I-69 in TN

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This was from another thread, but it was so off-topic there that I figured I would also post it here, where it's more topical:

Now, by the same token, is there a case for I-69 replacing I-155 and coming to a permanent terminus at I-55 in Hayti, MO, and never breathing a word of I-69 between there and Houston ever again? There absolutely is

I would say this absolutely should happen. There is no way TDOT is building anything south of Dyersburg anytime in the next several decades given their funding woes. I-69 isn't needed anyway between in Mississippi, Arkansas and Louisiana.