Norfolk Southern will close the railroad crossing on SR-77/Gilbert Ferry Road in Attalla for work beginning Tuesday, March 10.
The crossing between US-11 and Attalla Industrial Park will remain closed until work is completed on Wednesday, March 11.
Detour route
Northbound traffic may take I-59 to US-431 to US-11 to return to SR-77 north of…
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ALDOT pretreated most state routes in North Alabama in the lead up to this weekend’s anticipated winters storm.
The pretreatment coverage, by county, in ALDOT’s North Region follows:
Colbert/Lauderdale/Franklin/Lawrence/Limestone/Morgan — all lanes and bridges of all state routes Madison — At least one lane in each direction on all routes and bridges and all lanes…Read More “Most North Alabama state routes pretreated ahead of winter storm”
About 17 miles of I-59 in northern Etowah County and southern DeKalb County will close Friday, Dec. 19, for repairs.
A significant segment of the southbound roadway between Reece City and Collinsville is being reconstructed by contractor Vulcan Materials. During the project, both directions of traffic have been sharing the northbound roadway.
For the contractor…
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Total contracts approach $240 million
ALDOT opened bids today for an I-59 reconstruction project to replace and rehabilitate parts of the aging southbound roadway in DeKalb County. The project is expected to push the total of contracts for the corridor’s reconstruction to nearly $240 million.
The project is the sixth in an ongoing effort to…
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New paint will help extend the useful life of what many Huntsville residents refer to as the “useless overpass.”
Cekra Inc., working on a $420,000 contract, will paint the overpass on US-231/SR-53/South Memorial Parkway in Huntsville as well as an overpass on I-759 in Gadsden.
Paint helps protect steel parts of a bridge from…
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Contractors for The Alabama Department of Transportation recently completed construction of two Restricted Crossing U-turn (RCUT) intersections in north Alabama.
In Lauderdale County, a $451,098 project with Rogers Group converted the intersection of US-43 and SR-64 in the Green Hill community north of Killen to an RCUT. In Etowah County, a $694,892 project installed an…
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State bridge inspectors will inspect the northbound SR-77 bridge over the Coosa River between Southside and Rainbow City on Monday, July 7.
ALDOT will close the one-lane “Little Bridge,” a truss bridge constructed in 1939, from about 8 a.m. until the routine inspection is complete. Northbound traffic will be diverted to one lane of the…
Several miles of the aging concrete I-59 roadway in southern DeKalb County and northern Etowah County closed this week for reconstruction.
The five-mile segment of I-59 southbound near the Stephens Gap Road overpass, north of Reece City, will remain closed about a year. Following substantial completion of this segment, Vulcan Materials, the contractor on the…
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ALDOT will close part of SR-211/Noccalula Road in Gadsden for tree cutting Wednesday, April 23.
The department anticipates work beginning about 9 a.m. and concluding before noon. Crews will remove a few dead trees from the state right-of-way.
Barricades will be positioned at the I-59 (Exit 188) interchange on the north end of the closure…
Motorists may experience a change in traffic patterns this week due to work to improve safety at an Etowah County intersection.
The $694,892 project to convert US-411 at Appalachian Highway near Turkeytown from a conventional intersection to a reduced conflict intersection (RCI) began in February.
The project includes construction of U-turn lanes and loons —…
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