CLARKSVILLE, TN (CLARKSVILLE NOW) – The City of Clarksville Street Department is making more progress on Spring Creek Parkway, Phase 2, with several bridge supports in place where it will cross Spring Creek itself.
“We are delighted to report that major construction headway is being made on an entirely new street in the City of Clarksville, that will be a game-changer in our efforts to substantially reduce traffic congestion along the key State of Tennessee highways of Trenton Road and Wilma Rudolph Boulevard,” Mayor Joe Pitts said in a press release.
“I want to take this opportunity to sincerely thank our Street Department under the leadership of David Smith, director, for continuing to aggressively move this vital road project from conception to reality. I believe all Clarksvillians will be pleased with the end result,” he said.
This second phase of the project includes work on the “Elester Garner Chapter of the Triple Nickel Bridge” spanning Spring Creek, and named in honor of the nation’s first all-Black U.S. Army parachute infantry test platoon, company and battalion.
“The bridge work is well under way, and the preponderance of the mass grading for Phase 2 of Spring Creek Parkway is already complete,” Smith said in the release.
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Four bridge columns on the north side are up. A recent key milestone in the bridge construction is the completion of sewer line relocation work for the installation of the third bridge pier. Work can now begin on the concrete footing for the south-side bridge columns.
Up next: Connecting to Wilma Rudolph Boulevard
Phase 2 – about 4,500 feet in length and valued at $28 million, plus engineering and property acquisition costs – will complete the connection between Trenton Road and Wilma Rudolph Boulevard, and it includes a new traffic signal at the Wilma Rudolph intersection with the new street.
Based on the overall project timetable and projected costs, the Street Department estimates that work on Spring Creek Parkway, Phase 2, is approximately one-third completed.
Finished connection to Trenton Road
This Phase 2 work was preceded by the first phase of Spring Creek Parkway extending from Trenton Road to Spring Creek, itself. Phase 1 was valued at just over $16 million, plus engineering and property acquisition costs.
What’s coming: Connecting to Ted Crozier Boulevard
Phase 3 will continue from Wilma Rudolph Boulevard to Ted Crozier Boulevard. A portion of Phase 3 will be paid for by the developers of the planned Freedom Farms, which will be built on both sides of Ted Crozier.
Spring Creek Parkway is a signature road improvement project in the comprehensive, city-wide Mayor’s Transportation 2020+ master plan for street and highway improvements, as well as improved intersections, new sidewalks, and traffic signalizations.
Spring Creek Parkway will have four travel lanes, a 10-feet-wide multimodal path, plus 5-feet-wide sidewalks. The full length of Spring Creek Parkway will be 2.435 miles.
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