Mardi Gras season is rolling back into South Alabama for 2026, bringing a festive mix of parades, beads, Moon Pies, and yes, extra traffic.
While celebrations begin early along the Gulf Coast, including Dauphin Island’s long-standing tradition as one of the first communities to parade each season, downtown Mobile’s parade schedule gets underway Friday,...
Read More "Mardi Gras 2026: Let the good times (and traffic) roll across the Gulf Coast"The Alabama Department of Transportation (ALDOT) will host a come-and-go style public involvement meeting to discuss a potential project on SR-261 (Helena Road) and CR-52 to include intersection improvements, widening and sidewalk upgrades.
The widening of SR-261 will accommodate a center turn lane from Roy Drive
to CR-52 E.
Ther proposed project would widen CR-52E to…
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The public involvement meeting for the proposed SR-167 widening project from Salem Road to SR-51 in Enterprise is indefinitely postponed. The Alabama Department of Transportation (ALDOT) will notify the community when a new date is scheduled.
The ALDOT in-person and online meeting was to be held on Tuesday, Dec. 9.
For more information on…
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Each year, employees from the Alabama Department of Transportation (ALDOT) cut down, haul, install and help decorate the official state Christmas tree that sits at the top of the Capitol steps facing Dexter Avenue in Montgomery.
The State of Alabama’s official Christmas tree for the 2025 holiday season. ALDOT employees cut down the tree at…Read More “ALDOT brings official state Christmas tree from Fitzpatrick, Ala.”
ALDOT’s Birmingham District team is defined by their undeniable flexibility.
Every day, hundreds of thousands of motorists pour through Jefferson County’s five interstates and countless other U.S. and Alabama highways.
That level of congestion and traffic flow requires the ability to adapt to adversity on a regular basis.
“There’s no telling how many times their…
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Another four-mile segment of I-59 northbound in DeKalb County will close for reconstruction as a $41 million project enters its second phase.
Weather permitting, contractor Wiregrass Construction will shift traffic from the northbound roadway to the inside lane of the southbound roadway north of Hammondville either this afternoon or Tuesday, Dec. 2. The shift will…
ALDOT will convert the intersection of US-431 and Buck Island Drive in Guntersville to a Restricted Crossing U-Turn (RCUT) intersection to improve safety.
The RCUT plan includes installing channelizing curbs and flexible posts on Buck Island Drive and in the median crossover to prevent left turns from the side street. Instead, drivers will make a…
An Alabama Department of Transportation (ALDOT) resurfacing project on I-85 in Macon County begins soon.
The contractor will begin installing signs in preparation for the project on Monday, Dec. 1, weather permitting.
This project includes resurfacing, guardrail installation, and traffic striping on I-85 from a mile south of exit 22 in Shorter to the CR-36…
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The Alabama Department of Transportation (ALDOT) plans to improve access management on US-84 from CR-709 to CR-1 in Level Plains.
The project, presented to the public in February 2025, includes limiting left turns by converting the intersections of CR-709 and CR-445 into an RCUT to reduce the number of conflict points that often lead to…
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The Alabama Department of Transportation (ALDOT) plans to resurface and perform access management along a stretch of US-82 from near Echola Road to near Buhl Cut-off Road in western Tuscaloosa County to improve mobility and safety.
The 4.79-mile project is scheduled to begin Monday, Dec. 1, and will continue until late summer 2026, weather permitting….
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The new SR-247 bridge over Little Bear Creek northeast of Red Bay in Franklin County opened to traffic today.
Riley Bridge Company substantially completed the $3.3 million project in slightly more than a year. The project included demolition of a 1963 bridge and construction of a wider, safer bridge in its place.
Part of the…
