Confehr, Clint
Tennessee TRIBUNE, The
07-23-2003
A state transportation department meeting on a road widening project that
could demolish an African American family home and put five lanes of
traffic closer to dozens of other homes in Williamson County attracted 250
people this month when hardly anybody supported the project.
"The number of people here shows they don't want five lanes," said Eleanor
Bright who's lived along Hillsboro Road for decades. "And I certainly don't
want it because it will take my grandmother's house where a divorced mother
lives now," Bright said of her niece, Jean Reed, who lives within a couple
miles of Old Hickory Boulevard.
Ed Cole, chief of environment and planning of ...