If we allow a huge East Coast bypass to be built into our Mountain Valley topography, the impacts will be tremendous.
One thing that's clear is that it's going to be tricky to find the resources to do this.
I know the General Assembly is struggling over the money end of it now. And the governor seems to be more and more convinced in his public pronouncements that tolling a current-day interstate as opposed to new construction is problematic because of the diversion it causes.
All of the proposals being talked about with respect to 81 are expensive. It's a question of how we want to invent our future.
