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[PirateVOL]

BDV, you can take your home city and shove it

Fully 1/5 of my travel time today was taking a LONG, LONG view of the less than pretty venues of your city   
Hell, even hotlanta wasn't nowhere near as bad

Oh, and GO VOLS!

[Black Diamond Vol]

Then please contact the TN politician of your choice and ask them to support the bypass. 

http://www.timesfreepress.com/news/local/story/2014/jun/11/chattanooga-bypasshighway-encircling-metro-area/249523/

Did you drive I-24 through Lookout Valley during rush hour before a holiday weekend?  Yeah, you probably shouldn't have done that.

[PirateVOL]

Then please contact the TN politician of your choice and ask them to support the bypass. 

http://www.timesfreepress.com/news/local/story/2014/jun/11/chattanooga-bypasshighway-encircling-metro-area/249523/

Did you drive I-24 through Lookout Valley during rush hour before a holiday weekend?  Yeah, you probably shouldn't have done that.

define rush hour
I think 3:00 should be ahead of the post work traffic

[Black Diamond Vol]

define rush hour
I think 3:00 should be ahead of the post work traffic

Not on the Friday before Labor Day.  I knocked off at 1 today, and I'm sure I wasn't the only one. 

But that stretch of I-24 is really bad EVERY day during rush hour, and pretty much all day on Fridays.  I'm glad I live (and work) on the other side of town.

[BanditVol]

Yeah Chattown almost always sux on I-24 downtown.

I'll be going through there myself in the AM..maybe around 10.  I hope it's not too bad...

[BanditVol]

Then please contact the TN politician of your choice and ask them to support the bypass. 

http://www.timesfreepress.com/news/local/story/2014/jun/11/chattanooga-bypasshighway-encircling-metro-area/249523/

Did you drive I-24 through Lookout Valley during rush hour before a holiday weekend?  Yeah, you probably shouldn't have done that.

That would be really nice, but it's a huge road.  That would take years to approve and get going.

There is probably some interim step they could take in the meantime like just building a southern bypass that connects near the I-75 junction and goes to near the I-59 junction.  Or at any rate, at a quick glance that seems to have the fewest terrain issues.

[Black Diamond Vol]

That would be really nice, but it's a huge road.  That would take years to approve and get going.

There is probably some interim step they could take in the meantime like just building a southern bypass that connects near the I-75 junction and goes to near the I-59 junction.  Or at any rate, at a quick glance that seems to have the fewest terrain issues.

Actually, that would be the toughest, because it would probably have to tunnel under Lookout Mountain.  The north section with the new bridge across the river would be tough, too. The easiest place to start would be on the East side of town, because they could just bring the already existing Hwy 60/71 between Cleveland and Dalton, GA up to Interstate standards. 

I think/hope I have at least 50 more years to live, and I doubt the whole thing gets built in my lifetime.