now we've studied the situation carefully and believe sincerely that our recommendation is in the best interest of the most streets seeing our signs and stopping what we need is more people driving down main street not less if you don't have traffic you don't have business take me for example i got four men working for me and they've got families to feed if i don't get business those families don't eat so that's why i say speaking for the chamber of commerce if there's any highway improving to be done let's improve the roads that bring more people in jack you wish to say something i'm jack connor i'm a businessman too i'd like to say a few words as an individual backing up what bob harris just got through sam my family's been around connersville a long time my grandfather started this town the rest of us connor's of help to grow i think it's the best little town in the state this town was made what it is because of the highway running through it i don't think anybody can deny that route one ten brought people into town to shop and to market their farm good course none of us ever got rich but most of us are right comfortable now the state comes along and wants to build a bigger and better route one hundred ten and instead of bringing it through connersville where it'll do the most good they want to go chopping up a lot of farmland outside of the town to fix it so that people won't have to come to comment well i say that's wrong i say the road should come through town the way it's always done can't use when the road he does use needs fixing so bad now you're planning to put this big new superhighway smack dab through my farm so those folks can get from one side of the county to the other ten will be able to get on a new highway though by driving up a short way down route one thirty four i suppose i could do that and that's part of what's griping me i don't see why i should have to drive two to three miles out of my way down a dusty road for a chat polls to get out of a new road that runs not more than two hundred yards from my house well i don't blame you for complaining about one thirty four but i can tell you what's on our federal aid secondary road list and very shortly it'll be improved well i had some good news but i still say it's wrong to take a man's farmland for a road he can't use taking the hardest part of being a highway engineer is explaining to people why we have to take their land for a new highway believe me where the first what method we must inconvenience many good people but it's our job only plan new highways to try to do the most good for the most people at the least cost and inconvenience as i said before the state believes a bypass around connersville is in the best interests of the most people but it seems to me mr jacobson that there's too much thought being given to other people what about us right here in connersville maybe i can help answer that question my name's henry loomis editor of connersville courier but i'm speaking as chairman of the traffic improvement council which mayor spencer foremast year out first i'd like to say that our group agrees with the state's recommendations now the improvements proposed for present route one ten through connersville fit in perfectly with the mass street  spilled and we feel there are some very good reasons why this bypass will be of great interest to all of us now you've already heard some of them from mr jacobs but there are others now do any of you realize that a controlled access highway through connersville would mean a barrier dividing the town in half the traffic improvement council has studied similar situations in other towns and we feel that the economic development of connersville will be stimulated by this proposed bypass and the business will actually increase that and rate by keeping people away from town yes or jack exactly by keeping those out who didn't plan the stop here congestion which is already choking us to death now if we can get rid of excess traffic we'll find that connersville can take a deep breath again and people who want to shop here will and the lack of congestion will make others want to come and they'll be the ones who will drive by your sign that's all fine and dandy for you people in town but what about our farmers well i'd say that a new highway could expand your food market potential both to the north and south now you probably saw the the economic development is likely to take place along the new bypass route other cities are found at industry tennis are located along a good highway outside of town the land values go up people move to new suburban homes where they can drive to work in a short time mr jacobson yes mayor do you have any specific evidence where such development could take place well it's already happening along route one twenty eight that's a come fragile highway around boston and the new york thruway the gulf freeway and he was done and then another place in california of course we can't guarantee it'll happen here but there are plenty of examples to show what could happen and that would have an effect on the property of everyone along the highway including yours mr k that's a long time proposition right now i'm a farmer and i still want to know why you want my land for your road when you could follow the president right away on land the state already owns but because we feel we must now all of our studies have shown that you're a land of the best place for the bypass to go then you better figure out a way for me to get my sixty had a cows back from the east pasture to the barn for milk than was that roadblock on the way because if you don't there going to be a lot of awful hungry is being held to invite any new information and points of view concerning the economic effect of our recommendation a record of being kept of your comments that will be thoroughly reviewed before we can take any action then someone will consider what i say about the bypass yes they will then i'm still against it anything as that after hearing some of the arguments against the new highway proposal i would like to say just one thing well i'm just amazed at the number of people here who seem to be thinking only about themselves but isn't there a lot more to it than that but i'm the school teacher i i work all day with children and they are your children so instead of thinking of just what this new road and and all the thousands of roads just like it are going to need to you shouldn't you give some thought as to what they all mean to your children and your children will have a better country to live in the because of these new roads will there be able to drive anywhere safely even from coast to coast without fear of in front of them and and without fear of accidents because the people that are planning and building these new roads or are conforming to standard structures of controlled access and and wider pavements more lanes and wider shoulders and well all the things that mr jacobson's film talked about this highway means your children will be able to lead better lives in towns and cities that have had a chance to expand and to grow from all that some people have said here today you'd think that connersville would just curl up and die if the highway bypasses the town well it seems to me we're just being blind to the facts just as we're being blind to our children's future can't you see that this highway means a whole new way of life for the children and a way of life that we have a chance to help plan and and to build well i think that the least we owe the children is the best and the safest life we can give them and i think that we owe them the right to live long enough to enjoy that life thank you very much ms ross i was there anyone else so and right and we'll miss again i was about ready to give a detail report on the master street highway plan to convince this group that the state's proposal is going to help us not hurt us and so ladies and gentlemen it appears congress bill is joining the long list of cities and towns across the nation already benefiting from the highway program