Not by-passed: Living in limbo in targeted Squirrel Ridge

Written By David McNair

Not by-passed: Living in limbo in targeted Squirrel Ridge

A few months after Bill Massie moved to 312 Squirrel Path in the 1980s, he picked up the daily newspaper and was stunned by what he saw: a four-lane highway was planned to roll right through his house. 

Now, 20 years later, the Western 29 Bypass still has not been built, and Massie's Squirrel Ridge neighborhood continues under a cloud. But as the Bypass seems less and less likely to materialize, the little neighborhood– that once even pleaded to be destroyed– may have the last laugh.

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