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The city of Chattanooga would like to put Martin Luther King Jr. Boulevard on a “road diet.”
The idea is to “improve safety for all people traveling through the corridor and to create a welcoming public space,” according to an online survey the city – in partnership with the Benwood Foundation – wants residents to take.
If you read between the lines and see the words “bike lanes,” go to the head of the class. Bike lanes, as part of a reduction in lanes from four to three (the third being a turn lane), are among the options under consideration. The city, after all, has a $1.4 million federally funded Congestion and Mitigation Air Quality grant in part to pay for a bike network throughout the city and support other safe streets projects.
Construction of whatever option is chosen – in the portion of M.L. King from Georgia Avenue to Palmetto Street – is scheduled for the spring of 2017.