State vows to speed up roadwork on Elvis Presley Boulevard
Construction crews work in front of the entrance of the Guest House at Graceland on Elvis Presley Boulevard. (Patrick Lantrip/The Daily Memphian)
TDOT Commissioner Will Reid and Mayor Paul Young met twice this week after a stormy public meeting in Whitehaven recently, where those involved in the joint project told residents it wouldn’t be completed until 2031.
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Bill Dries covers city and county government and politics. He is a native Memphian and has been a reporter for almost 50 years covering a wide variety of stories from the 1977 death of Elvis Presley and the 1978 police and fire strikes to numerous political campaigns, every county mayor and every Memphis Mayor starting with Wyeth Chandler.
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