Downtown Chattanooga and the North Shore is visible in this file photo.A gas leak on the North Shore shut down Cherokee boulevard between Market Street and Manufacturers Road from 11 a.m. until just after 2 p.m. as workers struggled to shut down the leak.
Officials did not elaborate on the cause of the leak or the length of time it took to fix it. But Bruce Garner said the road was reopened to traffic just after 2 p.m.