The Tennessean from Nashville, Tennessee • Page 130

THE NASHVILLE TENNESSON, SunJiy, Dee, t. 1954 i LEGEND TSmiiiniBn, hi, man. mi yrimimi iw iV A IwuudtI BERTSOM I CU.Y CLAIBORNE HAWKINS p-J HENRY Sm TROUSDAlTZ JACKSON FENTRESS VyeiilHCtAy. GIBSON raXf 1 1964 1965 1966-67 1 1 I HARDIN I LIWCOLK FRANKLIN This map portrays the status of Tennessee's interstate superhighway system, indicating the rough schedule of construction until its completion. It's a Long Way Down the Turnpike to Completion result of the InsDeectlon.

he after 1967 proposed 1-75 from Ooltewah to near Cleveland, 12.2 miles. Additions to 1-40 near Dandridge, taking It to the North Carolina line, 27.7 miles. North Carolina will not have its own interstate route completed to tie onto this stretch for another year, however. A stretch of 1-75 In Campbell and Anderson Counties, 2.7 miles. In 1966 and 1967, the department plans to complete the Nashvllle-to-K 1 1 1 roots with construction of 42.8 miles between Monterey and Harriman.

1-65 will be fin-Ished all the way from Nashville to the Alabama line, with 23 'i miles from U.S. 64 northward to the Maury County line and 3.4 miles from Old Hickory Boulevard to Battery Lane in Nashville. Also, a large segment of 1-75 running southward from the Kentucky line through Caryville will be finished, with an additional 24 miles completed. In addition to these, a number of short aectlons will be finished by the end of 1967. be able to drive from Nashville to Knoxville via superhighway, and from Nashville to the Alabama line, hitting a four-lane highway into Montgomery.

Improvement This represents a considerable Improvement over the situation as late as 1961, when Tennessee was right at the tall-end of the statos in mileage open to traffic. At that, ttmey Gov. Buford Ellington asked for-a federal Inspection of the State Highway Department to find ways to Increase By CHARLES L. FONTENAY After a false start, which produced a long lag In comparison to other states, Tennessee Is at last getting Interstate superhighway mileage finished at a rather rapid pace. By the end of this year, there will be approximately 316 miles of superhighway completed and open to traffic in Tennessee.

By the end of next year, another 169 miles is scheduled to be open. Including the en-' tire stretch of Interstate 40 between Nashville and Memphis. By the end of 1967, one will The other is M55, which will cross the Mississippi River from the Missouri bootheel and connect with one of the present regular highways in West Tennessee. This will Involve construction of a new Mississippi River bridge near Dyersburg. The state is now conferring with Arkansas officials on a new Mississippi River bridge at Memphis, to care for 1-40 traffic.

The cost of the bridge Is estimated at 42- million, of. which Tennessee will pay $18 million. Open Sections Projects scheduled for completion before 1967 will not be affected by the new plans for not be finished. If not. it will not be opened until some time in January.

The following aectlons are scheduled for completion by the end of next year. From State Route 22 across a new Tennessee River bridge to State Route 48, completing 1-40 from Nashville to Memphis, 54.3 miles. Department officials said completion of this stretch next year will depend on a good construction such aa contractors had thin year. Charlotte Pike to 48th Avenue ln Nashville, 3.4 miles. Mount Juliet interchange to Gordonsvllle, 35 miles.

Sand Springs to Monterey, 7.2 miles. Three sections of 1-65 southward from Nashville 8 mllee from Brentwood to State Route 96; 13 4 miles In Giles County and 10.7 miles in Maury County from State Route 99 to the Marshall County line. Sections on both ends of the present stretch on both sides of Monteagle Mountain. 23H miles. Body Jiggling Pleasant, May Help Space Travel 1-24 and 1-155.

however, aa they are already under contract. Here are sections of the interstate system now open In Tennessee, plus sections to be open by the end of this year: From the Mississippi state line south of Memphis, around Memphis to State Route 22 south of Huntingdon, 116 miles. From State Route 48 southwest of Dickson to Charlotte Pike ln Nashville. 37H miles. From State Refute 98 east of Franklin to State Route 99 east of Columbia, 19 miles.

0 North First Street In Nashville to the Mount Juliet interchange in Wilson County, 17 miles. From State Route 53 at Gordonsvllle to Sand Springs in Putnam County, 384 miles. State Route 61 south of Harrtman to Broadway in Knoxville, 39 miles. Vasper to Caryville In Campbell County, 3 miles. Both sides of Monteagle Mountain, 12 miles.

Southward cut-off of 1-24 irom 1-40 ln Nashville, 7.2 miles. A section of 1-40 In Jefferson and Cocke Counties, 7.6 miles. Sections of several routes in Hamilton County, 17.2 miles. Three short sections, of I-65 at the Alabama line, 1-85 at the Virginia line and 1-75 at the i Kentucky line, already open. The Nashville expressway from North First Street to Trjnitv Lane is scheduled for opening by the end of the year, but highway department After the 1961 reorganization, emphasis was shifted to getting some of the easier rural superhighway constructed.

By this time, the initial work In the metropolitan areas also had been done, so construction of the city expressways could move faster at the same time. It was this emphasis on metropolitan expressways, and not a shortage of machinery for the job, that held Tennes- see. back for so long. Leon T. Cantrell, assistant state highway commissioner, says there's plenty of contracting machinery available, and the state can build the highways just as fast as the federal government will put out the money.

The federal government pays 90 per cent of the cost of the superhighways. Cantrell said a move has been started in Congress to allocate federal funds faster in an effort to finish the interstate system throughout the nation by 1970 instead of 1972, as now planned. If these federal funda are made available to Tennessee, he said, the state can speed up its construction program accordingly. New Projects Plans for the latter part of the program, already projected through 1972, will have to be changed anyhow In the immediate future, Cantrell said. As soon as the department can get the facts and the allocations, it is going to reschedule construction to get started on two new projects which were not Included In the original program.

One of these projects Is the Tennessee section of Interstate 24, the route from Nash reorganized the department. Organization of the department over the last eight years actually has been less at fault for Tennessee's slow pace than the way the program was oriented to begin with. At the time the program began In 1956, W. M. Leech, now a chancellor, was highway commissioner.

Leech, highly respected by his colleagues and considered one of the nation's best highway commis-; sioners, realized the problem traffic would face If it were given big four-lane highways through the rural areas and then dumped Into metropolitan streets which had not been improved. Four Cities So Leech focussed the major part of superhighway funds and effort Into planning and getting started on expressway systems in the four big cities Nashville, Memphis, Knoxville and Chattanooga. Some local delays were en-countered, particularly In Nashville, where dilly-dallying by the city administration over getting rights of way kept the program at a virtual standstill. But as a result of this approach, Chattanooga's expressway system is virtually complete, and Knoxvilte's has made major progress. Unfortunately, concentration on the metropolitan areas meant that work on the long rural sections of the interstate system between the big cities was set aside at first.

For a long time, Tennessee had only a mile or two of superhighway ln Giles County, and construction machinery remained idle while virtually all federal money for the system went lnto planning, engineering and tight of way purchase. False Notion It is a false notion that slaves are contented If they are not beaten, and have enough to eat. Liberty Is Just as sweet to them as It Is to us. I can say, from the bottom of my heart, may we "never come to any terms with the Rebels till this blot of slavery is wiped out. for one, would be willing to stay here ten years, and endure any amount of hardship, if at the end I could see America truly free.

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