Two years ago, the Alabama Department of Transportation tried something new amid the perennial Fourth of July bottleneck on Interstate 10. For two days just before the holiday, ALDOT diverted big trucks off of I-10 to the Cochrane-Africatown USA Bridge. It seemed to be a huge success. The department said at the time that removing 13 percent of the vehicles cut congestion in the Wallace Tunnel in half.
) - Two years ago, the Alabama Department of Transportation tried something new amid the perennial Fourth of July bottleneck on Interstate 10.
Statistics from the agency suggest only a modest bump in traffic – 74,800 vehicles passed in both directions through the Wallace Tunnel, with 77,197 on Friday and 71,132 on Saturday. That is not much more than a typical day, but ALDOT officials said the road was overloaded during peak times – more than 5,000 from 7 a.m. to 8 a.m. on Friday, for instance.“It was backed up and going about 5, 10 miles per hour.
According to ALDOT, those teams are hard at work, with an expected groundbreaking in the early to middle part of next year. The state plans to apply for a so-called mega-grant to help defray the construction costs. Until then, though, drivers have limited options. Gordon said people can avoid peak times, if they can. And he said ALDOT will have signs on major roads near I-10.
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