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Residents: Roads Need Repairing Sooner

70 views · Published 10 May 2013 · 2:30 · Indexed 23 October 2026

Channel: WTVC NewsChannel 9 · 2013 · News & Politics

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By Jerry Askin It's roadway repair season - so which streets in our area need the most help, and how do road crews decide where to put their manpower?We are digging deeper after we received a number of calls and emails from viewers about the time it's taking city, county, and state crews to complete road work.The road conditions are always the same.  They patch it up, it falls in, and next thing you know, there are people running off the road, says driver James Coe.Coe knows all to well the roads in need of repair -- like the one on Lake Resort Drive in Chattanooga. That road is literally caving in and sliding down the hill.People's cars have been damaged. I don't know if the city is going to fix the damages or not, but I think they should if they're not going to fix the roads properly, says Coe.Since April, Chattanooga city road crews have called the work on Lake Resort Drive an emergency project.  Coe thinks road crews should do a better job getting work done on roads earlier. And he's not alone. I just think they need to look and what's going on around the city and find better ways to fix things, says driver Colton Kinamon. Chattanooga road crews are working on a number of smaller projects all over the city. Hamilton County is spending $1.3 million dollars for emergency work on the W Road.  And while TDOT doesn't currently have any emergency work going on in our area, the state is busy working on projects like the road expansion project on Shallowford Road.No one wants better roads than the Department of Public Works, says Lee Norris. Chattanooga Public works Director Lee Norris explains how the city decides  which roads need immediate repair and how they pay for it. We have a database of road conditions and we follow that going through from top to bottom. We try to spend the right money at the right place with the right kind of treatment, says Norris.He says the summer is the best time to get road projects done and tells us they get it done the best they can.Obviously most of the efforts are on priority one and emergency projects, then as times and resources allow, we go to the priority two and three projects, says Norris.Lee Norris says work is done on city roads based on need and funding.   No word now on when the work on Lake Resort Drive is scheduled for completion.

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