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Crews are now working on the first stages of the development of Apison Pike.
The 0.6-mile first phase will tie Apison Pike into the Enterprise South interchange at Exit 9 and will be the first design-build project in the state’s 24-county Region Two area, according to TDOT community relations officer Jennifer Flynn.
“This project will not be developed and constructed in phases as we traditionally have done,” she said. “Instead, some of the project’s phases can occur concurrently.”
Flynn said the interchange is expected to be completed by December 2011.
Using 80 percent federal money and 20 percent state money, Wright Brothers Construction Company of Charleston, Tenn., will build a bridge over the railroad, improve the intersection of Old Lee Highway and Apison Pike, and provide a connection to Interstate 75.
The project will end between Old Lee Highway and Pattentown Road.
Flynn said the contractor’s surveyors should be in the field soon to get started on the approximately $7.3 million phase.
Once complete, TDOT will pick up with widening Apison Pike to five lanes from that point down to Ooltewah-Ringgold Road.
“This 2.2-mile project is in the very early stage of project development and will be a normally funded TDOT project, not design-build,” she said, noting that neither the right of way nor the construction phases are funded at this time.
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