{"id":69001,"date":"2026-04-16T06:12:37","date_gmt":"2026-04-16T06:12:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/69001\/"},"modified":"2026-04-16T06:12:37","modified_gmt":"2026-04-16T06:12:37","slug":"project-to-widen-old-lebanon-dirt-road-in-mt-juliet-tn-to-start-by-june","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/69001\/","title":{"rendered":"Project to widen Old Lebanon Dirt Road in Mt. Juliet, TN to start by June"},"content":{"rendered":"

MT. JULIET, Tenn. (WKRN) \u2014\u00a0A road project that has been long overdue in Mt. Juliet is finally moving forward after years of discussion.\u00a0<\/p>\n

City commissioners selected a contractor to begin the widening of Old Lebanon Dirt Road this week. One commissioner told News 2 this road is narrow, dangerous, and prone to crashes.\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n

\u201cOne of the biggest issues here in the city is roads, so here we are,\u201d\u00a0District 4 Commissioner Jennifer Milele\u00a0said.\u00a0<\/p>\n

According to Milele, traffic is often the number one complaint, but on Old Lebanon Dirt Road, the concern centers around safety.\u00a0<\/p>\n

\u201cIt just twists and turns, and it\u2019s just narrow altogether and lack of shoulders \u2014 it\u2019s\u00a0just a very dangerous road,\u201d Milele described.<\/p>\n

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For years, Mt. Juliet officials talked about widening the road.<\/p>\n

\u201cDecades, literally\u2026 This is just a perfect example of these city capital road widening projects of how long they take,\u201d Milele said.<\/p>\n

Earlier this week, city commissioners approved a contractor to begin the construction phase. The project will widen two miles of Old Lebanon Dirt Road from\u00a0Moreland\u00a0Drive to Chandler Road, in addition to installing a\u00a010-foot\u00a0trail or multi-use path on the south side of the road.<\/p>\n

\u201cThis\u00a0has been\u00a0a long\u00a0time in the making, and this is the first of many steps in finally getting the orange cones out on the streets,\u201d District 3 Commissioner\u00a0Scott Hefner explained at a Mt. Juliet Board of Commissioners meeting.<\/p>\n

\u23e9\u00a0Read today\u2019s top stories on wkrn.com<\/a><\/p>\n

While it took years to get to this point, Milele said there has been a lot of planning\u00a0going\u00a0behind the scenes.<\/p>\n

\u201cThere\u00a0are\u00a0so many phases. There\u2019s planning, there\u2019s design, there\u2019s engineering, there\u2019s environmental,\u201d Milele said.\u00a0<\/p>\n

Besides improving safety,\u00a0the project will also address poor drainage and flooding issues along the road.\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n

A spokesperson\u00a0for the city of\u00a0Mt.\u00a0Juliet\u00a0said\u00a0construction on the project is expected to begin by\u00a0June.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"MT. JULIET, Tenn. (WKRN) \u2014\u00a0A road project that has been long overdue in Mt. Juliet is finally moving…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":69002,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[32],"tags":[93,24275,25792,13269],"class_list":["post-69001","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-lebanon","tag-lebanon","tag-mt-juliet","tag-old-lebanon-dirt-road","tag-wilson-county"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@iran\/116412910399130606","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/69001","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=69001"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/69001\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/69002"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=69001"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=69001"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=69001"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}