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The Foothills Parkway is a national parkway which traverses the foothills of the northern Great Smoky Mountains in East Tennessee, located in the southeastern United States. The 72.1-mile (114 km) parkway will connect U.S. Route 129 (U.S. 129) along the Little Tennessee River in the west with Interstate 40 (I-40) along the Pigeon River in the east.
SR 335 south (William Blount Drive) Begin SR 335 overlap: SR 335 north (Old Glory Road) End SR 335 overlap: SR 446 east (Foothills Mall Drive) to US 129 – Foothills Mall: Western terminus of SR 446: US 129 (Alcoa Highway/SR 115) – Alcoa, Robbinsville: Provides access to McGhee Tyson Airport: US 411 (West Broadway Ave/SR 33) – Rockford ...
U.S. Route 70 (US 70) enters the state of Tennessee from Arkansas via the Memphis & Arkansas Bridge in Memphis, and runs west to east across 21 counties in all three Grand Divisions of Tennessee, with a total length of 478.48 miles (770.04 km), to end at the North Carolina state line in eastern Cocke County.
Although it was initially approved for construction in 1944 as a 71-mile-long route, the first part to be completed was the westernmost section (17 miles of pavement between Walland and Chilhowee ...
The road then winds through foothills before intersecting SR 281, SR 146 (both in the Bluewing community), and SR 287 (in the town of Centertown). Main Street comes to an interchange with SR 380 and SR 55 , and US 70S and SR 1 continue northeast on the Bobby Ray Memorial Parkway.
Riverside Drive, Hill Avenue, Hall of Fame Drive, SR 158 (Neyland Drive, James White Parkway) Interchange; SR 71 north follows ramp unsigned: SR 158 (Neyland Drive, James White Parkway) to I-40: Ramp to SR 158: West Magnolia Avenue To US 441 / SR 33: US 11 / US 70 (East Magnolia Avenue/East Fifth Street/SR 1) – Farragut, Strawberry Plains
West of downtown Nashville, the three-mile (4.8 km) section between SR 155 (Briley Parkway/White Bridge Road) and US 70 (Charlotte Pike) was expanded to six lanes from February 1988 to December 1989. From April 1991 to December 1992, the 5.9-mile (9.5 km) section in Bellevue linking US 70 and US 70S was widened to six lanes.
But though just 20% of people surveyed for the study said they prefer to drive downtown, 80% of commuters in the Nashville area drive alone. There simply aren't many other workable options available.