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With several more weeks left to go in the freeze-thaw season before heavy spring rains arrive, Tennessee and Georgia commuters should brace for more road delays, according to state road officials.
“If we could build an umbrella over our roads, we would not have to make as many pothole repairs,” said Julie Oaks, spokeswoman for the Tennessee Department of Transportation.
Already this winter, the Chattanooga region has had two major rock slides in the Ocoee Gorge, two mud slides on Signal Mountain’s W Road, at least two rock falls on Cummings and Scenic highways on Lookout Mountain, a sinkhole on U.S. Highway 127 on the bluff of Signal Mountain and a Chattooga County, Ga., drainage pipe and road collapse.
During Friday morning’s rush hour, a massive pothole erupted on Interstate 24 in the Missionary Ridge cut.