This morning, eastbound motorists traveling on Interstate 24 near the Grundy-Coffee county line should expect an easier commute, a Tennessee Department of Transportation spokeswoman said.
Overnight, contractors were expected to finish paving the stretch of interstate that collapsed earlier in the week, Jennifer Flynn said.
Since Tuesday, when a sinkhole swallowed a lane and a half of the road, the lengths of detours around the repair site were swelling past an hour, motorists said.
On Friday, contractors completed placing “aggregate” material in the hole, Ms. Flynn said, and paving was expected to be completed overnight. Repair costs were estimated at $266,000.
The sinkhole could have been forming slowly over years but was accelerated recently by heavy rains, TDOT maintenance supervisor Ray Rucker said. Those same rainstorms flooded Nashville and other parts of the South.
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