| The Exit 379 interchange of Interstate 40 & 75 links the freeway with Bridgewater Road, Gallaher View Road, and Walker Springs Roads. All three roadways traverse the Green Valley neighborhood area of west Knoxville. Walker Springs Road forms a frontage road along the westbound lanes of the freeway. Bridgewater and Gallaher View Roads travel north-south linking U.S. 11 & 70 with Middlebrook Pike and the Westborough section of the city. Photo taken 08/23/03. |
| Cedar Bluff Road intersects Interstate 40 & 75 via the Exit 378 interchange. Originally just a diamond interchange, Exit 378 now composes a partial cloverleaf with two ramps serving the respective directions to Cedar Bluff Road from Interstate 40 & 75 westbound. Cedar Bluff Road travels north-south between U.S. 11 & 70 (Kingston Pike) and Middlebrook Pike. Photo taken 08/23/03. |
| Diagrammatical overhead for the Interstate 40 & 75 junction with the Interstate 140 (Pellissippi Parkway) western terminus and Tennessee 162 (Exit 376A/B). A three-quarter partial cloverleaf interchange composes the junction between the two freeways. Directional ramps allow Tennessee 162 traffic high speed access to Interstate 40 & 75 to/from Knoxville. Photo taken 08/23/03. |
| Split of the Exit 376 collector/distributor roadway from the eight-lane Interstate 40 & 75 freeway. The 1995 opened freeway travels 11.17 miles between U.S. 129 (Alcoa Highway) at Rockford (pop. 798) northwestward to Tennessee 162 and Dutchtown Road. The freeway is planned to extended even further to the southeast, ultimately to Tennessee 33 and U.S. 321 outside of Maryville. Photo taken 08/23/03. |
| Interstate 40 & 75 westbound Exit 376A for Tennessee 162 (Pellissippi Parkway) northbound. The state highway travels 13 miles northwestward to Oak Ridge (pop. 27,387), home to the Oak Ridge National Laboratory and Testing Facility. Photo taken 08/23/03. |
| The Exit 376B cloverleaf ramp departs the westbound c/d roadway for the Interstate 140 eastbound beginning. Featured along the route are interchanges with U.S. 11 & 70 (Exit 1C/D), Westland Drive (Exit 3), Northshore Drive (Exit 5), Topside Road (Exit 9). and U.S. 129 (Exit 11).
The freeway carries four lanes of total capacity. Photo taken 08/23/03. |
| Serving the town of Farrugut (pop. 17,720) from Interstate 40 & 75 is Tennessee State Secondary 131 (Lovell Road). An advance guide sign is placed over the Exit 376 c/d roadway of westbound for the upcoming diamond interchange. Photo taken 08/23/03. |
| Interstate 40 & 75 westbound at the Lovell Road off-ramp (Exit 374). Tennessee State Secondary 131 loops from U.S. 11 & 70 (Kingston Pike) northward to Tennessee 62 (Oak Ridge Highway). Photo taken 08/23/03. |
| The final Knox County interchange of Interstate 40 & 75 is that of the Exit 369 diamond interchange with Watt Road. Attached to the Watt Road overpass is the one-mile diagrammatical overhead for the impending Interstate 40 west & 75 southbound split of Exit 368. Photo taken 08/23/03.
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| Interstate 40 west and Interstate 75 southbound are each allocated two lanes at the Exit 368 split. A tri-level stack interchange facilitates the movements between the two mainline Interstate highways. Both freeways depart the Knoxville metropolitan area into rural environs within Loudon County. Photo taken 08/23/03. |
| Interstate 75 southbound departs via the Exit 368 off-ramp of Interstate 40. 79 miles separate Interstate 40 with the city of Chattanooga (pop. 155,554). Westward Interstate 40 travels another 147 miles before reaching the capital city of Nashville (pop. 545,524). It should be mentioned that the junction between the two Interstates here will eventually see a third Interstate tie into the fold. The planned north Knoxville belt line (Interstate 475) will extend Interstate 75 northward from Exit 368/Exit 84 to Interstate 75 near the town of Clinton (pop. 9,409). Construction of the four to six lane freeway was planned between 2006 and 2008, however that is unclear as of late 2007. Photo taken 08/23/03. |
Page Updated April 2, 2008.
