Why was there no Highway 107 bypass created?

Discussions and various plans for making the traffic through town better have been ongoing for over 20 years. The Southern Loop, an attempt to bypass the busy part of N.C. 107 that would have gone through the Cane Creek area, would have put Western Carolina University traffic towards Balsam.  Sylva businesses didn’t want the bypass because they didn’t want all the traffic to bypass their establishments.