Children’s Hospital has just announced that there will be traffic detours as a result of construction on their new facility through January 2, 2010.
Motorists will want to avoid 5th Avenue South between 16th and 17th Streets. We’re assuming that you’ll want to definitely avoid it around evening rush hour – though it is the holidays so traffic may be reduced just enough where it may not affect things that much.
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Tagged AL, Alabama, Birmingham, Children's Hospital, construction, information, issues, new building, traffic
Well, we figured it would become a bigger story – and it did (with a bigger dollar amount attached). The Birmingham News reported on Birmingham mayor Larry Langford’s proposed $16 million/year plan in today’s edition after Langford announced his intentions to ask the City Council to approve $27 million to pave streets in the city center during his appearance at the Burger-Phillips Building‘s unveiling late last week. The plan according to the story is to pave 500 miles over the next three years, leading some to ask that question more of the same questions…
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Tagged AL, Alabama, Birmingham, Larry Langford, proposal, street paving
Screenshot of Commuter Feed
So, you’re sitting in traffic along U.S. 280 and you’re wondering just what’s keeping you from continuing your journey. CommuterFeed.com seems like it could be the next answer to our need for that kind of information.
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Tagged Alabama, bhamterminal, Birmingham, Commuterfeed.com, Traffic.com, Twitter
Conservation Alabama took the time late last night to post an entry about a request for questions and comments regarding the proposed Northern Beltline that was published in yesterday’s Birmingham News, but not on the department’s website (though we are not sure that it is required).
We won’t necessarily bore you with the details of the post; we’d rather you take it upon yourself to read the entry. We will say that several of the questions raised deal with the long term effects of the construction of the road. What we will do is post the contact information if you feel so inclined to write a letter to Brian Davis, ALDOT Division 3 Engineer, during this holiday season. We have a feeling that some of you may want to:
Mr. Brian Davis – Division Engineer
Third Division – Alabama Department of Transportation
1020 Bankhead Highway West 35204
P.O. Box 2745
Birmingham, AL 35202-2745
Attn.: Mrs. Sandra F. P. Bonner
Posted in Birmingham, Regionwide, traffic
Not only does Mississippi not fight with us over water, it doesn’t fight with us over traffic either. Our neighbor to the west and Tennessee have joined Alabama in a “Take Back Our Highways” blitz during this Thanksgiving holiday week starting … yesterday. Yes, that’s why you saw a bunch of troopers on the road during your commute. The crackdown continues through Sunday. So we say without apologies, don’t be a “turkey” and get a ticket. Besides, who wants to meet a state trooper upset about missing his grandmother’s pumpkin pie.
Birmingham News staffer Stan Diel provided even more reasons to slow down this week in Monday’s paper.
Hint, be extra careful on the roads today.
Posted in Alabama, Regionwide, traffic
Future Corridor X signage near AL mile marker 57. Photo credit: André Natta
The word came down earlier this week that two (2) sections of Corridor X (a.k.a. the future I-22) are scheduled to be opened to the public just in time for the holiday travel season. You can now count on enjoying those 4 lanes of limited highway access to Memphis to Jasper beginning November 14, leaving only 5 more miles to be completed to connect it to I-65.
A road widening project for where the interchange will be installed is already starting, with that final stretch of road to be completed by 2010 according to state transportation officials. The folks in Mississippi seem really excited as evidenced by this story that originally ran in the Northeast Mississippi Daily Journal yesterday.
UPDATE 11.5.2007, 10:15:58 a.m., Post updated to include picture.
Posted in Alabama, Regionwide, traffic
It’s no secret that more state toopers will be on local highways starting today through Friday so if you get a ticket, it’s your own fault. Everybody’s already tried to warn you:
The Alabama Department of Public Safety is calling the statewide blitz “Take Back Our Highways” and is putting ALL its man/woman power on the road, even the desk jockeys. In a press release, DPS Director Col. J. Christopher Murphy said the increase in Alabama traffic deaths – at their highest level since 1973 – prompted the initiative.
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