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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.
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 ...
A 1983 study conducted by TDOT also found that a number of important roads were partially maintained by both the state and local governments. [11] To address this problem, in 1983 the Tennessee General Assembly signed legislation allowing the state to assume control of 3,300 miles (5,300 km) of city and county maintained roads, and made an ...
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.
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.
As part of the redesign, TDOT formed a citizen's resource team, made up of nine local residents who worked with TDOT to select the final designs and alignment of these stretches. [31] On February 9, 2006, TDOT announced that the realignment of the final segment of I-840 had been chosen and that work on the unfinished sections would proceed. [32]
Local officials and residents in 1968 and 1969 unsuccessfully tried to pressure the Tennessee Department of Highways, the predecessor agency to the Tennessee Department of Transportation (TDOT), to construct the route as a fully controlled-access highway, but they chose a limited-access design that incorporated both interchanges and at-grade ...
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).