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The Alcoa Highway portion of US 129 was first constructed and completed as a two-lane roadway from Knoxville to Blount County in 1939 to provide access to the then recently opened McGhee Tyson Airport. Initially, this route only carried the SR 115 designation, and in 1961, AASHO approved rerouting US 129 onto Alcoa Highway.
US 129 then travels due north, becoming known as Alcoa Highway and passing through the city of Maryville. It travels through Alcoa , passing by McGhee Tyson Airport , and then intersecting I-140 . US 129 then crosses the Tennessee River on the James E. "Buck" Karnes Bridge into Knoxville .
The Pellissippi Parkway is a major highway in Knox and Blount counties in the Knoxville metropolitan area in Tennessee that extends 19.75 miles (31.78 km) from State Route 62 at Solway to SR 33 in Alcoa.
Alcoa Highway will be open for anyone needing to get to Alcoa or the University of Tennessee Medical Center. Why are both the Gay Street and Henley Street bridges closed?
Alcoa is a city in Blount County, Tennessee, United States.Its population was 10,978 at the 2020 census. [5] It is part of the Knoxville, TN Metropolitan Statistical Area.. As its name suggests, Alcoa was the site of a large aluminum smelting plant owned and operated by the Alcoa corporation (Aluminum Company of America).
Knoxville's busiest road is a stretch of U.S. Route 129 known as Alcoa Highway, which connects the Downtown area with McGhee Tyson Airport and Maryville. [220] A merged stretch of US-70 and US-11 enters the city from the east along Magnolia Avenue, winds its way through the Downtown area, crosses the U.T. campus along Cumberland Avenue ("The ...
State Route 168 (SR 168, known as Governor John Sevier Highway) is a state highway in Knox County, Tennessee, that is 18.1 miles long. Its western terminus is with US 129 / SR 115 , and its eastern terminus is with US 11 / US 11E / US 11W / US 70 / SR 1 .
The completion of the Henley Bridge in 1931 and the opening of the Great Smoky Mountains National Park shortly afterward led to an explosion of commercial development along Chapman Highway, the primary route connecting Knoxville with the park. As of the 2000 census, South Knoxville had a population of 18,516 residents. [6]