Well besides the fact that it's in the middle of a National Park? But let's say they allow them to build the road? You planning on paying for it? Because the families aren't going to pony up $600 million to do it.
Well that's not the point, a road was promised, by FDR and then Secretary of the Interior, Harold Ickes.
But I forgot, you like nancy pelosi and heath shuler, know what is better for the displaced families of Swain county, nevermind.
"...the families aren't going to pony up $600 million..."
How much more should the families have to pay? They gave their ancestral homes, their inheritances, their sons, brothers, fathers, and sweethearts to World War II. If not for WWII, none of this would ever have happened.
Many of the families were given so little for their hundreds of acres of land that they could not pay a decent down payment on an acre or two of land elsewhere. (Their land was considered isolated mountain land and not worth much to the federal evaluators.)
In the southern Appalachians, Swain County, it is the custom to visit graves of loved ones, decorate with flowers and have a religious service. This is still important in the culture of Swain County people and those who had to move out of Swain County to find a place to live.
These families have given enough. It is time for the federal government to pony up to the agreement.