Signals still pending
This traffic signal structure at the intersection of Mariner Point Road and Tennessee Route 61 doesn’t light up yet. The city of Clinton is still waiting on a control cabinet for the new lights. (photo:Ben Pounds )
Clinton City Manager Roger Houck told The Courier News that the city is waiting on a control cabinet for the new signals to arrive from California.
The city also is working on pavement markings and advance warning signs, he said.
The lights will control traffic coming to and from the Anderson County Senior Center and the adjacent neighborhood.
Houck said that once the signals are ready, they will flash for 14 days before becoming fully operational.
“I’m sure it will take a little bit of getting used to,” he said.
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Houck said the city is waiting to complete the downtown project before moving on to other infrastructure priorities.
Once that work is finished, the city plans a paving project for roads, parking lots and paths in several locations.
“We’ve got some parking lots and paths that haven’t been paved in several years, so we want to focus on that,” he said.
He referenced a study from the Knoxville Regional Transportation Planning Organization.
“There’s a few critical streets on it, so we’ll probably try to do those, too,” Houck said, adding that the goal is to complete the work in late summer or early fall.
He said the city did no paving between the mid-1990s and 2012, but has completed about $7 million in paving projects since 2015.
Regarding the ongoing sidewalk, street, landscaping, broadband, water and sewer work downtown, Houck said he hopes July 4 celebrations for the nation’s 250th anniversary will draw people to the area.
The city expects the downtown work to be completed by then.
“It’s also to hopefully show people what our new product is and get them to come back downtown,” Houck said.
The event will not allow outside vendors.
“It will strictly be for the shops downtown,” he said.
The city also is renovating the former National Guard armory at Jaycee Park into a daycare center for city employees’ children, which will be operated by the Boys & Girls Clubs of the Tennessee Valley.
“It’s going to be a huge benefit, and it’s going to be good for the employees,” Houck said.
