On Oct. 14, the Knoxville City Council approved a new greenway connecting the Fort Sanders and Tyson Park neighborhoods. The new greenway will extend from Clinch Avenue to Tyson Park’s Third Creek greenway.
The greenway comes after the 2015 City Bicycle Facilities Plan, identifying it as the city’s second most important project out of 120 others. What makes this project so important are its implications for bicyclists and commuter safety.
“Right now, anyone on their bike downtown, to get through and out of Fort Sanders, has to ride down to Cumberland Avenue where there’s a lot of vehicles and the sidewalk is very narrow,” Shawn Fitzpatrick, Knoxville’s civil engineering chief, said. “This project removes that bottleneck and safety issue at Cumberland Avenue.”…