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Haslam Touts IMPROVE Act At Interchange Opening
By Bill Dries/ Memphis Daily News
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It looked like another day at the Interstate 40-240 interchange Wednesday, July 19, from the roof of a building by the state’s tallest interchange... By 2035, an estimated 350,000 cars a day will use this interchange... TDOT commissioner John Schroer acknowledged that building the interchange, a $109 million project, caused plenty of disruption of Memphis traffic for quite a while, but said the disruption was worth it. “We’ve been driving on it for six months, as have the citizens of Memphis,” Schroer said. Since then, the interchange’s status as the largest road construction project in state history has been eclipsed by state work currently underway on U.S. Highway 72 in Chattanooga. Haslam added that the coming $300 million overhaul of Lamar Avenue north to the Mississippi state line will eclipse that thanks to the recently passed IMPROVE Act that raises the state’s gas tax while lowering other taxes including the sales tax on food.
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https://www.memphisdailynews.com/new...hange-opening/
(Daily News/Brandon Dahlberg)
Last edited by Johnny Ryall; Aug 2, 2017 at 12:37 AM.
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