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The Highways Around Us
At the LWVGB meeting on Wednesday, January 27, 2010, members and guests were brought up to date on major highway construction in our area. Recently, a three-city (Mtn. Brook, Homewood, and Vestavia) grassroots organization funded a study by the highway engineering & design firm Gladding-Jackson that focused on finding a way to reduce congestion on Highway 280 through limited interchanges. Guest speakers Temple Tutwiler and Phillip Morris, who represented that group, presented the plan. An ALDOT engineer, Brian Davis, brought us up to date on a new plan funded by ALDOT and planned by FIGG Engineering & Design that aims to improve congestion on Highway 280 with an elevated highway. In addition, Alison Howell and Renee Carter, representatives from the Birmingham Business Alliance (BBA), described the plans and progress of the Northern Beltway.
Attendees had many questions for the presenters expressing great interest in the route of the highways, sources of funding, ongoing costs to taxpayers and users, and environmental and commercial impact. Some noted that public transit alternatives were not a part of the plan and that the current outdated 1901 Alabama Constitution does not allow ALDOT funds to be used for this purpose.
The meeting was held in the Electra Room at Alabama Power, 600 North 18th Street in downtown Birmingham.
At the LWVGB meeting on Wednesday, January 27, 2010, members and guests were brought up to date on major highway construction in our area. Recently, a three-city (Mtn. Brook, Homewood, and Vestavia) grassroots organization funded a study by the highway engineering & design firm Gladding-Jackson that focused on finding a way to reduce congestion on Highway 280 through limited interchanges. Guest speakers Temple Tutwiler and Phillip Morris, who represented that group, presented the plan. An ALDOT engineer, Brian Davis, brought us up to date on a new plan funded by ALDOT and planned by FIGG Engineering & Design that aims to improve congestion on Highway 280 with an elevated highway. In addition, Alison Howell and Renee Carter, representatives from the Birmingham Business Alliance (BBA), described the plans and progress of the Northern Beltway.
Attendees had many questions for the presenters expressing great interest in the route of the highways, sources of funding, ongoing costs to taxpayers and users, and environmental and commercial impact. Some noted that public transit alternatives were not a part of the plan and that the current outdated 1901 Alabama Constitution does not allow ALDOT funds to be used for this purpose.
The meeting was held in the Electra Room at Alabama Power, 600 North 18th Street in downtown Birmingham.