I don’t know if it's the state or the city of Chattanooga that is spending a lot of money to build sidewalks and/or bike trails on Highway 58 (from Webb Road to Jersey Pike). We will have the finest walking/biking sidewalk that crosses at least a dozen businesses with heavy traffic and at best you have to cross six lanes of traffic to get to the other side to catch the sidewalk that runs up to Jersey Pike.
I'm lost on why would you build this on two different sides of a very busy six-lane state highway? I'm sure we will add more mis-timed traffic lights to the mix and make what is now a traffic mess a total mess to cars and now bikes and walkers.
Someone needs to figure how to put all that money to a better use than a two-sided sidewalk that has six lanes of traffic through the middle of it Maybe we could spend it on better traffic control on a very busy road and not on adding more to the mess.
Med Dement, business owner on 58
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The Highway 58 sidewalk project was proposed and funded during the administrations of Littlefield and Bredesen back in 2011 and reported in a local newspaper on June 1, 2011. We had a chance then to object.
Now "It's a Done Deal" as Mayor Corker once replied to other road issues that were questioned after the fact.
Ralph Hetzler