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Portion of Western Avenue reopens

8:54 PM, May 17, 2013

Western Avenue has been closed between Keith and Richmond Avenues for the past few weeks while a KUB contractor works on improvements to the wastewater system.

State Street overpass to open Friday

11:02 PM, May 16, 2013

The overpass from the State Street garage to the former escalator landing is set to open Friday, according to the State Street Garage blog.

Section of Lyons View Pike reopens to the public

9:35 PM, May 16, 2013

KUB has completed construction in zone one of the Lyons View Pike project. The section of Lyons View between Kingston Pike and Colony Way has reopened to traffic.

TDOT maintenance work will affect web services

3:13 PM, May 16, 2013

Emergency maintenance will be performed this weekend on the James K. Polk Building in downtown Nashville, which houses the Tennessee Department of Transportation's (TDOT) headquarters offices. This maintenance will cause outages to many TDOT web-based services.

Knoxville's Gay St. to be closed Sunday morning

1:49 PM, May 14, 2013

A portion of Gay Street will be closed from 6 a.m. to 12:30 p.m. on Sunday, May 19th, to allow a roofing contractor to use a construction crane. During those hours, the street will be closed from Wall Avenue to Union Avenue.