The Greeneville City Council will meet this afternoon and will discuss a Five-Year Improvement Plan for the East Andrew Johnson Highway.
The improvement plan includes a traffic plan for the busy highway, which we know is just going to get busier and busier year after year, especially because of the amount of people moving to Greeneville and businesses planning projects here. The five-year plan is supposed to help ease the traffic flow. It shows what goals are preferred for each fiscal year.
For Fiscal Year 2025 the plan includes timing solutions to traffic signals and software upgrades, signage and pavement markings at Morgan Road and defining lanes between the 11-E and the northern driveway to Walmart, improvements to the Serral Drive intersection by adding a dedicated left turn lane going east on 11-E, and a shared through/right lane. The total cost is estimated to be around $120,000.
For Fiscal Year 2026, the plan indicates a project with the Tennessee Department of Transportation and the extension of turn lanes:
a. The eastbound left turn lane on 11-E at North Rufe Taylor Road.
b. The westbound left turn lane on 11-E at South Rufe Taylor Road.
c. The eastbound left turn lane on 11-E at Serral Drive.
The total cost is estimated to be around $400,000.
Fiscal Year 2027 includes widening a section of Harlan Street from the intersection of 11-E to south of the proposed apartment entrance to provide three twelve foot wide lanes, with one travel lane in each direction and a continuous two way left turn lane, reconstruction on the roadway and an additional turning (left) lane. The plan also includes regrading the embankment adjacent to the eastbound lane on Jeff Woods Memorial Drive to provide adequate sight distance. The total cost is estimated to be around $1,020,000.
The rest of the Five Year Plan includes more improvements onto N. Rufe Taylor Road, Jeff Woods Memorial Drive, Old Stage Road, Snapps Ferry Road, modifications of traffic signals, and reconstruction on the roads as necessary.
The council will meet at 4 PM this afternoon in the G. Thomas Love Boardroom at the Greeneville Energy Authority Building, located on 110 North College Street.
