Debate Over Interstate Connecting Mexico, Canada
Some residents in Indiana, Kentucky and Tennessee are skeptical about the impact of a new highway that would stretch from Canada to Mexico.
Interstate 69 would be elongated to cut through the three states and travel all the way through Texas.
Today, I-69 is a short ribbon that starts at the Canadian border and ends in Indianapolis.
Jim Prather, who owns a restaurant in west Tennessee, says he doesn’t think the highway would be much of a boon to the economy in the two states.
Jim Newland, leader of a group that opposes the plan, estimates the total earmarks for I-69 at more than $400-million through fiscal 2009.
The 86-year-old Newland has spent more than a decade battling highway opponents in his home state of Indiana, where I-69 would rip through long stretches of farmland and Amish country.
But Kentucky and Tennessee have felt little of that acrimony.
Officials say the project could take up to 20 years to complete.
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