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Local Businesses Hold Out Hope Highway 107 Won’t Expand In Jackson County


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Plans to expand Highway 107 through Sylva have been in the works for more than 10 years . As the decade comes to a close, some business owners still hope the expansion won’t happen. Carl Queen has lived in Sylva since the 1970s. “Traffic was so light in the 60s and early 70s that kids would actually play ball in the street,” says Queen, who attended this week’s public meeting on the road. Now almost 35,000 vehicles drive the corridor daily, according to North Carolina Department of
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