One-way street sections under study for conversion:
› Eighth Street between Chestnut Street and Houston Street› Seventh Street between Pine Street and Georgia Avenue› Sixth Street between Chestnut Street and Lookout Street› Fifth Street between Market Street and Georgia Avenue› Walnut Street between Fifth Street and Georgia Avenue› Lindsay Street between Vine Street and Houston Street› Houston Street between Vine Street and Market Street
The Chattanooga City Council has authorized a study on whether to convert several downtown one-way streets into two-way streets, but not without a few bumps along the way.
The $69,500 study, proposed by Chattanooga engineering firm Barge Waggoner Sumner & Cannon Inc., calls for reviewing one-way sections of Fifth, Sixth, Seventh, Eighth, Houston, Lindsay and Walnut streets.
In all, these amount to 2.66 miles in linear road surface and contain approximately 19 traffic signals. The study is expected to take six months.
Chattanooga City Council Chairman Jerry Mitchell
Chattanooga City Council Vice Chairman Ken SmithChattanooga’s last big two-way thoroughfare conversion took place in 2004, when the city did away with decades of one-way travel on McCallie and Bailey avenues and M.L. King Boulevard, ending their use as downtown freeways.