{"id":21050,"date":"2018-03-06T11:37:15","date_gmt":"2018-03-06T16:37:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogarchive.utc.edu\/news\/?p=21050"},"modified":"2018-03-14T08:50:19","modified_gmt":"2018-03-14T12:50:19","slug":"m-l-king-boulevard-redesign-will-affect-routes-campus","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogarchive.utc.edu\/news\/2018\/03\/m-l-king-boulevard-redesign-will-affect-routes-campus\/","title":{"rendered":"M.L. King Boulevard redesign will affect routes to campus"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"well span3 pull-right\">For additional information, including maps of specific closures, alternate route recommendations and updates on the project\u2019s progress, visit<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/connect.chattanooga.gov\/mlkblvd\">http:\/\/connect.chattanooga.gov\/mlkblvd<\/a>\u00a0or call CDOT at 423-643-5950.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>The city is repaving Martin Luther King Jr. Boulevard, a 45-day project that will be done in four phases and close certain sections of the street during each phase. Now underway, the project will affect how some UTC students get to campus.<\/p>\n<p>The repaving takes place between Georgia and Central avenues and will reduce the number of lanes from two in each direction to one. There will be a center turn lane and bike lanes on either side of the boulevard.<\/p>\n<p>The redesign also will create about 40 new on-street parking spaces between University and Peeples avenues.<\/p>\n<p>City officials say the redesign will slow traffic on M.L. King but not significantly.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThere should be little travel time difference during the vast majority of the day,\u201d says\u00a0Blythe Bailey, administrator for Chattanooga\u2019s Department of Transportation. \u201cInstead of a highway in a neighborhood, we\u2019ll have a place where people are safer and feel more comfortable.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Mayor Andy Berke acknowledges the project will \u201ccreate some temporary inconvenience,\u201d but says residents and businesses along M.L. King have been asking that changes be made for some time.<\/p>\n<p><strong>\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The M.L. 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