...Atlanta's Interstate system to poor rural counties that were having trouble attracting industry because of their inadequate road systems. "There's no question in my mind that U.S. 82 has been one heck of a stimulus for our economic development...

...connectors would give an economic boost to isolated parts of Georgia that have been losing jobs, partly because of inadequate road systems, Mr. Stone said. "The poorest people in rural Georgia have been paying federal gas taxes to build freeways...