A motorist passes a sign that reads “W Road Closed” as he turns onto Anderson Pike from Taft Highway on Monday.A week after Tropical Storm Lee swirled through the region, cable and phone lines remain down on the W Road, keeping closed one of two arteries between Chattanooga and Signal Mountain.
“We’re waiting on cable and phone companies,” said Harold Austin, director of Hamilton County Highway Department. “We’ve talked to both companies this morning, and they told us they’d try to get them out today. They’ve just been so busy they couldn’t get to them, they said.”
All electric lines are repaired along W Road, he said.
But both the cable and phone companies say they’re not the problem.
Jim Weigert, spokesman for Comcast, said the cable company’s lines are already cleared from the road, and customers along the road have service again with a “temporary” fix.