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Interstate 40 is About to Go Crazy; Read This Blog

CP March 27, 2008 Blogging, News 6 Comments

<span class="caps" data-recalc-dims="1">TDOT</span> SmartFIX40′ /></p>
<p>Before the I-40 Downtown bottleneck gets better, it’s only going to get worse. TDOT has <a href="http://www.tdot.state.tn.us/smartfix/jwp/">outlined the entire project</a> on their site and are even providing high-tech web cameras to publicize the progress. </p>
<p>To help better answer the question, “what the heck is going on with I-40”, Don Jacobs of the News Sentinel has launched his <a href="http://blogs.knoxnews.com/knx/traffic/">Navigating SmartFIX40 blog</a>. Don writes:</p>
<blockquote><p>To help drivers and the community better understand the most expensive highway project in the state’s history, I am fielding questions about the SmartFIX40 project that for 14 months will change the way people get around Knoxville.</p></blockquote>
<p>If you don’t make it over there today, you’ll have 14 months to visit it later.</p>

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Comments 6

  1. Missybw
    March 27, 2008 at 7:42 pm

    We are stuck right in the middle of the mess. Sometimes living downtown isn’t so convenient. Now if somebody would just move Turkey Creek closer to downtown and put in a Macys, well that’d be just superyduper! That’s a smartfix I can get behind!

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  2. CK
    March 28, 2008 at 10:57 am

    I had posted an article at the Wigshop last month analyzing the “SmartFix.” The problem is holistic- two four lanes are intersecting I-40 at basically the same place: Hall of Fame and James White. An interstate interchange takes up a lot of land, and when you have TWO… you get the traffic engineer gymnastics that are building a huge artificial hill and deep lane pits- all so the double interchange can coil over itself on four layers.

    SmartFix? I think not.

    Get rid of James White. That’s the elephant in the room that no one is addressing in this whole scenario.

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    CP
    March 28, 2008 at 10:58 am

    Good analysis CK. Most don’t think about James White Parkway.

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  4. Missybw
    March 28, 2008 at 11:20 am

    We use James White, but only because it’s connected to the equally useless South Knox Connector and that provides us with a quick route into our neighborhood that doesn’t involve either Henley or Gay. That’s the only thing it’s good for though.

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  5. CK
    March 31, 2008 at 10:59 am

    I think that the James White bridge is still somewhat useful, but instead of hanging a hard right at first creek and going up a dedicated freeway, South Knoxvillians could just turn right at a (hypothetical) new intersection onto Hall of Fame Dr. (at the Women’s Basketball Hall of Fame). Then they could still get to I40 with only a few more minutes of drive time.

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