Start: Alton, LA – End: Lookout Mountain, GA
Start: Lookout Mtn, GA – End: Cookeville, TN
Est. Length: 84 miles.
Benefits: Economic Growth, Environmental/Fuel, Population Centers, Existing Highways
Connecting: TN: Cookeville, Chattanooga. GA: Lookout Mtn. AL: Birmingham/Hoover. MS: Meridian, Hattiesburg. LA: New Orleans.
Intersections: I-40, Cookeville; I-75/81 Chattanooga, I-30, Scottsboro; I-22, I-20, Birmingham; I-14, Meridian-Hattiesburg. I-10, Slidell.
Description
With a co-signed route with I-24, the I-59 extension from its current terminus at Lookout Mountain, Georgia to Cookeville, Tennessee and utilization of US-27 might then be extended to Cookeville, Tennessee utilizing SR-111 north of Sparta. The suggested route along the Marion and counties border via Signal Mountain to Soddy-Daisy might provide a western Chattanooga Loop Interstate. Future extensions north might extend I-59 to Terre Haute, Indiana via Owensboro/Evansville or Louisville, Kentucky via Somerset.
Such Interstate suggestions might be considered ‘housekeeping’, as the Interstate highway system seems to randomly abandon some Interstate routes, or perhaps original extension plans were never completed.
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