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The busiest stretch of highway in Tennessee is on the segment concurrent with I-75 in Knoxville between a connector to US 11/70 and Papermill Road, which had an average daily traffic volume of 218,583 vehicles in 2022. [7] The lowest daily traffic volume that year was 26,985 vehicles at the North Carolina state line. [7]
The State Route System of Tennessee is maintained and developed by the Tennessee Department of Transportation (TDOT) in the U.S. state of Tennessee.Currently the state has 14,150 miles (22,770 km) of state-maintained roadways, including 1,233 miles (1,984 km) of Interstate Highways and 13,077 miles (21,045 km) of State Highways. [2]
The short segment between Wrights Ferry Road and the Tennessee River was let in May 1988 and completed in August 1990 but also not opened to traffic. [ 43 ] [ 44 ] In December 1989, construction began on the short segment between US 129 and Wrights Ferry Road, [ 45 ] and eight months later, work began on the section between the river and SR 332 ...
Tennessee-Tombigbee Waterway (red) The locks and dams (L&D) along the Tennessee-Tombigbee Waterway The Tennessee–Tombigbee Waterway (popularly known as the Tenn-Tom) is a 234-mile (377 km) artificial U.S. waterway built in the 20th century from the Tennessee River to the junction of the Black Warrior-Tombigbee River system near Demopolis, Alabama.
This section is the most heavily traveled section of highway in Tennessee, with an annual average daily traffic (AADT) volume of more than 210,000 vehicles. About five miles (8.0 km) later, at an interchange with the western terminus of I-640 , the northern bypass around Downtown Knoxville , I-75 splits north off of I-40 and onto a concurrency ...
Referred to at the time as the "Bristol Bypass", this section opened to traffic on November 20, 1961, along with I-381 directly across the state line. [28] [29] Grading and bridge construction on the interchange with I-40 took place in the early 1960s, but this interchange was not opened to traffic until work on the approaches was complete.
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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.