re: Vol reporter Wes Rucker dead in fatal car crash

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That ~20 miles stretch feels like a death trap, traffic is moving way too fast with how distracted people are and how often it comes to a complete standstill.

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Lived in Nashville for a decade and moved back to Knoxville a few years ago. Nashville traffic is way worse in total congestion (you can find yourself inching forwards on all sorts of roads) but I40 through Knoxville is crazy dangerous.

You can be going on 40 West through downtown at 65-70 mph, take a corner and have visibility obscured due to interstate ramps then suddenly encounter standstill traffic around 17th and Sutherland. Nashville traffic drove me mad. Knoxville traffic scares me sometimes. Nothing like hitting the brakes hard on the interstate and hoping the truck behind you wont run you over

I don’t know what the solution is but I’m hoping something can improve because of this tragedy

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Yeah, Pelli has gotten stupid crazy with Harden Valley expanding. Whomever is making decisions on these roads needs to reevaluate and quit sucking. We need a bypass somewhere. The downtown bypass that passes old east town mall just relays back to papermill on top of the northern traffic traveling Chatt/Nash. It really is just a mess all around on top of 3/4 of Knoxvillians that can’t grasp the concept on how to drive.

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The Orange Route was originally proposed in 1977, study was completed in 2002, and it was thrown out by TDOT in 2010. A 36.5 mile by-pass from Watt Road to Heiskel would have taken a ton of traffic out of West Knoxville. Now, even if they did decide to build it, the finished product would take 15-20 years to complete.