KNOXVILLE, Tenn. (WVLT) – Wednesday marks three months since the City of Knoxville and the Tennessee Department of Transportation shut down the Gay Street Bridge after a routine inspection found a steel beam was compromised making the bridge unsafe.
A report by the American Road and Transportation Builders Association shows that three of Tennessee’s most traveled bridges that are structurally deficient are in Knox County.
The span of I-40 that crosses over University Avenue and 17th Street are traveled by just fewer than 140,000 vehicles a day…