On Wednesday, the Williamson County Highway Department approved a concept plan for more than 100 projects in the next 15 years.
The plan, drafted by RPM Transportation and Collier Engineeering, contained $150 million worth of road improvements in two phases.
A short term plan, to be completed by 2020, was estimated to cost $24 million and a long term plan, to be done by 2030, was estimated to cost an additional $125 million.
The plan contains 103 projects on four major corridors- Sneed Road, Clovercroft Road, Lynnwood Way/South Berrys Chapel Road, Arno Road and Henpeck Lane- for traffic to remain at a serviceably acceptable, and safe, level as the county’s population and traffic grows through 2030.
“We are passing this so we can begin the process, over the next five or six years, of addressing these roads in our community, keeping in mind many of these roads will have involvement from developers, as subdivisions move into these communities,” said Williamson County Mayor Rogers Anderson. “They will have to share in the cost of these projects as we go down the road, keeping it off the backs solely of our taxpayers.”
The cost of the project was the main concern of the Highway Commissioners.
“We are working on a two-pronged approach to this,” said Chad Collier with Collier Engineering said. “One is looking at the projects the county highway department can do itself, and the other is projects that will have to be contracted out.”
The county can save about 40 percent on projects it can undertake itself, he said.
Arno Road, for example, the plan estimated would cost $9 million. After calculating the cost if only the county Highway Department did the work, Collier said it would cost $5 million.
About 55 percent of the projects will involve other governmental bodies, such as the Tennessee Department of Transportation, Rutherford County or the cities of Franklin, Brentwood, Nolensville and Spring Hill. The other 45 percent of the projects, the county can work on itself.
“I met with the TDOT Commissioner and the Mayor of Franklin on Tuesday morning to go over how we are going integrate them into our plan, and they gave their wholehearted support,” said Williamson County Mayor Rogers Anderson.
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