PWater Grants Aid Meigs, McMinn (Times-Free Press/Clayton)
DECATUR, Tenn. -- Nearly $1 million in grant money will pay to extend water
lines and bring municipal water to homes in McMinn and Meigs counties...
Regional Group of East Tenn. Counties Learning How to Work
Together (Knox. News)
To understand the promises and pitfalls of regionalism, consider the case
of a proposal for a wastewater treatment plant near Morristown...
Blalock & Sons Lays
off Employees, Citing Slowdown in State
Road Contracts (The Mountain Press)
A large number of employees have been laid off from local contractor
Blalock & Sons, and those workers may have trouble finding work with the company again...
Tennessee DOT Fixing Potential Future Sinkhole on 11E (WVLT
TV Knoxville)
If you're headed into Jefferson County on 11E be prepared for a slowdown,
There's a big hole in the road on 11E...
Sinkhole Repair on 11E to Continue
(WBIR-TV Knoxville)
A sinkhole spreading under Highway 11E may be a bigger project than first
thought...
New Bridges are
Clarksville's Gift (Tennessean/Snyder)
Clarksville is about to get a huge Christmas gift, courtesy of the
Tennessee Department of Transportation. It won't fit under any tree,...
TDOT and Environmental Officials Agree to
Work Together (Associated Press)
The state agency responsible for building roads and the one charged with
safeguarding the environment have signed an agreement to coordinate transportation projects...
Hwy. 11E Repairs Continue; Another Problem Delays Project (WVLT-TV Knoxville)
What was originally scheduled to be routine roadwork on a depression in the
roadway has turned into a bit larger of a project in Jefferson City, Tennessee...
Lower Water for Wolf Creek Dam Repair Likely
to Harm Environment (AP/Loller)
The environmental impact of lowering the water in Lake Cumberland to repair
the Wolf Creek Dam may be significant, according to a new report,...
Bredesen Announces
CDBG Grant for Mountain City (Bristol Herald-Courier)
Gov. Phil Bredesen and Economic and Community Development Commissioner
Matthew Kisber recently approved a $500,000 community development block grant...
TDOT Shows Ideas for
Cleveland Interchanges (Times Free-Press/Higgins)
Four interchange options at Interstate 75 exit 20 and four more for a
proposed interchange on the U.S. Highway 64 bypass,...
Park Bridge Closing for Four Months of Renovation Work (Knoxville News-Sentinel)
State transportation officials are closing the historic Cumberland Mountain
State Park Bridge for several months of repairs...
Airport Needs New
Terminal (Clarksville Leaf Chronicle)
Mayor Johnny Piper is right on target with his complaints about the old
terminal building at Outlaw Field...
TDOT Launches New "Smart Commute"
Web Site (WTVF)
Wednesday, the Tennessee Department of Transportation launched the
"Tennessee Smart Commute" Web site,...
'Half of our water is gone' (Shelbyville Times-Gazette)
Normandy Reservoir is now at only half of its capacity and area officials
are looking at drawing up an emergency plan to cope with the dwindling supply...
TDOT Finishes First Stand-Alone Noise
Project on Interstate (Associated Press)
State transportation officials have completed the first stand-alone noise
wall project on an interstate in Tennessee...
TDOT Puts Halt to Road Work
(Daily News Journal)
The Tennessee Department of Transportation will halt all interstate and
major road construction work that requires lane closures during the busy Christmas and New Year's Holiday travel period...
TDOT Study Forecasts
Exit 20 Traffic Increase (Cleveland Daily Banner)
More than 61,000 vehicles per day enter the exit 20 interchange at
Interstate 75 and APD - 40...
New Salem, I-24 Interchange
Nearly Finished (Daily News Journal)
Murfreesboro will soon have its sixth point of access to Interstate
24...
I-24 Exit to Open at
New Salem Highway (Gannett/Hutchens)
Murfreesboro will soon have its sixth point of access to Interstate
24...
Highway 27 Widening to
be Completed by New Year (Times Free-Press/Hightower)
Widening of U.S. Highway 27 in Spring City will be completed by
Jan.1,...
Georgia: Water,
Transportation Woes May Hurt Economies (Times Free-Press/Yount)
Georgia's statewide water plan concerns Northwest Georgia legislators,
mainly because it doesn't deal adequately with additional water resources,...
Grants Will Help
Cleveland, McMinn County Airports (Times Free-Press/Clayton)
The state Department of Transportation's Aeronautics Division
recently announced two state grants to the airports in McMinn and Bradley County...
Agreement Signed
Cutting Road Delays (Chattanooga Times Free-Press/Hightower)
An agreement between the state's transportation and environmental
protection departments will not "cut corners" but will protect taxpayers,...
Heat Wave,
Drought Voted Tennessee's Top Story of 2007 (Associated Press)
NASHVILLE, Tenn. (AP) - Several weeks of unrelenting heat killed more than
a dozen people in Tennessee in 2007 while the accompanying drought that devastated agriculture also caused some cities to run out of
water...
Alternate Toll
Bridge Routes Proposed (Times-Free Press)
Hamilton County's engineer has developed four possible alternate routes for
a proposed highway construction project that would include a toll bridge across the Tennessee River...
State Wants Utilities Pulling from Cumberland, Tennessee Rivers (WPLN-Radio)
This year, nearly 40 water utility districts suffered through the long, dry
summer in Tennessee,...
Franklin Alderman Continue Wrangling with Water (WPLN-Radio Nashville)
The city of Franklin is set to make big decision about what water source to
rely on - the Harpeth River, which can go dry in the summer, or the Cumberland...
Transit
Facility on Agenda for January (Times-Free Press)
A proposal to locate a transit center at the planned homeless services
complex downtown is expected to go before the Chattanooga City County by the end of January,...
Work on Natchez Trace
Bridge to Force Detours (Tennessean)
COLLINWOOD, Tenn. (AP) - A bridge on the Natchez Trace Parkway will be
demolished next weekend to make way for a new bridge...
WINGS Air Rescue
Moves to New Base (Tri-Cities.com)
The WINGS Air Rescue is moving from Johnson City Medical Center Hospital to
the Elizabethton Municipal Airport...
Several State Road Projects Come to
An End (Tennessean/Howard)
Work will pick up in early spring. As the cold weather rolls in for the
season, it pushes out lots of traffic cones...
Groups Unite on
Transportation Funding (Chattanooga Times Free-Press/Hightower)
Concerns about money for Tennessee roads have led to an alliance among six
prominent state lobbying groups seeking public support for revamping transportation funding...
Highway Help Line Answers
Millionth Call (Tennessean/Howard)
Tennessee's 511 information system answered its millionth call Thursday
evening,...
Airports Get Money for
Improvements (Tennessean/Howard)
Four airports in the Metro Nashville area received state grants for
improvements,...
Outlaw Field
Airport Given $44,000 Grant From State (Leaf Chronicle)
Outlaw Field Airport in Clarksville has been awarded a $44,000 state grant
to remove runway obstructions...
TDOT Road Projects Wrap Up For Winter (WKRN-TV
Nashville)
Now that winter is here, several major road construction projects will be
going away to the delight of motorists who live with them everyday...
Transportation Lobbyists Form Group to Call
For More Road Funding (AP)
A group of six lobbying groups has banded together to form the Tennessee
Transportation Coalition to call for more infrastructure funding...
Old Hickory Lake Rose From Farmland 50 Years Ago (Tennessean)
Where can I learn the history of Old Hickory Lake? Fifty years ago this
year the Old Hickory Dam began power production,...
Georgia: Water Crisis: How did we get here? (Atlanta Journal-Constitution)
Cycle of plan, fail and repeat has left region high and dry. No one
has ever been fishing in the West Georgia Regional Reservoir that officials first planned in the 1980's to help quench the region's
thirst...
Editorial: Repairs to Dam Needed (Leaf Chronicle)
The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers must do what is necessary to prevent the
catastrophe that would occur if the Wolf Creek Dam failed...
Editorial: Down
Payment Big Step in Ending Road to Nowhere (Knox News-Sentinel)
The dead-end sign for the Road to Nowhere got a little more permanent last
week when Congress approved a $6 million down payment to help Western North Carolina...
Guest
Columnist: Legislature Must Stop Limiting Our Funding (Tennessean)
I sure am tired of those members of the media who keep comparing our area
to Atlanta...
Guest
Columnist: Flexibility is Needed to Do The Job Right (Tennessean)
Most of us would agree that the best decisions are usually made by those
with the most accurate information who are closest to a problem...
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