WNCA isn't pouring the champagne yet, but members are excited about recent developments in the Corridor K Project, a key issue that WNCA,WaysSouth, the Southern Environmental Law Center and the North Carolina Sierra Club Chapter have been working on for years.

We are told that the Departments of Transportation in both North Carolina and Tennessee are now studying, among other options, ways to complete the Corridor K project between Chattanooga and Asheville by improving existing roads instead of building stretches of new four-lane highway through mostly new terrain, a proposal which has drawn regionwide opposition from WNCA members and allies for years.  WNCA has been a supporting member of WaysSouth since its inception, and our long-time Steering Committee Member Aurelia Stone of Murphy, chairs the Corridor K Committee for WaysSouth. 

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