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Official Highway To Nowhere Thread

weewon

Posted 3:54 pm, 08/27/2015

New lanes are necessary mainly due to the idiots who drive 35 - 40 mph from 421 to west jeff.

averagebear

Posted 12:57 pm, 08/27/2015

The new road will definitely be a major selling point for any other type of manufacturing operations to move into Ashe. If the road isn't built now, you'll be asking "why didn't we build that road" in another ten years when all the jobs go elsewhere. And it all doesn't have to be manufacturing jobs. There are other jobs that the trailer park crowd can do as well, such as working in a distribution center. Good, four lane roads would be very important in that respect. And don't forget, with two lanes going one way into Ashe, that'll allow outsiders to get into your community to change things in half the time!

Tom L.

Posted 11:23 am, 08/27/2015

I'm sure the jobs will nowhere match the number of unemployed....

underdog2

Posted 6:40 pm, 08/26/2015

Little timmmey.

Heels09

Posted 3:14 pm, 08/26/2015

You are already wrong. GE and AEV is expanding. Those are new jobs.

Tom L.

Posted 3:06 pm, 08/26/2015

Face it Heels, no jobs are coming back to Ashe!!!!

LMAO Pup, you only wish!!!

underdog2

Posted 1:54 pm, 08/26/2015

Adams should be having him to piss in a cup soon.

Heels09

Posted 12:53 pm, 08/26/2015

Against my better judgement...


If you are against the project, then what is your solution to bring jobs to Ashe?

Tom L.

Posted 12:37 pm, 08/26/2015

LMAO, i'm rather happy myself

Basking

Posted 12:32 pm, 08/26/2015

So you want more money and more jobs to leave. Maybe eventually everyone can live like you and you won't have to feel bad about not having as much as other people

Tom L.

Posted 12:28 pm, 08/26/2015

Christmas Trees... the day they are all gone will be a blessing!!!

Heels09

Posted 8:39 am, 08/26/2015

Like my Dad said, most of Ashe was against electricity as well. Its just in their blood to oppose anything new.

Basking

Posted 7:58 am, 08/26/2015

I'm amazed at people complaining about getting a better road. How ignorant and angry are some of Ashe county? Unbelievable.

CooperFarms

Posted 7:03 am, 08/26/2015

The road will be an improvement for the local people that have to drive it every day.

Heels09

Posted 5:33 am, 08/26/2015

JR, because we did nothing years ago is no excuse for not supporting improvement. We still have an economy that will benefit. GE, AEV, Christmas trees.... Whether the people like the new downtown or not, it definitely a draw on its own. While I agree the road will not bring new tourism, it will definitely go a long way to promote the current draws of Ashe.

We can cry over the past or we can look towards the future.

jrscott295

Posted 4:54 am, 08/26/2015

If the road had been built 10 years ago it might of helped but largely today it won't help. The businesses that left aren't coming back. New businesses will not find us more attractive to locate to (businesses do not like to move to impoverished areas). Tourists will be no more inclined to visit us after it's completed than before because we lack any real investment in tourist industries.

Every time something has come up to perhaps incentivize more tourism like a ski slope or some other attraction a bunch of nitwits gets together and kills it. The gallery and other shops in West Jefferson you can find dozens of those scattered throughout the Appalachian Mountains. They in themselves are not draws.

Heels09

Posted 11:54 am, 08/25/2015

We have mentioned it before, those that we need in leadership positions will not have anything to do with it or can't get elected because they are not a puppet for the establishment. . So its an endless circle of mediocrity.

Tom L.

Posted 11:35 am, 08/25/2015

Don't hold your breath on that...

karmasab

Posted 11:23 am, 08/25/2015

seriously? Ashe county has ALWAYS been afraid of change! Maybe when all the old farts die out of office and some new blood is breathed back into the government, things might change!

Heels09

Posted 9:45 am, 08/25/2015

Its pointless to argue, but I will say that times have changed and the people of Ashe County are still living in the past. Our best and brightest leave right after graduation and never have anything to come back to. But it was good enough for my pappy and grand pappy it will be good enough for them. Our people have such ignorant logic.


The problems in Ashe County have been made by the failure to adapt to the rest of the world. I think Dog mentioned it, the whole county freaked out over 4 way stop signs. The people of Ashe is and always has been afraid of change.

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