Cookeville to Expect Campus Traffic Delays Tomorrow

Cookeville citizens should expect traffic delays around the Tennessee Tech campus tomorrow as students participate in the Great Move-in Day.

Charlie Macke is the Director of Residential Life at Tennessee Tech.

“There will be traffic backed up down on Dixie and probably around Capitol Quad. Over on 7th Street,” Macke said. “There will be a little bit of traffic there. And we have a good system that keeps it flowing but everybody wants to come all at the same time.”

Macke said the campus will experience loads of challenges while moving-in students.

“Each hall is relatively small and we are not typically made for parents and cars all to come in all at the same time,” Macke said. “So it is just a logistic of getting folks into the hall and cars moved out away from the halls. And trying to do all that so folks don’t have to wait in line.”

University Police and Cookeville Police will provide assistance around the high traffic areas, Macke said.

“Additionally to that we get about seven hundred volunteers from campus,” Macke said. “Six hundred students and sixty or seventy faculty and staff members that all come over to the halls and help us through this process and kind of keep things moving really smooth.”

Macke said housing has increased by only a handful of students compared to last year.

“We have just a little over twenty-three hundred assigned to housing. So, we probably have about three or four hundred of them already here,” Macke said. “We will get eighty percent of them tomorrow. And then we will get the rest of them gradually throughout the weekend.”

Macke said 1,400 incoming freshmen will stay in the residence halls.

The Great Move-in Day will take place tomorrow from 10 AM to 10 PM.