The road repair on U.S. Highway 127 on Signal Mountain is cracked where a section of the southbound lane once slid off the mountain. / Tim Barber. Times Free Press.SIGNAL MOUNTAIN, HAMILTON COUNTY -
(Times Free Press) - A cracked section of pavement on U.S. Highway 127 on Signal Mountain -- in the same area where the road fell off into the gorge in 2009 -- will be patched and monitored, according to the state Department of Transportation.
"Nothing is settling; everything is OK," TDOT spokeswoman Jennifer Flynn said last week after maintenance crews inspected the area near Palisades Drive that runs between a massive rock face and a sheer drop to the Tennessee River.
However, a new TDOT study says U.S. 127 between Suck Creek Road and Palisades Drive "has been experiencing a significant degradation for several years resulting in large rockslides, roadway failures and traffic delays" and "contains one of the 10 most hazardous rock fall sites in the state of Tennessee."
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