SMOKIES HOLDS PUBLIC MEETINGS TODAY ON ROAD PROJECTS [NEWFOUND GAP ROAD AND GATLINBURG BYPASS]: "Great Smoky Mountains National Park is holding public meetings for a project update on current and future roadwork plans for Newfound Gap Road and the Gatlinburg Bypass.... The meetings will be... Monday, Aug. 5, from 5:30-6:30 p.m. at the Sugarlands Visitor Center Training Room, near Gatlinburg, Tenn., and on Tuesday, Aug. 6, from 5:30-6:30 p.m. at the Oconaluftee Administrative Building near Cherokee in North Carolina. The discussion will include details related to roadway resurfacing, drainage system improvements, stone-wall masonry rehabilitation, and slope stabilization in efforts to make these well-traveled roadways sustainable for continued vehicular travel by the 9 million visitors each year who come to the Smokies.... During the meetings park staff will provide information regarding four rehabilitation projects taking place in 2013 through 2016 including current work along 6.1 miles of Newfound Gap Road near Chimney’s Picnic Area south towards Newfound Gap and future projects including resurfacing of the Gatlinburg Bypass, slope stabilization along Newfound Gap Road near the Deep Creek trailhead, and roadway rehabilitation along Newfound Gap Road from Chimney’s Picnic Area north to Gatlinburg, Tenn. " blogs2.citizen-times/outdoors/2013/08/05/smokies-holds-public-meetings-on-roadwork-projects/
Posted on: Tue, 06 Aug 2013 12:22:53 +0000
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