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Originally Posted by Smoothcat
The main thoroughfare through downtown, I-24, comes into the city on a narrow strip of land that was reclaimed from the Tennessee River. It exits to the east by climbing Missionary Ridge. Truck traffic can really clog both points, especially those that are slowing as they climb the Ridge. Other arterials suffer the same problem of having to cross over (or through, there are several tunnels) the Ridge.
All that being said, I'm not sure the system as proposed would do much to immediately reduce traffic congestion on the freeway system, at least. Would it would hopefully do is steer future development toward its path and help keep existing traffic from becoming worse. The routes shown on the map go through some pretty blighted neighborhoods that need all the help they can get.
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Yeah, when I said larger roadways, I meant arterial surface streets. Mass transit along freeways wasn't a good idea in the 60s, and still isn't a good idea now.
I was envisioning utilizing the excess capacity on roadways such as Broad St, Market St, Rossville Ave, Main St, MLK Blvd, McCallie Ave, etc. It would seem a much better use of existing ROW to divert excess capacity from private auto use to dedicated mass transit, that would run through existing neighborhoods, existing commercial districts, downtown, UT Chattanooga, Alstom, BCBS Tenn, riverfront parks, the museum district, the zoo, etc