New Mt. Pleasant Wastewater Lagoon System Delayed (Columbia Daily Herald)
Delays in receiving state permits may push back the operation of the city's new wastewater lagoon
system until next summer, making another winter at the strained wastewater treatment plant a possibility...
Central Location, Transportation Links Make Knoxville Area A Hot Choice For Companies (News Sentinel)
When National Partitions President Anthony D'Andrea wanted to move his company out of South Florida,
he searched for a new location within easy distribution distance of markets east of the Mississippi River...
Tri-Cities Regional
Airport Receives Grant Money To Raze Buildings (Herald-Courier)
Officials with the Tri-Cities Regional Airport hope to demolish some buildings that haven't been used
in the past 16 months with $92,000 grant they've received from the Tennessee Department of Transportation Aeronautics Division...
Concord Road Is
On TDOT Fast Track (Tennessee/Donahoe)
Right-of-way acquisition begins from Sunset to Edmondson...The city of Brentwood
may be something akin to a teacher's pet, as far as the Tennessee Department of Transportation is concerned...
One-lane Bridges Biting Dust (The Daily Times)
Construction of two new bridges over Little River in Townsend is expected to
start in January,...
Advantages Of Using
Highway 64 Are Less Than The Disadvantages (Daily Banner)
There have been 228 crashes on U.S. Highway 64 between 2004 and 2006 according to
the results of a new Corridor K study presented recently in Chattanooga...
Decatur Road Work
Nearly Done (Chattanooga Times Free-Press/Clayton)
Work on four-laning state Highway 30 between Athens, TN., and Decatur should be
complete by December,...
Chattanooga Touts Its
'Liquid Assets' To Industries (Times Free-Press/Flessner)
Built around America's fifth largest river, Chattanooga has plenty of water amid
one of the worst droughts ever confronted in the Southeast...
Tracy, TDOT Praised For Quick Work On Road (Shelbyville Times--Gazette)
Traffic and safety problems in front of Cascade School should be drastically
reduced due to the addition of a new lane leading onto the grounds...
Bridge Connecting Soddy-Daisy/Harrison...Cost Put At $350 Million (Chattanoogan.com)
A 16-mile toll bridge connecting Soddy-Daisy and Harrison would cost about $350
Million and would not be ready until at least 2015...
Appalachian Commission Reports
Needs, Achievements (Associated Press)
CHARLESTON, W. Va. - Every dollar spent on a selected batch of projects in
Appalachia expanded personal incomes by about $9 and attracted $75 in private investment,...
Report: Tennessee Infrastructure Needs At $28.3 Billion (Times-News)
Tennessee's transportation and utilities needs are bigger than ever,...
TACIR Study Outlines
Top Improvement Requirements (Cleveland Banner)
A statewide study on infrastructure needs has confirmed what Cleveland and
Bradley County school officials have been telling city and county officials - ...
County Needs $871M In
Infrastructure (Daily News Journal)
Rutherford County is dealing with a projected $871.6 million need in public
infrastructure, such as roads and schools...
Local Speed Detection Cameras Win Praise (Chattanooga Times Free-Press/Sher)
Success has state and other municipalities eyeing similar systems. Chattanooga's successful use
of traffic cameras to nab speeders on a deadly stretch...
Cameras To Catch Speeders Get Look (Knoxville
News-Sentinel/Humphrey)
Police chief says Knox could use them, if residents support idea...
Access Road Project Still In Planning, Says Official (Johnson City Press)
A new direct access road to the Veterans Affairs campus, Mountain Home, is still
in the works,...
Chamber Executive: Exit
20 Has Become An 'Unfunny Joke' (Cleveland Daily Banner)
Exit 20 has the distinction among truckers as the worst exit on Interstate 75 and an embarrassment to
local elected officials...
Airport Gets $50,000
Grant (Jackson Sun)
Funds will promote Big Sky Airlines, which replaces grounded
RegionsAir...
TDOT Study Aimed At Streamlining Trucking Traffic (WBIR-TV Knoxville)
The Tennessee Department of Transportation sees some 160,000 cars and trucks
travel through Knoxville every day. Every year, that number is expected to multiply,...
Study Outlines Need
For Link Between Chatt. Asheville (Times Free-Press/Hightower)
An economic development study of Southeast Tennessee and western North Carolina
shows the need for some connections between two areas,...
Tri-Cities
Airport Receives Grant (Elizabethton Star)
The State of Tennessee announced Tuesday that an Aeronautics Grant in the amount
of $92,000 has been approved for the Tri-Cities Airport...
Representative Borchert Says He Will Press For A Bridge After Ferry Opens (Camden Chronicle)
There are a lot of projects underway in Benton County, according to State
Representative Willie "Butch" Borchert...
Humphrey:
Alliance Opens Faucet On Infrastructure Series (Knoxville News-Sentinel)
As another step in trying to get people thinking about things they mostly
take for granted, the Tennessee Infrastructure Alliance in venturing into sewers...
State of
Tennessee Announces $92K Grants to TRI (Bristol Herald-Courier)
The State of Tennessee announced today that an Aeronautics Grant in the amount of
$92,000 has been approved for the Tri-Cities Regional Airport...
State Toll Road Program May Grow (Tennessean)
Success of initial projects key; more requests expected. As more
communities request toll roads in their neighborhoods,...
Sidewalks At Harris To Be Funded By State Grant (Shelbyville Times-Gazette)
Harris Middle School has been awarded $150,500 in Safe Routes to School
funds...
State, Local Officials
Discuss Problems, Future of Exit 20 (Times Free-Press/Higgins)
When it comes to economic development, Exit 20 remains the 800-pound gorilla on
Insterstate 75 here, despite years of talks between local government and the state...
Sequatchie Officials
Seek Second Overlook (Chattanooga Times Free-Press/Benton)
DUNLAP, Tenn. - The view of the Sequatchie Valley from the overlook on state
Highway 111 is beautiful,...
Hurst Offers
Positive Prospects For Economic Development (Elizabethton Star)
Carter County Tommorrow President Don Hurst presented the CCT boars with several
positive prospects at Monday evening's meeting,...
Thompson's Station Awarded "Safe Routes to
School" Grant (Tennessean)
The state of Tennessee is awarding $240,000 in Safe Routes to School funds to
Heritage Elementary and Heritage Middle Schools in Thompson's Station in Williamson County...
Metro Proposes Plans To Reduce Sewage In
Water (Associated Press)
The Metropolitan Government of Nashville and Davidson County announced plans
Wednesday to make extensive improvements to its dewer systems,...
Feds OK Sewer Consent Decree; Metro Agrees to Comply (City Paper/Harless)
City must spend $300M to $400M in infrastructure upgrades. The federal
government has approved a consent decree...
City Does State's
Work, Repairs Pothole (Tennessean)
Driving through the pouring rain in Murfreesboro on Tuesday morning, Quenna
Fisher barely saw the rim-crushing pothole that left her and her 8-month-old daughter stranded on South Church Street...
Safe Routes To School
Award Recipients Named (Jackson Sun)
The Tennessee Department of Transportation has announced the 2007 Safe Routes to School award
recipients,...
Bridge To Provide Vital
Link For Greenways (Tennessean)
Greenways are intended as connectors within a community, allowing people to move
around via long strips of greenery and parks...
New TDOT
Cameras Will Mean Quicker Response (WKRN-TV Nashville)
Construction will start soon on a new phase of the TDOT Smartway
system...
TDOT Unveils Pellissippi Expansion Plans;
Reaction Mixed (WBIR-TV Knoxville)
Blount County neighbors took to Heritage High School Thursday night to tell the
Tennessee Department of Transportation their opinions on plans to extend the Pellissippi Parkway...
A Deep Subject -
Rogersville Looks At Digging New Well (Rogersville Review)
The flow in Big Creek has rebounded but the Rogersville Water Commission is
moving forward with a new well and will explore the feasibility of using the Holston River as a water source...
Growth Creates School
Infrastructure Needs (Cleveland Daily Banner)
A statewide study on infrastructure needs has
confirmed what Cleveland and Bradley County school officials have been telling city and coutny officials - ...
Editorial: Toll Law Leaves Many Questions Unanswered (Johnson City Press)
Earlier this year, Tennessee lawmakers voted to create a state authority to
oversee proposals to charge for driving on new roads built in Tennessee...
Phil Bredesen:
U.S. Needs Shift In Focus For Future (Commercial Appeal)
Like most men, I am fascinated with machines that move; the bigger and faster,
the better...
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