Cars travel north along a new portion of U.S. 27, just past the Signal Mountain Boulevard exit.After months of squeezing through a narrow lane marked out by concrete barriers on southbound U.S. 27, drivers will get a bit of a change – but not by much.
Motorists entering the highway from Signal Mountain Road have wondered for months how brand-new lanes they can see above them to their right would eventually fit into the traffic pattern.
They’ll find out Friday morning.
That’s when a lane shift will for the first time put tires to new pavement laid as part of the $104 million reconstruction project.
U.S. 27 South traffic will merge into the existing center lane, and the right lane will become an exit-only lane. Traffic entering from Signal Mountain Road onto U.S. 27 South will be routed onto the new southbound lanes.