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James White I-40 Ramp Ready to Open (Knoxville
News-Sentinel/Jacobs)
New connection will replace one of the state's worst... Work crews on Wednesday will open the
new ramp to westbound Interstate 40...
Businesses Thankful For Road Work Respite (Chatt. Times
Free-Press/Hightower)
Temporarily halting construction at the Exit 20 overpass on Interstate 75 is keeping some
local businesses from financial ruin, manager said...
Drop In Gas Tax Collections May Affect Road Projects (Mountain
Press)
With Tennesseans, like all Americans, driving less as gas prices skyrocket, the state's
gasoline tax revenues are falling...
Scoping Out The Competition (WRCB)
We went to Huntsville Monday to have a look at some of Chattanooga's competition for the new
Volkswagen plant...
Jim Cobb Refutes "Negative Campaign Remarks"
(Chattanoogan.com)
Turning to other issues that his opponent is running on, Rep. Cobb addressed the proposed
bridge across the Tennessee River in North Hamilton County connecting Soddy Daisy with Harrison...
Center Hill Dam Work Will Help Fish, Their Prey
(Tennessean/Paine)
Gate will stop leak, increase oxygen mixing with water...Water spurting out of the hillside
beside Center Hill Dam has been a familiar sight...
Grant Could Help Fund Grundy-South Pittsburg Connection
(TFP/Benton)
A $500,000 grant could help forge a water link between the Tennessee River at South Pittsburg
and Monteagle and Tracy City on the Cumberland Plateau,...
TDOT Halts Road Construction (Nashville Business Journal)
Tennesseans hitting the road during the July 4 holiday weekend will not be hindered by road
construction...
Planner Ed Cole Says TDOT Changing With Fuel Costs (Times
Free-Press/Hightower)
Higher gas prices have caused the Tennessee Department of Transportation to refocus its
thinking on providing transportation,...
Funding, Culture Could Derail Dream of Rail Service (Knoxville News
Sentinel)
Asked to speculate about passenger rail as an alternative for a nation dealing with high
transportation costs, Pete Claussen, chairman of Gulf & Ohio Railways Inc.,...
Tenn. Airports To Get Grants (Jackson Sun)
Federal, state grants will total more than $22 million...Twenty-one Tennessee Airports -
including four in rural West Tennessee...
Tennessee Connects Wilderness Reserves (Tennessean)
The web of sewer lines, roads and electrical lines isn't the only infrastructure that deserves
attention, according to Nashville Conservationist Kathleen Williams...
Airport Grants Spread Funds Across Tenn. (Associated
Press)
Federal and state grants totaling more than $22 million have been approved for 21 airports
across Tennessee...
Museum Receives Grant From
State (Sparta
Expositor)
White County will be receiving more than $30,000 from the Appalachian Regional Commission in
grant money to help fund a museum that will be located in the old library building on South Main Street...
State To Inspect Highway Signs In Wake of Fall (Associated
Press)
The Tennessee Department of Transportation will begin inspecting 600 highway signs across the
state like the one that fell Monday onto Interstate 65 near a busy shopping mall...
City Council Moving Ahead With Downtown Master Plan (Crossville
Chronicle)
The Crossville City Council will meet for their regular July monthly meeting Tuesday and will
consider again the hiring of a highly experienced engineering firm to begin working on a master plan for improvements to Crossville's downtown
area...
Corps Lets Contract to Dredge New Riverport (AP)
The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers has awarded a contract to dredge an oxbow of the Mississippi
River for a new riverport facility...
TDOT Inspects Signs (Knoxville News-Sentinel/Jacobs)
After one falls in Nashville, officials test for cracks...Inspections of cantilever signs
statewide begun Wednesday after a failed structure toppled onto a Nashville interstate...
TDOT Removes Weakened Interstate Sign in Kingsport
(Times-News)
A sign over Interstate 26 was removed Wednesday by state inspectors after they found it was
damaged...
TDOT To Inpsect 678 Signs After Cool Springs Collapse
(Tennessean/Giordano)
After a massive sign toppled onto the southbound lanes of Interstate 65 Monday, the Tennessee
Department of Transportation is developing inspection lists for all other similarly designed signs in th state...
State To Take Close Look At Highway Sign Safety (WTVF-TV
Nashville)
The State is getting ready to take a close look at the highway signs like the one that fell on
I-65 Monday...The giant sign fell onto the Interstate near an exit which lead to the Cool Springs Galleria...
Interstate Signs Are Inspected For Safety In The Volunteer State
(WJHL-TV)
The Tennessee Department of Transportation began inspecting Interstate signs on Wednesday just
two days after one of them fell onto Interstate 65 south of Nashville...
SmartFIX 40 Closes Some Downtown Knoxville Roads (WATE-TV
Knoxville)
Some heavily traveled roads in downtown Knoxville will close temporarily for SmartFIX
40project construction...
City, Railroad Will Split $1M Sinkhole Repair (Commercial
Appeal)
The city of Memphis and Canadian National Railway have agreed to share the estimated $1
million bill to repair a cavernous sinkhole at Central Station that has hindered Amtrak service since April...
Taking Notes on Tennessee's Test Run (Charleston, SC Post
Observer)
Nashville's Music City Star, a commuter train similar to one proposed for the Charleston area,
offers a cautionary tale for rail supporters here...
Center Hill Dam Work Will Continue in August (AP)
Repair work on Center Hill Dam will continue in August after a setback this week. Workers were
unable to complete installation of a gate at the base of the dam Tuesday because a crane needed more cable...
Airport Gains Nearly Half-Million Grant (State Gazette)
The Dyersburg Regional Airport has been approved for a grant totaling $455,000 from the
Tennessee Department of Transportation's Aeronautics Division to replace its navigational lighting system...
Tennessee Issues Notices of Violation on Sewer Leaks (Times
Free-Press/Davis)
State regulators have issued a notice of violation to the city for higher-than-acceptable E.
coli bacteria levels on Merriam Street in North Chattanooga...
Illegal Levee May Bring Fines (Tennessean/Paine)
TWRA told to plan restoration of land...Federal environmental officials have ordered the
state's wildlife agency to submit a plan by early August to restore the land where it built a gated levee to keep a West Tennessee swamp flooded each
winter for duck hunting...
No Signs of Danger From Road Signs (Chattanooga Times
Free-Press/Faure)
Tennessee Department of Transportation bridge inspection crews found no problems with overhead
road signs in Hamilton County after a sing fell onto an interstate earlier this week...
Sign Inspections Underway in Tennessee Valley (WRCB-TV
Chattanooga)
Tennessee Department of Transportation crews are inspecting more than 600 road signs statewide
to prevent them from collapsing onto local highways...
Center Hill Dam Work Rescheduled Aug. 4 (Tennessean/Paine)
Crane cables that are too short have delayed repairs to Center Hill Dam that were scheduled
for this week...
New Bridge Solves An Old Problem (Bristol Herald-Courier)
The recent opening of the new Anderson Street Bridge over the railroad has caused me to
remember that Bristol has had problems with railroad crossings since near the beginning of her existence...
TDOT to Conduct Signalization Studies (Elk Valley Times)
The Tennessee Department of Transportation (TDOT) will conduct studies into whether traffic
signals can be replaced in front of Goodman Mfg. and at the intersection of the Old Huntsville Highway and Highway 110 at Skinem...
Brentwood I-65 Sign Taken Down (Tennessean/Medved)
Damage found in inspection after Cool Springs sign collapsed earlier this month...State
workers took down a sign on Interstate 65 near Old Hickory Boulevard at Brentwood on Monday after an inspection spurred by the collapse of a similar
sign near Cool Springs last week...
TDOT Crews Remove I-65 Sign (WKRN-TV Nashville)
Officials with the Tennessee Department of Transportation removed a sign in the southbound
lanes of Interstate 65, just before Old Hickory Boulevard Monday afternoon...
Govs Turn to Fixing Infrastructure (Stateline)
Improving the nation's crumbling bridges, roads, and sewage systems is a $1.6 trillion problem
that governors intend to address in the next year...
Kentucky:
Kentucky's State Gas Tax
Increases (WPSD)
Kentucky's state gasoline tax went up one and a half cents on Tuesday. The Kentucky
Transportation Cabinet estimates they'll get an extra thirty million dollars a year for every penny increase in the gas tax...
Mark Norris: Without Plates, Arts, Roads Would Suffer
(Tennessean)
Gov. Phil Bredesen is
grousing about license plates again. He should forget about
it...
The Need for Speed (Wall Street Journal)
Florida Congressman John Mica has a radical idea: He wants to develop high-speed rail service
between New York and Washington, D.C...
The Cracks Are Showing (The Economist)
America's tradition of bold national projects has dwindled. With the country's infrastructure
crumbling, it is time to revive it - ...
Growth Is Good For City (Clarksville Leaf Chronicle)
Clarksville keeps chugging along. Other metro areas may have hit an economic speed bump, but
Clarksville is growing...
Virginia: Road Funding Stuck In Neutral? (Bristol
Herald-Courier)
Virginia lawmakers return to Richmond on Wednesday to wrestle once again with the state's
transportation conundrum...
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