Tennessee taps road-building group for $9B toll lanes project

By: Sam Stockard

Outlets: Tennessee Lookout

Published: August 20, 2026

Words: 901

Last Updated: 2 weeks, 5 days ago

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A Tennessee transportation board selected a road-building group Wednesday to fund and build toll lanes from the southeast Nashville area to Murfreesboro as part of a package in which the contractor locked up the bid by agreeing to pay the state nearly $25 billion over the life of a 50-year contract.

The Transportation Modernization Board voted unanimously to hire a six-company partnership called DriveTN made up of Transurban, an Australian global transportation company, …

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