July 12, 2018
By: Dwayne Page
Bright Hill Road will soon be repaved from Highway 70 to Hooper Road.
Tinsley Asphalt of Tullahoma was recently awarded a bid to resurface the road. The contract is for $284,000 and will cover 2.77 miles.
Although it is partly a city street and county road, Bright Hill is included on the state aid road system which makes it eligible for state funding. According to Road Supervisor Butch Agee 98% of the costs associated with the resurfacing of the road will be funded by the state and the remaining 2% will be paid from the county highway department budget.
Agee said this project has been a long time in coming.
“It really needs it (resurfacing). It’s a bad road. I never dreamed it wouldn’t be on the state aid road list but when I first came into office I got to checking and found out it it wasn’t so I went through the state to get it on the list to be able to afford to pave it. That took a while but I finally managed to do that,” said Road Supervisor Agee.
Work should begin within a few days.
“I have talked to the contractor and he said they anticipate putting up the construction signs next week and then they will have to go in there and do some ditching and pull the shoulders to get ready for the paving. Once they get all their prep work done, they will begin paving hopefully by the first of August,” Agee continued.
Other state aid road projects completed during Agee’s term as Road Supervisor include repaving or micro-surfacing a portion of Student’s Home, South Tittsworth, Jacobs Pillar, and Holmes Creek Road. State aid bridges replaced within the last four years include the Possum Hollow, Underhill Road at Blue Springs, and Holmes Creek Road Bridge in Smithville.