Remember Melissa Ziegler? When the dust settled on the fiasco that left a South Knoxville sinkhole filled with toxic rubble from the old Coster Shop rail yard, she and Leslie Henderson were pointing fingers at each other, unsure who deserved blame for the improper dumping. The matter was settled out of court in Dec. 2005, and Henderson moved on to a Roane County position.

Ziegler now works for Wilbur Smith Associates, and she has been touring southeastern Tennessee [1] and southwestern North Carolina [2] trying to sell officials and residents on a new highway [3] bypassing Ocoee Gorge, part of the decades-old Corridor K [4] project of the Appalachian Regional Commission. The Southeast Industrial Development Association [5] hired Ziegler's firm.

Move over Road to Nowhere, here comes Corridor K!