I-69

Hambone · Postby **Hambone** » Fri Jul 19, 2002 12:33 pm

What are the proposed routes as I69 comes through Tunica County and heads south?

Postby **judge jb** » Fri Jul 19, 2002 5:30 pm

those poor people of Tunica wished for so much, JUST BE CAREFUL OF WHAT YOU WISH FOR.... i kinda like being on the poor undeveloped land myself....

judge jb

Delta Duck · Postby **Delta Duck** » Fri Jul 19, 2002 11:59 pm

Went to the new interstate I69 project meeting last night. Possible of 3 routes coming through Tunica county. All 3 routes will take out alot of duck habitat. I do not know how much it will affect south down to Benoit.

Doc & Nash · Postby **Doc & Nash** » Sat Jul 20, 2002 6:23 am

I hate to see the wildlife habitat destroyed, but Tunica needs the Interstate to resolve some of the casino traffic.

Postby **judge jb** » Sat Jul 20, 2002 6:43 pm

i can see it now, " DUCK HUNTING OBSOLETE IN TUNICA CO. BUT AIN'T THE TRAFFIC MOVING SMOOTH".....

judge jb

Doc & Nash · Postby **Doc & Nash** » Sat Jul 20, 2002 8:44 pm

Ten years ago the headline were "Tunica County School system in Trouble due to no funds. The Casino are the best thing that ever happened to Tunica. The funds that they generate have turned the county around.

Again I hate that it is being done at the expense of wildlife habitat, but which would you perfer?

Anatidae · Postby **Anatidae** » Sat Jul 20, 2002 8:55 pm

Screw the Casino! [img]images/smiles/icon_razz.gif[/img]

Doc & Nash · Postby **Doc & Nash** » Sun Jul 21, 2002 5:46 pm

Sounds like Anatidae left a little more in Tunica than orginally planned.

Anatidae · Postby **Anatidae** » Sun Jul 21, 2002 6:08 pm

Nope......'never been there. Casinos can be built anytime and relatively quick. Restoring habitat isn't so easy...... and in some cases, can never be restored once it's GONE! Too many acres of wetlands have been destroyed in the name of'PROGRESS'. I-69 would be a step backwards (in my view)......and just shows how desperate politicians ARE, in this attempt to generate 'revenue' for the state. 'FOOLS', I say!

Other than that, I'm not one to pursue 'get rich, quick' schemes such as gambling. I prefer to make money the old-fashioned way........I married it! [img]images/smiles/icon_biggrin.gif[/img]

[ July 22, 2002: Message edited by: Anatidae ]

00duck · Postby **00duck** » Mon Jul 22, 2002 12:03 pm

i-69 is not for the casino's its for linking north and canada to the south mexico all for and in the name of trade to create more jobs you have'nt forgotten nafta i really think it's for the exspress shipment of taco snappers cheap labor ! to the north but the one thing in the delta the already bankrupt small towns like clarkesdale shelby mound bayou merigold and so on when your on this road you don't stop to eat /buy gas /shop for anything and that is all that some of these towns have left now tunica the town is going to be bypassed could be by 2 miles al the way up to 6 miles away from them they have used funds from the casinos to fix up downtown and build a arena and even a museuem but when they get bypassed by this wounderful economic road the only place people will go/ will be to the casinos they will be dying to win and want even think about anything but getting to the casinos and when they leave they will be to broke to stop and shop because they will need every penny they have left to pay for gas home the people of the town of tunica had better think long and hard if they have any choice in the matter of the exits they get and how close to town that they will be i personally think white oak road would be the best route with exits at white oakand 61 and either joesphine or just to the south of it because if it goes any further out the town will lose cause once its built its over

CaptnT · Postby **CaptnT** » Tue Jul 23, 2002 8:04 am

This is a pretty good website regarding the proposed I-69 route.

I-69

Here's another:

High priority highway projects

I just did a marketing survey for a hotel and a Cracker Barrel in Olive Branch, so I had the info handy.

Hammer · Postby **Hammer** » Wed Jul 24, 2002 5:39 pm

You boys hit another one of my nerves...

Look at the route of I-69...It parallels I-55 for over a hundred miles...Talk about a waste of taxpayer dollars!

It would have made a lot more sense to run the route out of Missouri into Little Rock where it could connect with an already interstate grade highway that runs from Little Rock to Pine Bluff...I-69 could then go from Pine Bluff over to Shreveport and then down into Texas...

That was the original plan but it was changed by Trent Lott so Mississippi would "benefit"...But what is the cost?

The last thing Memphis needs is another highway running through there since it is already a clusterquack of roads up there...

Then there is the added financial cost of adding several hundred miles to the road route plus the environmental cost will be very, very high in terms of Delta bottomlands that are affected in both MS and ARK...

I used to hunt deer near Robinsville in the early 1980s...It was a wildlife paradise...

Now it is a gold chain, chain smoking, retired truck driver/army/union worker paradise...Up to this point, I could deal with it, but I-69 is going too far...

Is there anything we can do about the route or is it too late?

HAMMER

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