Eric Meller skateboards down the W Road on Signal Mountain, Tenn., while the road is closed to traffic Tuesday. The road was closed because of concerns about new cracks in recent paving work and is expected to be closed for 10 weeks for repairs.
W Road on Signal MountainWe saw this east of our office in north Springdale.
Posted by NWADG on Wednesday, March 25, 2015
Rock slides, downed trees, sinking spots – the W Road has had it all. But last week, new and very large cracks formed on the recently repaired road because of what officials suspect were geological shifts.
“We’ve obviously been monitoring the road for a while now, and it has been moving in the past. This past week it moved again,” said Todd Leamon, Hamilton County’s administrator of public works.
To cope with the new cracks, which Leamon described as being several inches deep and several inches wide, county officials decided to close the road. Repairs are expected to take 10-12 weeks.
Leamon said in a news release that closing the road will speed repairs.