County road project almost complete
By SUSAN LEATHERS
Brentwood Home Page
By the end of the week, a drive on Murray Lane between Granny White Pike and Holly Tree Gap Road should be smooth from end to end.

“We’re going to start paving this week,” Eddie Hood, head of the Williamson County Highway Department, told BHP on Tuesday. Motorists will be detoured around the work via Johnson Chapel Road to Granny White or Holly Tree Gap Road to Franklin Road.

In 2001, the City of Brentwood upgraded and widened Murray Lane from Granny White Pike west to the city limits. The project widened lanes and added a six-foot bike lane on each side. Approximately eight feet was cut into the crest of the hill to accommodate the work. The city also enlarged the water line on Murray Lane from the pump station at the city limits to Granny White Pike to improve future water capacity requirements

The portion of the two-lane road that remained in the county, however, became progressively riddled with potholes. The 2010 flood also took a toll on that portion of the road, which is paralleled by a tributary of the Little Harpeth River.

Hood said all of the infrastructure work on the road, including new piping at several spots, is now complete. New asphalt will start going down Wednesday with the project complete by the end of the week. The predicted high temperatures actually will be beneficial, Hood said.

This portion of Murray will not have bike lanes, like the stretch improved by the city 10 years ago.

“We have a creek on one side and driveways on the other,” Hood said of the county portion. It won’t be any wider, either, he said, but at least “it won’t have potholes in it.”