Work will begin this month to repave Ochs Highway, cut back tree limbs and make other changes in order to improve safety.
“We all agreed that there are both short-term and long-term solutions that will improve the overall safety of these roads,” David Bennett, the mayor of Lookout Mountain, Georgia, wrote in a letter to residents.
He said he’d met with Walker Jones, the mayor of Lookout Mountain, Tennessee, as well as representatives of the Department of Transportation and the City of Chattanooga regarding safety concerns on both Ochs and Scenic Highways.
Ochs Highway has been the site of several vehicle accidents, including a crash in August that killed a 42-year-old mother of five. A woman also died in a 2017 accident in which an 18-wheeler coming down the highway hit three vehicles traveling up the mountain.
According the Bennett’s letter, the following changes will be made: