Good. Birmingham needs to be bypassed.......................
38 years to complete? Something very wrong with that picture for sure.
Having lived in B’ham, this is certainly needed, and certainly will be needed in 38? years.
Houston is on its way to completing its 3rd loop around the city, and San Antonio is working on its 2nd.
I’ve driven I59 through Birmingham and they need it, but 40 years makes it a boondoggle.
One of the biggest mistakes made in the Atlanta area was not building the ‘northern loop’ to bypass the north Atlanta suburbs. If just the section from I-75 to I-20 had been completed the massive number of tractor-trailers coming down I-75 to the Atlanta area would have been greatly reduced.
Thanks to the environmentalists who filed a series of never ending lawsuits we have increased pollution, increased traffic accidents and longer drive times. Sounds like they’re playing the same game in Birmingham.
Montgomery has a similar boondoggle with the “outer loop” which will take forever to finish, and they don’t have to move any mountains. Furthermore, it goes south, while all of the growth in the area is to the north.