According to the NCDOTs Final Environmental Impact Statement, the roughly 7 miles of I-26 Connector will consume somewhere between 93 and 110 acres of mostly low-income housing, yards, trees and green spaces. That is as much space as 70-83 football fields. It’s to be replaced by impervious, sterile, life-killing asphalt or concrete over which over a hundred thousand CO2-spewing monsters charge at 50+ mph every day. These are the facts that you come up with if you multiply the usual, 100-foot wide, six-lane freeway by the 7 miles that the Connector is supposed to encompass.

Not only will it consume much of the green space contained in the lower-income Burton Street and Emma communities, it will greatly decrease the acreage and serenity of one of the few unified, urban nature preserves in

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