People living nearby fear Harriman Road, which parallels Interstate 75 in southern Bradley County, will become a truck route through their neighborhoods if the road, which currently dead-ends at a proposed industrial park site, is extended.CLEVELAND, Tenn. – People living near a proposed south Bradley County industrial park fear that a rural lane that dead-ends into the site will become a busy truck route.
If the industrial park is developed, they want Harriman Road closed, they told the Bradley County Commission on Monday.
“They are not opposed to progress. They are not opposed to an industrial site,” said attorney Stephen Crump, representing people who live in the Bancroft Road area. “However, they live and work and travel in that community, and they are opposed to making Harriman Road a dangerous place.”
Bancroft Road begins at U.S. 11. Harriman Road turns off Bancroft as it goes under Interstate 75, and Harriman runs parallel to the interstate.
The current plan calls for an interchange off APD 40 with a connector road to the north side of the 343-acre site.