City Changing Timing on Traffic Signals along Ringgold Road

East Ridge city officials announced Friday that timing on traffic signals along Ringgold Road will be adjusted to facilitate traffic flow.

In a press release officials state that due to heavy congestion on Ringgold Road, the City of East Ridge has implemented a Time of Day Coordinated Traffic Signal Plan. The Plan includes all signalized intersections on Ringgold Road including side street approaches. As result of this Plan, traffic congestion and wait times on Ringgold Road have decreased.

Unfortunately, there are increased wait times for side street approaches. If you are affected by these changes, please plan accordingly.

About Dick Cook

Dick Cook has lived in East Ridge since the Kennedy Administration when his parents bought a house on Marietta Street. Dick graduated from ERHS in 1976 before going on to the University of Tennessee at Chattanooga where he studied Political Science. Dick worked for the Chattanooga Free-Press and the Chattanooga Times Free Press for 22 years. Free-Press Sports Editor Roy Exum plucked him out of production in 1989 and gave him a job as a sports reporter. Dick covered everything from prep sports to the whitewater events on the Ocoee River for the 1996 Olympics. When Chattanooga's two paper's merged, he became the Crime Reporter covering both the Chattanooga Police and Fire Departments. He was among reporters who were honored by the Associated Press for the TFP's coverage of the 2002 fog-shrouded crash on I-75 in Catoosa County, Dick and his wife, Cathy, live on Marlboro Avenue where they are seen frequently chasing around their three grandsons.