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A crack in the six-lane Interstate 40 bridge over the Mississippi River is forcing traffic onto the four-lane I-55 bridge, causing modest delays for some travelers and truckers.
But what happens if a wreck shutters the I-55 bridge, too?
That s the question Mark Cooper, co-owner and general manager of Memphis-based trucking company Cooper Freight, said has kept him up at night this week: My biggest concern is that if there s an accident on the old bridge, you ve got everything shut down at that point. I don t see how they d get emergency vehicles over.
Cooper added: That would be the crisis that could happen at any moment.
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Tennessee Places Six Locations On List Of Nation s Worst Bottlenecks
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ARLINGTON, Va., Feb. 24, 2021 /PRNewswire/ The American Transportation Research Institute today released its annual list highlighting the most congested bottlenecks for trucks in America, and six Tennessee locations made the top 100, including two in the top 15 in the country. Tennessee is at the crossroads of the country, and increasingly that intersection is being choked by congestion, said
Tennessee Trucking Association President Dave Huneryager. Despite the pandemic, trucks continued moving and delivering their critical loads, but their jobs were made more difficult by these chokepoints. Continuing roadway construction in Nashville and Chattanooga certainly contributed to these rankings, but the fact that there were still significant bottlenecks in our highway system even though people drove less is proof positive that we need to continue inves
4 Nashville intersections among nation’s top 100 most congested bottlenecks for trucks
Four of the bottlenecks are in Nashville.
“Tennessee is at the crossroads of the country, and increasingly that intersection is being choked by congestion,’ said Tennessee Trucking Association President Dave Huneryager in a news release. “Despite the pandemic, trucks continued moving and delivering their critical loads, but their jobs were made more difficult by these chokepoints.”
The intersection of I-24/I-40 at I-440 East is the highest-ranked bottleneck in the Nashville area at No. 13. I-40 at I-65 East ranked No. 35, I-65 at I-24 ranked No. 77 and I-65 at SR 386 (Vietnam Veterans Parkway) is at No. 88.