Tag Archives: TDOT

The Cordell Hull Bridge over the Cumberland River in Smith County will remain closed for several weeks to assess a crack found Wednesday. TDOT Community Relations Officer Rebekah Hammonds said a 24-inch crack was found during a regular inspection. “The location of it prompted them to go ahead and close the bridge,” Hammonds said. “It is on what’s called a ... Read More »

TDOT has started the right-of-way acquisition process for the new road towards Portobello. Baxter Mayor John Martin said at a Tuesday night meeting that property acquisition will be going up Baxter Road across where the new Ditty Road will be. “We’ve got quite a few that’s already agreed to donate the property,” Martin said. “And then TDOT highlighted that if ... Read More »

Plans for electric vehicle infrastructure implementation across the state were presented to the Center Hill Rural Planning Organization’s Friday meeting. But, without plans for the Upper Cumberland in its first phase. TDOT Region 2 Planning Supervisor Andrea Noel said that through the federal government’s Bipartisan Infrastructure Law, Tennessee was allocated some $88 million to spend on electric vehicle infrastructure over ... Read More »

Would Cookeville be better doing future projects on its own without T-DOT money? Cookeville Council Member Eric Walker said it’s something to consider. Last week, council rebid part one of the Spring Street sidewalk project which started in 2014. T-DOT delays have kept the project from beginning, and the price tag rising. Walker said that in cases like the East ... Read More »

New Cookeville gateway signage project awaiting T-DOT approval. City Manager James Mills said that the partnered project with Tennessee Tech must meet specific guidelines from T-DOT. He said that guidelines are even more specific when the project is on a T-DOT right-of-way. “They do this for any type of community that has these signs,” Mills said. “So that what we ... Read More »

Representative Ryan Williams said that TDOT’s I-40 project in Baxter could happen at a completely different rate than has been done before. Williams said that the governor included some additional monies for roads set aside to address traffic concerns in rural Tennessee, with Baxter is one of the biggest recipients. “It takes about 16 years to get a project funded, ... Read More »

TDOT has allocated some $22 million for work on Baxter’s 280 interchange. Mayor John Martin said that the need for this work was originally discovered five years ago in a corridor study. He said that the city’s development, particularly the Portobello project, showed the need to accelerate the process. “The commissioner said that something had to be done out here ... Read More »

Cookeville City Council voted to skip committee formation and move forward with a Tech partnership for an upcoming gateway design project at its Thursday night meeting. City Manager James Mills said that committees can sometimes slow down the work. He said that his recommendation was to move forward in these conversations to get the design phase done as quickly as ... Read More »

Cumberland County will relocate the Woody Convenience Center to a new 3.6-acre property about a mile from its current location. County Mayor Allen Foster said that the commission approved purchasing the new property for some $52,300 after TDOT purchased the current property for $53,040. He said that the need for the move came from  TDOT miscommunication. “They had told us ... Read More »

Bids have been received for TDOT’s Highway 127 project for work between Cumberland and Fentress Counties. Fentress County Executive Jimmy Johnson said that the lowest bid came from Jones Brothers Contractors at some $84 million. “I was told that it would cover the bridge and then there’s some road work on the southern side of the bridge and also on ... Read More »