The funding is in place. The construction teams have been selected. It’s almost time to break ground – finally – on a project that’s been a dream of transportation planners for a quarter century. That would be the Interstate 10 bridge and Bayway, a project that has its origins in the 1990s, when traffic first started to overwhelm the designed capacity of the Wallace Tunnel.
) - The funding is in place. The construction teams have been selected. It’s almost time to break ground – finally – on a project that’s been a dream of transportation planners for a quarter century., a project that has its origins in the 1990s, when traffic first started to overwhelm the designed capacity of the Wallace Tunnel.
There are still details to be worked out. Tony Harris, a spokesman for the Alabama Department of Transportation, told FOX10 News that the state is finalizing the contracts with two separate construction teams – one that will build a new bridge over the Mobile River and one that will build a new highway across Mobile Bay.For more than two decades, local leaders squabbled over where exactly to locate the bridge, its impact on the maritime industry and other issues.
“That’s a start, and hopefully, we’ll start turning some dirt over late in the year or early next year,” he said. “So I’m glad to finally see this come to fruition.” Alabama has a $125 million federal grant to go along with $250 million in state funding. Tolls will finance the rest of the project, but state officials have committed to removing the levies once the debt is paid.
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