By Cliff Hightower
Staff Writer
DAYTON, Tenn. —; A group of local officials across Southeast Tennessee said today they would like to see a a four-lane corridor built from Athens, Tenn., to Murfreesboro, Tenn.
“It’s hard for us to get to Nashville from McMinn County,” said McMinn County Mayor John Gentry. “We’re just not connected.”
In a meeting today at the Rhea County Welcome Center in Dayton, several local officials from McMinn, Meigs, Rhea and Bledsoe counties talked of widening State Route 30 to four lanes from McMinn County to Rutherford County.
The project would boost economic development and give them greater access to Nashville, they said.
Beth Jones, executive director of the Southeast Tennessee Development District, said the Tennessee Department of Transportation might view the east-west corridor favorably.
“It meets one of the criteria (for transportation planning),” she said. “That is need.”
E-mail Cliff Hightower at chightower@timesfreepress.com
See tomorrow’s Chattanooga Times Free Press for full coverage.
Staff Writer
DAYTON, Tenn. —; A group of local officials across Southeast Tennessee said today they would like to see a a four-lane corridor built from Athens, Tenn., to Murfreesboro, Tenn.
“It’s hard for us to get to Nashville from McMinn County,” said McMinn County Mayor John Gentry. “We’re just not connected.”
In a meeting today at the Rhea County Welcome Center in Dayton, several local officials from McMinn, Meigs, Rhea and Bledsoe counties talked of widening State Route 30 to four lanes from McMinn County to Rutherford County.
The project would boost economic development and give them greater access to Nashville, they said.
Beth Jones, executive director of the Southeast Tennessee Development District, said the Tennessee Department of Transportation might view the east-west corridor favorably.
“It meets one of the criteria (for transportation planning),” she said. “That is need.”
E-mail Cliff Hightower at chightower@timesfreepress.com
See tomorrow’s Chattanooga Times Free Press for full coverage.
