January 10, 2009: Daily News-Record "Report: Congested I-81 On The Brink"
Submitted by VHSR on January 10, 2009 - 3:00am.
Rail News
An environmental advocacy group has listed the Interstate 81 corridor as one of the top "endangered regions" in the Southeast.
Earlier this week, the Southern Environmental Law Center released this year's top 10 list of places it considers "facing immediate, potentially irreversible threats" where "ecological, scenic, and cultural riches ... are at stake."
The center's lists include places from the Southern Appalachians to the South Atlantic.
The I-81 corridor and its scenic highways, Civil War battlefields, forests, and "miles of picturesque rural countryside," are threatened by increasing truck traffic and a possible expansion of the road they drive, the center said.