TDOT List Is a Question Mark (Tennessean/Sanchez)
Rising expenses, financial cuts may limit road projects...For almost three years, the bridge pier has
stood a lonely vigil on Interstate 40 in West Nashville, ready to support a soaring exit ramp that hasn't been built...
Smart Fix 40 Goes Green (WBIR-TV Knoxville)
The Tennessee Department of Transportation's signature color orange is changing-going "green." The
SmartFIX40 project includes a number of environmentally friendly aspects...
It's The End of I-40 As We Know It (Knoxville News-Sentinel/Jacobs, Starnbaugh)
SmartFIX40 closure takes effect today for motorists driving through downtown...About 100 workers this
morning closed the downtown section of Interstate 40 without a major problem...
Section of
I-40 Closed For Next 14 Months (WATE-TV Knoxville)
Tennessee Department of Transportation crews closed a nine-tenths of a mile section of Interstate 40
in downtown Knoxville late Wednesday night...
Interstate 40 Closed In Downtown Knoxville, Traffic Rerouted For a Year (WDEF-TV)
If you'll be traveling through Knoxville anytime in the next year, expect some major
delays...
Preparations For SmartFIX I-40 Shutdown (WVLT-TV Knoxville)
Chances are, your next trip through Knoxville will happen Thursday morning...
Outage Pulls The Plug on Memphis
International Airport (Comm.Appeal/Dudding)
Morning power problem causes delays, other headaches...A glitch that followed a scheduled outage at
Memphis International Airport forced the airport onto emergency power Tuesday morning,...
Power Restored at Memphis International Airport (WPTY-TV Memphis)
A terminal at Memphis International Airport was running on emergency power Wednesday morning, April
30, 2008...
Lights Back
On at Memphis Internatiional Airport (WREG-TV Memphis)
Passengers were left in the dark at the Memphis International Aiport on Wednesday
morning...
Appointments and Transitions (Business TN)
Darek Bell -- elected to the board of the Tennessee Infrastructure Alliance. He is
VP and partner at Bell and Associates Construction...
More
on Maria, and Her Daffodils and Redbuds (Oak Ridger)
Last week, we introduced the history of the daffodil flowers and rebud trees planted on the scenic
Pellissippi Parkway...
Major
Job News for Marion County (WRCB)
Some very good economic news could come to Marion County, Tennessee in the coming
weeks...
I-40
Construction Shutdown Begins in Knoxville (Associated Press/Mansfield)
So far, so good for the Interstate 40 reconstruction project through downtown Knoxville. At
12:01 a.m. Thursday, a mile section of 1960's vintage highway closed for a 14-month makeover...
One Traffic Snarl In An OK Debut (Knoxville News-Sentinel/Jacobs)
SmartFIX40 starts out as well as can be expected, officials say. Give yourself a pat on the
back, Knoxville...
TDOT Works to Dismantle
Bridges, Dig Up Ground (WATE-TV Knoxville)
Within three minutes of the closure of Interstate 40 through downtown Knoxville, 150 workers began on
the final phase of the SmartFIX 40 Project. "It was a flurry of activity...
SmartFIX40 Day 1 In Knoxville, Not Too Shabby (WVLT-TV Knoxville)
The main traffic problem Thursday morning was Hall of Fame Drive near I-40 where motorists waiting to
get off on I-40 backed up for several miles on I-40 westbound...
Traffic-light Tweaks Do The Trick (Knoxville News-Sentinel/Jacobs)
Snarl-free second morning seen along detour route...Massaging traffic signals along Hall of Fame
Drive helped move vehicles...
James White Pkwy Ramp To I-40 West Opens Two Weeks Early (WVLT-TV Knoxville)
East Tennessee drivers can once again get onto I-40 westbound from northbound James White
Parkway...
Tennessee Bill Would Limit Diversion of Road Funds (Land Line Magazine)
A Tennessee Senate panel has approved a bill intended to help protect road funds...
Parkway's 'MIssing Link' Could Be Completed by 2016 (Daily Times)
Great Smoky Mountains National Park Superintendent Dale Ditmanson said Friday that the 1.5-mile "missing link" section of
the Foothills Parkway in Blount County...
TDOT Puts Brakes on
Sango Road Traffic Light (Leaf Chronicle)
Study shows traffic flow doesn't justify stoplight...A traffic light still is not warranted at the convoluted intersection
of Sango Road and Martin Luther King Jr. Parkway...
It's Decided: Hwy.
127 North Project Will Use Current Route (Crossville Chronicle)
It's a decision area residents and government leaders have been waiting for almost nine years to
hear...
Toll Vote A Victory, Foes Say (Knoxville News-Sentinel/Ferrar)
But state will still proceed with road feasibility study...Opponents are claiming a victory in their
fight against an interstate toll road through Hardin Valley,...
TDOT, Knoxville Tweak Traffic Light Timing (WBIR-TV Knoxville)
Part of Interstate 40 shut down almost a week ago. Since then, drivers have found alternate routes
downtown, including city streets...
Residents Voice Concerns
About Proposed Toll Road (Tennessean/Hambles)
Residents hope Opposition to a toll bridge proposed to connect Davidson and Sumner counties may be
enought to keep the project from going forward...
Progress Apparent at SmartFIX40 Site (WBIR-TV Nashville)
Interstate 40 closed in downtown Knoxville a week ago Thursday...
Businesswoman Takes Sumner
Airport to Court Over Records (News-Examiner)
The agency that runs the Sumner County airport has won a $1 million state grant and wants an
additional $215,000 from county taxpayers to extend a runway and pay for other projects...
Metro Is Willing
to Consider Budgeting I-40 Ramp Lights (Tennessean)
PROBLEM: William Jean notes that there needs to be better lighting at the ramp from Donelson
Pike to go east on Interstate 40...
ACTION: The Tennessee Department of Transportation will pay 50 percent of interchange lighting...
Nashville Residents Oppose Toll
Bridge (Tennessean/Humbles)
Residents hope opposition to a toll bridge proposed to connect Davidson and Sumner counties may be
enough to keep project from going forward...
New Bridge on 48/13
In Early Planning Stages (Leaf Chronicle)
For Montgomery County residents living south of the Cumberland River, a new, bigger G.G. McClure
bridge on state Highway 48/13 reamains far down the funding pipeline...
Anderson Street Bridge May Open Today (Kingsport Times-News)
The long-anticipated opening of the new Anderson Street Bridge might happen this
morning,...
FedEx to Build New
Distribution Center Near TCRA (Bristol Herald-Courier)
Less than a year after announcing FedEx's plans to bring 175 jobs to Kingsport, Tenn., the company is
now looking to develop a site near the Tri-Cities Regional Airport...
Planners Push Streetcars, But
City Says Money is Scarce (Tennessean)
Before buses, Nashvillians who used mass transit rode the rails - ones embedded in the middle of the
city's thoroughfares...
Ed
Cole: Proposal Offers Tool To Fight Congestion (Tennessean)
Congestion on our highways has always been a major concern for local, state and federal transportation agaencies...
Editorial: Allow Hybrids Full Use of HOV Lanes, But Enforcement is Tricky (Tenn)
A proposal to allow hybrids or alternative-fuel vehicles to use the high-occupancy-vehicle lanes on the highways is an
excellent example of how the state should approach highway congestion...
Beth
Harwell: Bill Would Spur Move to Low-Emmission Cars (Tennessean)
In this ever-changing world, where technology now advanes at an astonishing rate, state legislatures are working to adapt to
the options they have regarding energy efficieny...
Ediotiral: It Could Be a Nightmare but Only If We Let It (Knoxville News-Sentinel)
SmartFIX40 started today. Interstate 40 shut down through downtown between Hall of Fame Drive and James White Parkway...
New Urgency Crucial For Mass Transit (Daily News Journal)
Gas in Tennessee is on its way to $4 a gallon by the summer, and $5 per gallon probably isn't far behind...
Editorial: Apocalypse?
Now? (Metro Pulse)
While the I-40 shutdown hasn't caused chaos, it does raise questions over the freeway's necessity...
Editorial: Critics May Laugh At Length, but Mass Transit is Serious (Tennessean)
There it sits, easy to ridicule, easy to scoff at, or curse. There sits the Clement Landport the odd-looking,...
Guest Columnist: Regional Rail Transit System Can Still Work (Tennessean)
A visionary has to be willing to risk ridicule as I have for my vision of regional rail transportation for Middle Tennessee...
Guest Columnist: Projects Like This One Create Outrage Fatigue (Tennessean)
Well, this is just too easy. The Tennessean asks me to writ eabout the boondoggle that is the Clement Landport and
certain phrases leap to mind:...
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