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TDOT has inspected more than 100 bridges over the course of 36 hours, the department said in a 5:30 p.m. social media post on X, formerly known as Twitter. Officials still have hundreds more to check.
TDOT awarded the first contract for the segment between SR 100 and SR 46 on June 14, 2002, [28] but additional litigation forced TDOT to completely cease work on this segment three months later. [29] As a result of these lawsuits, TDOT chose to slightly modify the design and employ new construction methods on the remaining sections the ...
SmartFIX40 was a major transportation improvement project coordinated by the Tennessee Department of Transportation (TDOT) along Interstate 40 (I-40) in downtown Knoxville, Tennessee. The project, referred to as the most ambitious TDOT project at the time, [ 4 ] consisted of two separate phases and contracts, started construction in 2005 and ...
The Tennessee Department of Transportation (TDOT) awarded a construction contract for 2.4-mile (3.9 km) Section 3 (southern leg of the Union City Bypass) in March 2016 and planned to let a second contract for Section 5 (northern leg of the Union City Bypass) in December 2016. Work began on Section 3 in June 2016. [10]
As road closures are expected to last for months, the Tennessee Department of Transportation is warning people to avoid roads between East Tennessee and Western North Carolina.
In 1972, due to its expanding role in all modes of transportation, it was renamed the Tennessee Department of Transportation. In the 1980s, TDOT began the $3.3 billion Better Roads Program to clear a backlog of projects and improve aging roads. In 1989, the gas tax was set at 21.40 cents per gallon to help fund this project.
The State Route System of Tennessee is maintained and developed by the Tennessee Department of Transportation (TDOT) in the U.S. state of Tennessee.Currently the state has 14,150 miles (22,770 km) of state-maintained roadways, including 1,233 miles (1,984 km) of Interstate Highways and 13,077 miles (21,045 km) of State Highways. [2]
In 2014, TDOT announced plans for improvements to the Alcoa Highway section of US 129 from I-40 to McGhee Tyson Airport in Blount County. The massive project, consisting of seven phases, called for the conversion of Alcoa Highway from a non-access-controlled highway into a full controlled-access highway (freeway).