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Reply to "Will Florence Mall survive?"

I'm not trying to place the blame on the Mayor or all the responsibility for stopping mall failure on local government but the local government does have most ability to enhance a business environment for future investiment or attraction of industry.  When Hillshire Farms left the former Jimmy Dean location here it, along with other closings such as the Paper Plant really put a hurt on the area and I'm hoping with the Trump Administration and promised tax incentives that possibly there might be a chance to attract future businesses and industry.

I, too, had heard about an East/West Interstate through the area and while I have to plead ignorance as to the current status of that dream/vision I have heard that an alternative east/west corridor was in the works by the State of Tennessee by creating a semi interstate type road using an enhanced and improved Highway 64 from Memphis across to intersect with Interstate 24 by insuring it's 4 lane all the way, at least that is what I have heard since moving here years ago.  

As for traffic around the area while the engineering of it is horrible compared to Atlanta and it's surrounding areas the worst traffic in this are beats the best in many areas of Atlanta and it's suburbs.  As far as Traffic engineering, my opinion only mind you, Fort Wayne, Indiana, had the best traffic engineering of any city of any size in the way they created and engineered one way roads coordinating and syncing them with their traffic light system downtown.  The way they had it engineered, regardless of whether you were going east or west through the town, in all but the worst traffic times, you would be Guarnteed to only be stopped by one traffic light and then you would be insured that no other light would stop you given normal traffic volumes and no emergency vehicle control of the traffic lights. 


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