The ongoing Middle Tennessee Boulevard road-widening
project will close both the Faulkinberry Drive and Bell Street campus entrances to traffic beginning Monday,
Dec. 18, until sometime in mid-January.
The spring semester begins Tuesday, Jan. 16, and these entrances may
still be closed at that time. Campus parking and transportation officials urge
motorists to make plans to avoid these areas. Maps detailing areas and
parking space impacted by this work can be found here.
The northernmost entrance to the Alma Mater Drive lot is scheduled
to remain open and will be used to continue the Raider Xpress “green route”
shuttles when classes resume.
Work continues to progress on the $15.7 million widening project,
which will upgrade the .8-mile section of the thoroughfare between East Main
and Greenland Drive. The city of Murfreesboro is overseeing the work, which is expected
to be completed in fall 2018.
The enhancement will also include divided landscaped medians, bike
lanes, improved sidewalks and lighting, new traffic signals, decorative
crosswalks and underground utilities.
When the project is complete, the west side of campus also will be
affected in the following ways:
• Traffic flow on Faulkinberry Drive will change to “right turn
in, right turn out” onto Middle Tennessee Boulevard.
• A pull-in area for buses will be added to the front of Murphy
Center.
• Pedestrian crossings with signals will be added at Lytle and
Division Streets, and crosswalks at Bell Street and Faulkinberry Drive will be
upgraded.
• Brick walls with signage will be erected at the corners of
Greenland Drive and Lytle, and another wall will be added at East Main Street,
to better define the university’s boundaries.
• Flagpoles will be erected at Faulkinberry Drive.
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