A crowd of people filled Signal Mountain Middle/High School’s cafeteria for a 10-minute presentation on a Tennessee Department of Transportation project on three miles of state Route 8 up Signal Mountain.
“We’re excited about this project,” said state Rep. Patsy Hazlewood, who was among the attendees. “It’s been a long time coming.”
The project area begins at the bottom of the mountain near the Suck Creek Road intersection, continuing up the mountain and ending just before the Palisades Drive intersection on state Route 8, also known as U.S. Highway 127.
“The purpose and need for this project is to improve safety, reliability along the roadway, reduce potential roadway failures and also improve drainage,” Fritz Brogdon, project engineer for Arcadia, said during his presentation.
He said the Department of Transportation has started or completed four stabilization projects in the area over the past four years.