Highway, Road And Street Construction

Road Superintendent to run for re-election (12/14/11)
Stanley Smotherman has announced his candidacy for re-election as Bedford County Road Superintendent in the March 6, 2012, Democratic primary. A Bedford County native, Smotherman has worked for Bedford County Highway Department for the past 33 years and has served as road superintendent since 2000. He currently serves as secretary/treasurer of Tennessee County Highway Officials Association...

Right of way marked for North Main widening project (11/04/11)
Brighly colored stakes in the ground along the east side of North Main Street show where the right-of-way is to be for widening anticipated to begin sometime during fiscal year 2013-2014. The right-of-way consists of 8 to 10 feet of property and impacts 48 tracts. A center turn lane will be added from Madison Street to north of Rolling Road at Lowe's, where an existing turn lane begins. (T-G Photo by Brian Mosely)

North Main work gets council nod (09/06/11)
The widening of North Main Street will move one step closer to reality Thursday as the city council is slated to approve a set of plans for the project. Plans showing the right-of-way and construction details of the project were recently received by the city and have been placed on the agenda for the council's approval...

State spending cuts may affect city (08/25/11)
Federal spending cuts called for under the recent debt ceiling agreement could have an trickle-down impact on Shelbyville and its residents in the long term. Last week, Tennessee Finance Commissioner Mark Emkes told state agency heads to come up with a plan for how they would deal with losing up to 30 percent of their federal funding as a result of congressional spending cuts...

Main squeeze: Repairs slow N. Main traffic to crawl (08/02/11)
Traffic on North Main Street was backed up for a good part of the day Monday as crews from Shelbyville Power, Water and Sewer worked to fill a hole caused by a broken water main. But while repairs were well underway, it will be later in the week before the busy thoroughfare returns to normal...

Powder-filled bottle blasted (07/28/11)
Investigators took no chances after a bottle filled with explosive powder was discovered by a visitor to Fisherman's Park in downtown Shelbyville at mid-morning Wednesday. The area near the bottle was roped off while investigators awaited a representative of the Tennessee Highway Patrol's bomb squad and a Tennessee Bureau of Identification agent...

Signs of the times (06/26/11)
Tennessee's senators have drafted legislation in an attempt to stop a federal "unfunded mandate" requiring local governments to replace road signs to provide better visibility. But Shelbyville has been replacing them since 2008 at a cost of $65,000, and the city's public works director wonders if they can recoup the funds already spent...

Wider N. Main, new 130 bridge in state's plans (04/29/11)
Shelbyville motorists will be able to say goodbye to traffic headaches after TDOT announced the widening of North Main Street is scheduled to start during fiscal year 2013-2014. TDOT released the state's three-year transportation program on Thursday, which also included the replacement of the Duck River bridge on State Route 130 (Old Tullahoma Highway) in the upcoming 2011-2012 fiscal year...

State backs slower 231 (03/20/11)
The state has given Shelbyville approval to lower the speed limit on a section of U.S. 231 North, but the city is still awaiting word about a traffic light at Heritage Medical Center. According to a letter from the Tennessee Department of Transportation, they have performed a speed limit study in the area of 231 and Airport Business Park Drive, and are recommending that it be lowered to 55 mph through a nearly four-mile section of road that includes Shelbyville Municipal Airport and Heritage Medical Center.. ...

THP to conduct license checkpoint (02/20/11)
The Tennessee Highway Patrol will be conducting a driver's license checkpoint the week of Feb. 20 on State Route 64 in Bedford County. Recognizing the danger presented to the public by drivers who are under the influence and unqualified drivers, troopers will concentrate their efforts on vehicles being operated by drivers who violate the driver's license laws of Tennessee...

Road's 'name' to honor volunteer (09/22/10)
Bedford County Board of Commissioners' rules and legislative committee gave its endorsement on Tuesday to a proposal that Knob Creek Road near Wartrace be designated the Mary Pepper Wells Fort Memorial Road. The actual name of the road would not change, nor would the mailing addresses of those living on the road...

No decision made on agricultural zoning change (07/14/10)
No action was taken Tuesday night on proposals to regulate high-density commercial agriculture in Bedford County, after a report that county attorney John T. Bobo was still studying the issue. The changes are a response to a proposed development of 14 chicken houses on Big Spring Road...

41A widening project begins (06/29/10)

Wider road may lead to new jobs (05/07/10)
State Sen. Jim Tracy and State Rep. Pat Marsh on Thursday announced that Tennessee Department of Transportation has agreed to fund the first phase of improvements to Railroad Avenue in front of the Newell Rubbermaid packaging and distribution center, which officials say will improve safety at the site and is a first step towards any future expansion of the facility...

Two seats on Road Board are filled (02/11/10)
Bedford County Board of Commissioners appointed Andrew Robertson on Tuesday night to a vacant Eighth District seat and Ronnie Sudberry to a vacant Ninth District seat on Bedford County Road Board, but no one has yet been found to take the vacant Sixth District seat...

Caution signs taken from road work site (01/29/10)
Five caution signs marking construction of the new Shelbyville bypass at Fairfield Pike were stolen over the weekend, police were told Wednesday. Two "road work ahead" signs, two "road closed to thru traffic" signs and a "end of road work" sign were taken from the north end of the construction area between Saturday afternoon and Monday morning, an representative of Wright Paving said...

Uncertainty reigns as officials prepare for snow, ice and sleet (01/28/10)
A winter storm continues to bear down on Tennessee, and forecasters are scrambling to figure out what form of precipitation is likely to fall where. A statement from the National Weather Service office in Memphis early Thursday said icing of up to a half inch was possible along the Interstate 40 corridor from Memphis to Jackson. Forecasters cautioned that it wasn't clear what form the precipitation would take...

Stimulus money to fund road upgrade (01/27/10)
The long-awaited realignment of the Unionville-Deason Road / U.S. 41-A intersection is now waiting for environmental studies, as a result of the state deciding to use stimulus funds to pay for it, according to discussion Tuesday night by Bedford County Financial Management Committee...

Local agencies get highway safety grants (10/16/09)
Three Bedford County agencies have been awarded highway safety grants totaling $60,260, state officials announced this week. Agencies receiving the grants are: Funding for the Governor's Highway Safety Office grants were provided by the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration and Sen. Jim Tracy worked to secure these funds for Bedford County...

Counterfeit $20s passed at convenience store (09/24/09)
More counterfeit $20 bills have been reported in Shelbyville, police say. Three fake $20s were given to a cashier at a BP convenience store late Tuesday afternoon, officers were told. The suspect was driving a white van or Ford Explorer, the clerk said and store video showed, according to Detective Brian Crews...

Man's nose broken in road rage incident (09/22/09)
A rough weekend for drivers resulted in one injury from apparent road rage and several arrests by Shelbyville police. The man and his wife said they were attacked after driving around two cars which were parked in the roadway and almost colliding with an oncoming white Lincoln Continental...

Inspector gives all clear for buildings near demolition site (09/08/09)
Shelbyville's building inspector has found everything is all right on the east side of the square as far as structural integrity goes after a citizen expressed concern about the status of aging buildings. According to the city manager, officials hope to take a look at other structures on and around the public square to see how they are holding up...

TUB connection could help pressure in Wartrace, Bell Buckle (04/29/08)
A frequent complaint heard from water customers living in the Wartrace and Bell Buckle area is the lack of pressure in the system. But if Wartrace decides to hook up to the city of Tullahoma's water system, that problem could become a thing of the past...

Head-on crash takes life (04/28/08)
A head-on collision on a narrow, rural road left a Bedford County man dead and another seriously injured Monday morning. William Howard Cooper, 81, Possom Trot Road, died about 9:15 a.m. at the scene on Sandusky Road shortly after the impact drove the passenger side of the truck in which he was riding into a guard rail....

New EMS hall rises near new hospital (04/28/08)
Walls have risen at the new Bedford County Emergency Medical Services station in Airport Industrial Park. The station, built on land donated by Wal-Mart Distribution Center, will become the new headquarters and administrative offices of BCEMS, a short distance away from the new Heritage Medical Center which opens this summer. BCEMS's existing headquarters on Union Street will remain open as an ambulance station...

Unionville man dies following three-vehicle crash (04/26/08)
A Unionville man died Friday following a three-vehicle crash at a dangerous Shelbyville intersection. Allen Haynes, 71, of U.S. 41-A North, was pronounced dead on arrival at Bedford County Medical Center, Maj. Jan Phillips of the Shelbyville Police Department said...

$21 million is possible cost of Normandy project (04/26/08)
With one eye on the current drought and the other eye on future flooding, the Tennessee Duck River Development Agency will soon be requesting feasibility studies for solutions -- one of which could be raising the pool level at Normandy Dam 5 feet -- which would mean construction work to raise the actual dam and replace the spillway gates...

Big trucks moved off the square (04/25/08)
The traffic situation on Shelbyville's public square will soon see some relief as 18-wheeled vehicles will be directed away from the crowded area. City manager Ed Craig said that Mayor Wallace Cartwright had requested that the Tennessee Department of Transportation (TDOT) reroute state highways off of the square. The city received word from TDOT Tuesday that the request was approved...

Copper taken from underneath home (04/24/08)
An estimated $2,500 worth of copper wiring was stolen between April 16 and Monday from a home under construction in Valley View Estates subdivision on Red Hill Road in Normandy. Builder John Morton told the Bedford County Sheriff's Department the wiring was taken from underneath the home...

Cost control emphasized to county officials (03/21/08)
Cost control and record-keeping were stressed during a meeting Thursday of the county's department heads. The quarterly luncheon meeting was held Thursday at the Bedford County Emergency Management Agency building on Railroad Avenue. It included the presentation of bonus checks to the staff of Bedford County Zoning Office for their cost-saving measures...

Funding cuts could threaten bypass project (03/21/08)
It's too early to tell whether a rescission of $66.3 million in federal funding to the Tennessee Department of Transportation (TDOT) would impact Bedford County, according to Sen. Jim Tracy. But Tracy stated that he would "work like crazy" to keep projects like the Shelbyville bypass from dropping off TDOT's list of priority projects...

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