The Tennessean from Nashville, Tennessee • Page 86

THE NASHVILLE TENESSEAN, Sunday an. 12, 1969 Interstate Traffic Still Stalls in Metropolitan Nashville LIGHTFOOTl Right of way acquisition for that loop, about four miles long, will Ix-gin next summer, but it is not scheduled to be open for traffic until the end of 1973 or later. The last link of the expressway system on schedule is the outer loop, making a wide swing around the city from Charlotte and Delaware Avenues to 1-65 at Franklin Hoad. ting entangled in heavy downtown traffic. Nor can a businessman from west or south of the city ride the expressway to within a few blocks of his office.

A tourist can drive from Arkansas or from Mississippi beyond Memphis without stopping until 1-40 suddenly dumps him off in the midst of Nashville traffic. Except for a stretch near Rockwood, he can start in East Tennessee beyond Knoxville and do the same thing. By CHARLES FONTENAY Motorists who envision an expressway as something that gets you past the stop-and-go traffic may be surprised to learn that two-thirds of Nashville's expressway system is open for business. It's true. Yet, after 13 years of interstate highway construction in Tennessee, a traveller from east to west (or from west to anywhere) can't get through Nashville without get Furnish Your Office, Reception Room or Waiting Room in Style and at Reasonable Prices -J i i rt, ra i.

mi A Year Away It will be more than a year before the Memphis-to-Knox-ville traveller can pass through Nashville without getting jammed into something like Broadway or Charlotte Avenue traffic. It will be between two and three years before an office worker living in the western or southern part of the county can drive in via expressway and get off it close to his place of business. The reason that so much of the Nashville expressway system is finished without doing any more good than it does is that the two-thirds done so far is the easy part. Long stretches of beautiful, four-lane, limited access highways streak through the countryside in six directions to Nashville but the only inner city connecting link that has been built is the relatively simple one through East Nashville. One IVi mile stretch, which added considerably to the value of the East Nashville link, was opened to traffic just before Christmas.

This was the stretch of 1-65 from Trinity Lane north to Dicker-son Road, which will relieve a heavy and almost constant traffic jam caused by interstate traffic piling up at the intersection of Trinity Lane and Dickerson Road. A New Bridge Another six miles of this hit (4 4-4: i jfcMr jfl! 1 1 from Dickerson Road to Two Mile Pike, is scheduled to open by nest fall. By next winter, 1-40 throrgh North Nashville from 43th Avenue to 18th Avenue is due to be open, and a new Cumberland River bridge which eventually will take its traffic is supposed to be finished. But the two-mile link between the bridge and 18th Avenue is being held up for feasibility studies being conducted by Metro through the Model Cities program. It is tentatively scheduled for completion in 1970, completing the first interstate link from east to west through the city.

Not until 1971 will someone living at Newsom Station be able to breeze in on the interstate, turn off on the inner loop in the neighborhood of 14th Avenue and Meharry Boulevard, and get within a few blocks of his office before turning off into the crowded stop-and-go streets. Not until then will someone living at Brentwood be able to drive in to the inner loop about Eighth Avenue and South Street and do the same thing. Farther Along As of now, one can drive through Memphis, Knoxville or Chattanooga on the interstate system, without having to get off and into urban traftic. In that sense, their expressways are farther along than Nashville's, although the complete system in both Memphis and Knoxville isn't scheduled to be finished any sooner than the one here 1974. A number of things have held up construction of urban expressways in Tennessee's interstate system, particularly in Nashville, in the 13 years since the system was approved by the federal government.

When first plans were made for the system in 1956, W. M. beautiful 'planting IS NO ACCIDENT! Mclntyre Nursery has been beautifying homes and business establishments in the Nashville area since 1868. ROBERT OPEN SUNDAY MdNTYRE NURSERY RT. 2 BRENTWOOD 297-6596 io see some solid results for their tax money brought a change in emphasis, and concrete ribbons began to lengthen through the flatiands of West Tennessee and the hilly terrain of Last Tennessee.

Some of the urban projects, meanwhile, hit snags. Nashville was one Oi the more difficult situations, both because of its rocky terrain and the density and kind of buildings which would have to be bought and torn down lor the expressway. These factors presented less of a problem along the route of the East Nashville link and the eastward extension of 1-40 than anywhere else, and they were tinisned lirsu Most Acquired The 1-40 controversy which arose when some North Nashville businessmen objected to economic disruption threatened by the chosen route caused some delay in expressway progress. So did a temporary freeze in federal highway funds last September. As things have gone, most of the right of way has been acquired for the west side of the inner loop from Jefferson Street to Division Street and around to the Hermitage Avenue interchange, and construction is to begin on most of it this spring.

Right of way is 70 complete on 1-65 from Battery Lane north to Eighth Avenue, South, and Mulberry Street, and right of way acquisition will begin in February on the outer loop stretch from Brans-ford Avenue east to Glenrose Avenue. Construction is to begin on both this year or next, and to be completed in 1971. Last Link The highway department is scheduled to begin acquiring rights of way on the northwestern extension of 1-24 from Brick Church Pike in the spring of 1970, and the whole link to the county line is due to be open to tralfic by the end of 1972. aT jj? ft A All Sketched From Slock MO" A. Executive High Back Chair $0195 B.

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