[DJ88]

I have traveled that area many, many times...it has got to be THE WORST traffic area in any state..there is NEVER a time they are not doing construction, and it's ALWAYS dangerous.

Do you remember that big huge pile up in TN about 10 years ago or so? It was HORRIBLE.

BTW..just some trivia for you..."Ringgold", GA is famous for it's little "Marriage Chapel"...(gold ring, "Ringgold"). That's where Dolly Parton (I believe it was her) got married. ;-)

[Brookhaven]

I have traveled that area many, many times...it has got to be THE WORST traffic area in any state..there is NEVER a time they are not doing construction, and it's ALWAYS dangerous.

Can't disagree with that. It seems no matter how much they widen the interstate along that stretch, it just isn't enough. It also seems to have more trucks using it than any other stretch of interstate I can th ink of.

Another bad stretch is 75 after Knoxville when it goes over the mountains. Not too crowded, but any type of bad weather (especially when it fogs up, which is often) makes it really bad.

[Wright is right!]

"BTW..just some trivia for you..."Ringgold", GA is famous for it's little "Marriage Chapel"...(gold ring, "Ringgold"). That's where Dolly Parton (I believe it was her) got married. ;-)"

Ringgold didn't gain its fame for Parton's nuptuals there - but rather for its extremely lenient policy of allowing very very very young couples to wed with a minimum of such ugly details as "parental consent" and red tape. Lots of then-mid-teens got married in Ringgold, and it didn't matter what state you lived in. Instant license, hit the chapel, pay the parson, and you're off to the races. If you got married in Ringgold, it was usually because you were too young to get married anywhere else.

Uniform state laws changed all that, of course, but GA still has the lowest age-of-consent laws if I'm not mistaken.

Michael