Motorists navigating through Clarksville should brace for upcoming delays as temporary traffic lights are set to be installed at the intersection of Spring Creek Parkway and Trenton Road. According to a city announcement, CDE Lightband will begin to set poles for the new signaling today, weather permitting. The work, planned between 9 a.m. and 2 p.m. to avoid disrupting school bus schedules, may result in significant congestion due to lane closures at the intersection.
Post-implementation, the Clarksville Street Department will wrap up the installation of the temporary traffic signalization. This project is a key puzzle piece in a larger effort to alleviate traffic from local state highways and Interstate 24 in Montgomery County. "Within the context of our broader, Citywide Transportation 2020+ master plan, and its specific set of vehicular and pedestrian safety improvements, we are particularly excited about the role that Spring Creek Parkway will play," Mayor Joe Pitts stated via the City of Clarksville.
Spring Creek Parkway is an emerging street designed to connect Tennessee Department of Transportation state highways Trenton Road and Wilma Rudolph Boulevard and eventually link to the city street Ted Crozier, Sr., Boulevard. This new thoroughfare is expected to reduce the burden on the existing infrastructure and, in the long term, streamline traffic flow in the region.
The City of Clarksville has rolled out the Parkway expansion in three phases, with the first phase approaching a completion cost of nearly $13 million. The subsequent segment, set to commence early in the following year with a bridge construction over Spring Creek, carries an estimated price tag of $30 million. Mayor Pitts remarked, "A measure of patience now, will get us to a point where travel in that area of our community will be much improved, and we look forward to that."
