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FAIRFIELD COUNTY - Residents along Duffy Road and Delmont Road can expect to see orange barrels and construction equipment this summer as projects to pave and widen roads in the city and county get underway. But county officials are assuring residents the projects shouldn't cause too many delays.
Labels: road closures, Road Construction
When a section of Interstate 40 at downtown Knoxville closes for more than a year beginning this summer, it will mean a change of plans for thousands of motorists on the major cross-country corridor.
The closure between James White Parkway and Hall of Fame Drive begins May 1.
Tennessee Department of Transportation contractors are working on letting drivers know how to negotiate the detour with about 270 sign changes leading into the city.
The detour will carry motorists on I-640 around the city, which means signs are being posted in advance miles away on I-40, 75, and 81.
“There are so many signs, we can’t just snap our fingers and do all this in one weekend,” Mark Dykes, TDOT’s regional safety coordinator, told The Knoxville News Sentinel.
“We plan to have all the signs in place by May 1. So you may see the signs up a week before May 1. You may be directed by signs to 640 but the downtown route is still open.”
Crews with Tennessee Guardrail Inc. will be erecting 18-by-14-foot signs in Greene, Cocke, Roane, McMinn, Loudon and Jefferson counties to warn them of the closing. They will be covered until May 1.
Flooding rivers were expected to crest in a number of Northeastern states today following record rainfall.
According to The Associated Press, nine inches of rain fell in parts of New York and New Jersey during the past two days. Flooding, mudslides, fallen trees and power outages stretched from Kentucky to New England.
More than 50 roads in New Jersey were closed by flooding, and more than 400 roads were closed in New Hampshire.
New Jersey declared a state of disaster, and New York was using National Guard units to help with evacuations in flooded areas.
Parts of Vermont got 17 inches of snow out of the same system.
In Pennsylvania, drifting snow stranded tractor-trailers on Monday.
