TDOT Awards Emergency Contract for Repairs to US-127 on Signal Mountain

Thursday, December 10, 2009 | 08:57am

Roadway will be closed for weekend around the clock repairs

Chattanooga, Tenn. – The Tennessee Department of Transportation today awarded an emergency contract to repair a section of U.S. Highway 127 on

Signal Mountain to Wright Brothers Construction of Charleston, Tennessee. Heavy rains caused a portion of the roadway near log mile 15.9 about a half mile from the Signal Mountain city limits to collapse on Wednesday, December 9.

The contractor will close the roadway at 10:00 p.m. on Friday, December 11 at the site of the roadway failure. The road will remain closed until 6:00 a.m. Monday, December 14. At that time traffic will be restored to one lane. The contractor will remain on site and plans to work 24 hours a day 7 days a week, weather permitting, until repairs are complete. Repairs are estimated to take one to two weeks.

For more information contact Jennifer Flynn

423-510-1164

Jennifer.Flynn@tn.gov

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