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    Letter - TDOT Highway 127 - July 12 2018

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    Senator Bo Watson and Representative Patsy Hazlewood wrote to Commissioner John Schroer of the Tennessee Department of Transportation to express their concerns about a project on Highway 127 leading up to Signal Mountain. [1] They supported including improvements to this road in the "Improve Act" passed in 2017. [2] However, the status of the project remains unchanged despite recent heavy rains and falling rocks that have heightened safety issues. [3] The legislators look forward to discussing how to advance this priority project with the Transportation Department.

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    Letter - TDOT Highway 127 - July 12 2018

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    Senator Bo Watson and Representative Patsy Hazlewood wrote to Commissioner John Schroer of the Tennessee Department of Transportation to express their concerns about a project on Highway 127 leading up to Signal Mountain. [1] They supported including improvements to this road in the "Improve Act" passed in 2017. [2] However, the status of the project remains unchanged despite recent heavy rains and falling rocks that have heightened safety issues. [3] The legislators look forward to discussing how to advance this priority project with the Transportation Department.

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    Senator Bo Watson and Representative Patsy Hazlewood wrote to Commissioner John Schroer of the Tennessee Department of Transportation to express their concerns about a project on Highway 127 leading up to Signal Mountain. [1] They supported including improvements to this road in the "Improve Act" passed in 2017. [2] However, the status of the project remains unchanged despite recent heavy rains and falling rocks that have heightened safety issues. [3] The legislators look forward to discussing how to advance this priority project with the Transportation Department.

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    Letter - TDOT Highway 127 - July 12 2018

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    Senator Bo Watson and Representative Patsy Hazlewood wrote to Commissioner John Schroer of the Tennessee Department of Transportation to express their concerns about a project on Highway 127 leading up to Signal Mountain. [1] They supported including improvements to this road in the "Improve Act" passed in 2017. [2] However, the status of the project remains unchanged despite recent heavy rains and falling rocks that have heightened safety issues. [3] The legislators look forward to discussing how to advance this priority project with the Transportation Department.

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    BO WATSON

    State of Tennessee PATSY HAZLEWOOD


    SENATOR General Assembly REPRESENTATIVE

    425 5th Avenue North, Suite 706 425 5th Avenue North, Suite 544
    Nashville, TN Nashville, TN
    (615) 741-3227 (615) 741-2746

    July 12, 2018

    Mr. John Schroer, Commissioner


    Tennessee Department of Transportation
    James K. Polk Building, Suite 700
    505 Deaderick Street
    Nashville, Tennessee 37243

    Dear Commissioner Schroer:

    We recently received the updated report on the Tennessee Department of Transportation (TDOT)
    projects in our House and Senate districts. Thank you for this information. It is very useful to us as
    we discuss the State’s spending on infrastructure like roads and bridges throughout our area.

    The Tennessee House of Representatives and Senate passed the “Improve Act” in 2017. We were both
    supporters of the amended version of the Act. Part of our rationale for support was the inclusion of
    improvements to Highway 127 leading up Signal Mountain particularly the area that has received a
    number of TDOT repairs due to excessive water runoff and cracks in the roadway.
    Our concerns escalated when the road on Highway 68 collapsed between Spring City and Grandview
    in April of this year. The environmental circumstances surrounding the Highway 68 collapse
    “…heavy rains caused cracks to open in the road,” (Chattanooga Times Free Press, April 24, 2018),
    appeared eerily similar to the area of Highway 127 leading up Signal Mountain.
    We are pleased, of course, that the Highway 127 project is included in the TDOT report. What is
    disappointing to us is there appears to have been no change in the status of the project.
    Let us be clear – this is a priority project to us.
    Highway 127 was discussed extensively with TDOT and the Administration during the ‘Improve Act”
    negotiations and we shared the concerns that the City of Signal Mountain and many residents had
    expressed to us regarding the potential failure of this vital transportation route.
    Certainly TDOT’s regular inspection of the area is appreciated; however, like the Highway 68
    collapse, “While TDOT was evaluating the cracks [on Highway 68], the roadway broke off and
    fell…,” (Chattanooga Times Free Press, April 24, 2018), the inspections do not eliminate the risk of
    failure. We believe that moving forward with a long-term solution has reached a critical stage. Recent
    Commissioner Schroer
    July 12, 2018
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    heavy rains with rocks falling onto cars and across the roadway have only served to heighten our
    uneasiness with this area of the road.
    We look forward to the opportunity to engage with you and your team in a discussion on how we can
    best move this project forward.

    Sincerely,

    Patsy Hazlewood Bo Watson


    TN State Representative TN State Senator

    cc: Chris Howley, Mayor, Town of Signal Mountain


    Jim Fields, County Commissioner
    Joe Deering, Director, TDOT Region 2
    Paul Degges, Deputy Commissioner, TDOT
    Jim Henry, Tennessee Deputy Governor

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