The Tennessee Department of Transportation recently released its annual three-year transportation program.
The multimodal program contains aviation, rail, and waterway projects; addresses congestion; and funds transit agencies and statewide safety initiatives.
The program invests more than $3.6 billion in 58 individual project phases in 34 counties statewide. It includes repairing and replacing 34 bridges in 17 counties, nine on the state highway system.
It also supports Gov. Bill Lee’s executive order to fund highway and bridge projects in economically distressed and at-risk counties.
Construction will begin during fiscal year 2023 on several projects: the Camden Bypass to Tennessee River (SR 1/US 70) in Benton County; the I-75 Interchange Modification at Hamilton Place Mall in Hamilton County; Nolensville Pike from Old Hickory Boulevard to Mill Creek (SR 11/US 31A) in Davidson County; North of SR 10 to near Cedar Bluff Road Intersection (SR 141) in Trousdale County; SR 194 (Blue Oval City) in Haywood County and the relocated Alcoa Highway (SR 115/US 129) in Knox and Blount counties.
In addition, the three-year program builds on the progress of the IMPROVE Act. The 2017 legislation identified 962 projects. This year’s program budgets for 92 of them.
Partial plans for 2024 and 2025 were included for planning purposes.