SR 317 is also known as Bonny Oaks Drive, Volkswagen Drive, Apison Pike, Wesleyan Road, and Weatherley Switch Road SE; it was formerly known as Old Lee Highway.

[2] In between Chattanooga and Collegedale SR 317 formerly went along Old Lee Highway to Apison Pike.

The Tennessee Department of Transportation (TDOT) is working to widen and improve the 6.2-mile (10.0 km) Apison Pike section of SR 317, located between I-75 and SR 320 (East Brainerd Road) in four separate phases.

[3] Phase 1 consisted of constructing a new five-lane (including two-way left turn lane) road between I-75 and Old Lee Highway, part of the relocated section of SR 317.

Phase 2, which took place between January 2015 and September 13, 2017, widened the segment between Old Lee Highway and SR 321 (Ooltewah-Ringgold Road) from two to five lanes at a cost of $24.2 million.