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The Tennessee Department of Transportation (TDOT) announced plans to build SR 396 on September 11, 1985, for a price of $29.3 million (equivalent to $70.5 million in 2023 [10]) as part of an effort to improve infrastructure around the then-future Saturn Plant, which had been announced three months prior.
A payment in lieu of taxes agreement was negotiated with the state in September 1985, and that same month the Tennessee Department of Transportation announced plans to construct State Route 396 (Saturn Parkway), a 5 mi (8.0 km) long controlled access highway that connects the plant to Interstate 65, at a cost of $29.3 million. [5]
The U.S. Highways in Tennessee are the segments of the United States Numbered Highway System that are maintained by the Tennessee Department of Transportation (TDOT) in the state of Tennessee. All of these highways in Tennessee have a state highway designation routed concurrently along them, though the state highway is hidden and only signed ...
The highway crosses Tennessee from west to east, from the Mississippi River at the Arkansas border to the Blue Ridge Mountains at the North Carolina border. At 455.28 miles (732.70 km), the Tennessee segment of I-40 is the longest of the eight states through which it passes and the state's longest Interstate Highway. [5]
The original Tennessee state route shield from 1923 to 1983. Governor Austin Peay, who was elected in 1922, made road-building a central issue of his campaign. At the time, Tennessee was known as a "detour state", with many of its roads in poor condition compared to those of neighboring states. [6]
Beginning at I-24 and ending at SR 111, the route is a controlled-access highway for approximately 24 miles (39 km). The highway goes north as a narrow four-lane freeway (concurrent with unsigned I-124) through downtown and has interchanges with West Main Street (exit 1), Martin Luther King Boulevard (exits 1A–B; unsigned SR 316), and Fourth Street (exit 1C; unsigned SR 389) before crossing ...
State Route 42 (SR 42) was the former designation of a state highway in Tennessee that ran from US 70S in Sparta north through Cookeville, and ending in the town of Static at US 127 near the Kentucky state line. The number was decommissioned when SR 111 was created.
SR 91 turns southeastward to run concurrent with US 421 and SR 34. The highway crosses the Iron Mountains at Sandy Gap, climbing to over 3,800 feet (1,200 m) before descending again to the outskirts of Mountain City. [1] Near downtown Mountain City, SR 91 splits off from US 421/SR 34 to once again follow a northeastward track.