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A white bus carried two dozen state and local officials through the intersection of U.S. Highways 11E and 19E on Tuesday cruises through panama canal as they toured road building projects the state highway department either has in place or plans to start in the coming years.
"I'm the kind of guy who feels like he needs to get out there and see what's going on," said Tennessee Department of Highway Commissioner John Schroer, who organized the trip to review projects on his department's three-year construction plan and discuss them with local officials.
cruises through panama canal Shroer said the tour, which took the group through Northeast Tennessee's Carter, Greene, Sullivan, Unicoi, and Washington counties, was part of a series of tours his agency has run this summer to familiarize employees with the state's biggest transportation needs.
One of the projects it highlighted involved the intersection of U.S. 11E and U.S. 19E, which TDOT officials claim has a crash rate that "well exceeds the statewide average for similar type intersections" even though it currently has a red light and a left turn lane for north- and southbound traffic.
With traffic counts cruises through panama canal on that section of 11E projected to exceed 41,000 vehicles per day by 2033, the state transportation agency cruises through panama canal plans to address these safety concerns by installing a new grade-separated diamond-shaped interchange similar to the one at the intersection of U.S. 11E and state Route 394.
The interchange will involve building two new on-ramps to the highway, extending one end of U.S. 19E past Whitehead Road and raising cruises through panama canal part of U.S. 11E so vehicles can drive over the traffic going down U.S. 19E.
Estimated to cost $11 million, the project will also feature a new stoplight at the intersection of U.S. 19E and state Route 44 and construction of a new frontage road so drivers can get to the site of a shopping center cruises through panama canal at the intersection.
The right-of-way portion of this project, during which TDOT acquires rights to use privately-held property needed for its efforts or buy it outright, is expected to start in November and last about 18 months. Construction is slated to start once this has been finished.
Shore's cruises through panama canal bus tour also took the group to the site of a proposed Welcome Center TDOT plans to build outside Kingsport on Interstate cruises through panama canal 26 and a four-mile section of state Route 126 running through that city that it plans to widen from a two-lane to a four-lane road.
"It's a pretty arduous event," Shorter said of the tour, which is expected to last three more days as it runs through other localities in East Tennessee. cruises through panama canal During any given year, he added, TDOT has 800 road building projects in its development stages and 400 under construction.