The contractor chosen to build toll lanes on Interstate 24 between Nashville and Murfreesboro is promising Tennessee even more money than in its original proposal.
The project will construct 26 miles of paid traffic lanes. The Tennessee Department of Transportation refers to them as “choice lanes” because it says no current travel lanes will be reduced, and those will still be available at no cost.
When the group, DriveTN, was originally chosen for the project, it offered to pay the state nearly $25 billion in concession fees. That’s in addition to covering the cost of constructing the new lanes, which is estimated at $9.2 billion…