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Twin-bore I-240 highway tunnel through Beaucatcher Mountain east of downtown, completed 1981. Originally proposed as an open cut that would have sliced through the mountain and threatened Zealandia mansion; saved as a tunnel after the Beaucatcher Mountain Defense Association mobilized in the late 1970s — one of Asheville's defining preservation fights.
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- ·Both bores carry I-240.
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