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    Editor:

    I live on the west side of Sevierville. Many times I have been forced to wait for several changes of the traffic light where Chapman Highway crosses Forks of the River Parkway.

    The northbound traffic has to squeeze into a single lane and routinely blocks this intersection. This one lane of northbound traffic again causes needless congestion when it gets to the intersection just north of the river.

    The tourists persist in traveling north at the same turn they have used for years in the south end of town and ignore the many signs pointing them into the three northbound lanes leading to Interstate 40.

    This makes shopping in Sevierville an annoying task, and I am sure it costs business for Sevierville merchants.

    The southbound Parkway through Sevierville should be one way. The northbound Parkway through town should be one way. This would solve the problem for the tourist traffic and would bring hometown people back to the local businesses to shop.

    All this would take would be a few gallons of white paint to remark the lanes and a few minor physical changes to the intersection at the south end of Sevierville.

    Loy W. Jones

    Sevierville

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    comments (40)
    « to oldsore wrote on Friday, Nov 13 at 12:37 PM »
    you can carry on for months, and even years about Dollywood, and stuck on stupid. All my saved topix files prove that. So ironic that a stupid person calls others stupid!
    « mygoodness wrote on Wednesday, Nov 11 at 12:44 AM »
    that's what I want to know,... what does:

    "Democrats in trouble AGAIN......!

    Attorney General Buddy Caldwell has served a search warrant at the ACORN office at 2609 Canal Street, according to Tammi Arender Herring, a spokeswoman with the office.

    I never had sex with that woman!

    William Jefferson Clinton

    AND

    Boyd, your democrat has the unemployment up to 10.8%.

    The Biggest Mistake ever made in the history of this country now resides in the White House and he gets worse every day....Shades of Lyndon Johnson!

    AND

    Stupid, Liberal and Democrat. No more needs said.

    Conversation over!

    AND

    Appalachian stupidity at it finest. It is clear now why we are stuck on stupid with a White Cap mentality in Sevier County.

    They think political parties control the stupidity!

    That must be true though seeing what we have in the White House!"

    HAVE TO DO WITH TRAFFIC IN SEVIERVILLE?

    « Signmaker wrote on Monday, Nov 09 at 10:36 AM »
    What do the majority of these comments, seen below, have to do with Mr. Jones letter? Nothing. Let's try and stay on topic.
    « stupidity wrote on Friday, Nov 06 at 06:39 PM »
    "those weapons of mass destruction gotta be somewhere, maybe under here"

    George W Bush
    « stupidity wrote on Friday, Nov 06 at 04:16 PM »
    is that all you can come up with mikey boy?

    Complain some more about the local republican government. And remember, they are republicans,.... so funny

    And after all these years, you still blame poor ole' Boyd. :-)

    replying more frequent means you are getting agitated. SLow down, take a deep breath, and don't forget that blood pressure medecine.
    « Laughing wrote on Friday, Nov 06 at 01:42 PM »
    Boyd, your democrat has the unemployment up to 10.8%.

    The Biggest Mistake ever made in the history of this country now resides in the White House and he gets worse every day....Shades of Lyndon Johnson!
    « stupidity wrote on Friday, Nov 06 at 10:18 AM »
    as usual you can't answer a question, you evade them like bush did. You are extremely stupid, and arrogant. Stupid republican complaining about stupid republican leaders, and you don't see the irony. I bet even juuuuuuunior has more sense.
    « personal hate wrote on Friday, Nov 06 at 08:57 AM »
    And the white caps & blue bills have nothing to do with the traffic problem either. You have double standards mikey boy. You tell it the way you want it to be because you are full of hate and contempt. Personal hate venting is exactly what you are doing.I bet you wish this was topix forum so you could post your vile rude x rated remarks. Do your church members agree with your sick logic?
    « hotter rod wrote on Thursday, Nov 05 at 06:07 PM »
    Talk about stupidity, sheeple believed dubya's lie, and all this Iraq mess is dumped into Obama's lap, and people expect him to do something.

    White Caps were not stuck on stupid like you are. You have "STUCK ON STUPID" running through your mind 24/7, and you must think it's cute. All it does is identify you as the mayor of Kodak who is stuck on stupid with a white cap/blue bill fettish.

    You keep talking about the stupidity of our city officials, but you don't see the connection that they are also republicans. You purposely avoid all comments, and just interject some stupid childish quote. Grow up mikey boy.

    Jersey stupidity at it's finest.
    « who is hostile? wrote on Thursday, Nov 05 at 03:20 PM »
    Well, you shouldn't be so hostile. Get over your hate, it was junior's own fault anyway.hahaha
    « hostile wrote on Thursday, Nov 05 at 03:16 PM »
    Anyone who badmouths the area they live in like you do is the one who is hostile. You claim to be republican, yet you badmouth the republican leaders of the county. I don't work for the paper, I can't censor anyone, If I could, you would never be able to post anything.

    Rave on mikey boy.

    I rest my case.

    « Appalachians wrote on Thursday, Nov 05 at 12:44 PM »
    The Appalachian Mountain range extends from Georgia to Canada, coming very close to new jersey. And to discriminate, or demean people from a specific region is so childlike.

    People who hate an area as bad as you do just need to move.
    « unreel wrote on Thursday, Nov 05 at 12:25 PM »
    even blacks had slaves, and to try to indicate it was only southern democrats who owned slaves shows a lack of information.

    Also, not every single white cap or blue bill was born here, some moved here from other places, including jersey.
    « stoopidity wrote on Thursday, Nov 05 at 12:15 PM »
    well, you are a republican, and this is a republican ran city and county, so, my point is, you are putting down your own party, and you don't seem to know it.
    « so then wrote on Thursday, Nov 05 at 08:49 AM »
    We could make the battle of the white caps and blue bills a mandatory subject in school, but what impact on our youth do you suppose it would have? And even if anyone was interested, it's history. Yes, a person can learn from history, and hopefully take measures to avoid making the same mistakes in the future, but people don't take heed, EXAMPLE: Reagan, Bush Sr, and Bush jr twice,.... Even after disastrous results, loyal sheeple kept following those republicans. You claim to be a republican, yet you chastize them and call them vile names on topix forums. According to you, our republican city & county leaders are not fit to referee a dog fight. You must be proud of the Sevier County history the way you love to talk about it.
    « Don Williams wrote on Wednesday, Nov 04 at 11:29 PM »
    I think every person in Sevier County should know about it's wicked history and evil ways. They are documented history that can be read in any library or found on the internet>

    http://mach2.com/williams/index.php?t=1&c=2003-05-16
    « oh yes? wrote on Wednesday, Nov 04 at 07:59 PM »
    Well Mikey, what have you done to make things any better? Not many people even know what the White caps & blue bills was all about, and nobody alive today had anything to do with the actions of our forefathers. I think you are harboring hate, and using anything derrogatory about the county to vent your hate. As I have asked many times with no response,... why did you move here from Jersey if you hate it here? You are more than welcome to leave any time, and take your hate with you.

    You have nothing to say that is "WORTHY", and nobody cares about your personal angst and hate. Go see a good doctor.
    « some people wrote on Monday, Nov 02 at 07:37 AM »
    some people don't want the county to progress, and they keep bringing up the past that nobody alive today had anything to do with.
    « Reality Check wrote on Sunday, Nov 01 at 04:01 PM »
    Looking back at our history of the White Caps and Blue Bills we really have not progressed all that much. Sevier County still remains to be a place of faceless nameless cowards.
    « anonymous wrote on Saturday, Oct 31 at 03:04 PM »
    you must be mad because Temple is wheelin' and dealin' and getting rich while you look up big words to try to appear as smart. If stupidity was a crime, you would be serving multiple life sentences.

    Try to calm down and just roll with the flow Mikey boy, ... there is nothing you can do about it anyway.