jerry don caseKIMBALL, Tenn. – Traffic snarls at the intersection of Kimball Lane and Main Street are forcing Kimball leaders to review options to alleviate the problem.
Last month, Alderman Jerry Don Case said he’s gotten complaints from residents who described the intersection as “the worst place to try to get in and out of.”
The growing use of nearby Kimball Park, which has begun to host bigger and bigger events like baseball and softball tournaments in recent years, has caused the increased traffic.
“There’s a lot of people involved, and then you’ve got a lot of kids also involved going to and from the ball fields,” Case said in June. “It can be a problem. Traffic just seems like its getting worse and worse.”
Mayor Rex Pesnell said he spoke recently with a Tennessee Department of Transportation engineer who informed him that a traffic study could be done if the city submitted a request letter and three years’ of traffic accident information at that location.