State Route 317 (SR 317) a state highway extending from Chattanooga, Tennessee, through Ooltewah, Collegedale, Apison, and ending in Bradley County. SR 317 is also known as Bonny Oaks Drive, Volkswagen Drive, Apison Pike, Wesleyan Road, and Weatherley Switch Road SE; it was formerly known as Old Lee Highway. It dead ends into SR 60 in Bradley County. In Chattanooga, this road crosses SR 58.[2]
 State Route 317 | ||||
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| Route information | ||||
| Maintained by TDOT | ||||
| Length | 21.3 mi (34.3 km) | |||
| Existed | July 1, 1983[1]–present | |||
| Major junctions | ||||
| West end |  SR 17 in Chattanooga | |||
| East end |  SR 60 near Red Clay State Park | |||
| Location | ||||
| Country | United States | |||
| State | Tennessee | |||
| Counties | Hamilton, Bradley | |||
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History
editIn between Chattanooga and Collegedale SR 317 formerly went along Old Lee Highway to Apison Pike. It has been since rerouted with the completion of the Volkswagen Drive exit on I-75. It now joins I-75 at exit 7 and runs concurrently with I-75 to exit 9, where SR 317 turns along Volkswagen Drive to Apison Pike.
The Tennessee Department of Transportation (TDOT) is working to widen and improve the 6.2-mile (10.0 km) Apison Pike section of SR 317, located between I-75 and SR 320 (East Brainerd Road) in four separate phases.[3] Phase 1 consisted of constructing a new five-lane (including two-way left turn lane) road between I-75 and Old Lee Highway, part of the relocated section of SR 317. Phase 2, which took place between January 2015 and September 13, 2017, widened the segment between Old Lee Highway and SR 321 (Ooltewah-Ringgold Road) from two to five lanes at a cost of $24.2 million.[4] Phase 3, which began on March 13, 2020, and is expected to be completed by June 2025, is the most complex and expensive phase, at a cost of $93.1 million. It involves widening the route from two to five lanes between SR 321 and Layton Lane and will consist of an entirely new alignment in some places.[5] Phase 4, the final phase, will widen SR 317 between Layton Lane and SR 320.[3]
Junction list
editThis section is missing mileposts for junctions. |
| County | Location | mi | km | Destinations | Notes |
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| Hamilton | Chattanooga | 0.0 | 0.0 |    SR 17 (Bonny Oaks Drive) to SR 58 / SR 153 – Chattanooga, Harrison | Western terminus |
| SR 153 – Soddy Daisy, Lakesite, Chattanooga | SR 153 exit 4 | ||||
| Tyner |     US 11 south / US 64 west (Lee Highway/SR 2 west) – Chattanooga | Western end of US 11/US 64/SR 2 concurrency | |||
   I-75 south / US 74 west – Chattanooga, Atlanta | Western end of I-75/US 74 concurrency; I-75/US 74 exit 7 | ||||
| Ooltewah |    I-75 north / US 11 north / US 64 east / US 74 east (SR 2 east) – Cleveland, Knoxville | Eastern end of I-75/US 11/US 64/US 74/SR 2 concurrency; I-75/US 11/US 64/SR 2 exit 9 | |||
| Collegedale |  SR 321 (Ooltewah Ringgold Road) – Ringgold, Ooltewah | ||||
| Bradley | | Red Clay Park Road Southwest – Red Clay State Park | |||
| | 21.3 | 34.3 | SR 60 (Dalton Pike) – Cleveland, Dalton | Eastern terminus | |
1.000 mi = 1.609 km; 1.000 km = 0.621 mi
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References
edit- ^ "The Road To 100 Years" (PDF). Tennessee Road Builder. Vol. 17, no. 5. September 2014. p. 22. Retrieved April 6, 2019.
- ^ "TN-317" (Map). Google Maps.
- ^ a b "State Route 317 (Apison Pike)". Tennessee Department of Transportation. Retrieved August 20, 2020.
- ^ "TDOT Holds Ribbon Cutting on SR-317 (Apison Pike) Project in Collegedale" (Press release). Tennessee Department of Transportation. September 13, 2017. Retrieved August 20, 2020.
- ^ "Tennessee Breaks Ground on $93M Highway Project". AASHTO Journal. March 20, 2020. Retrieved August 20, 2020.