Birmingham leaders haven"t been shy about expressing concerns over the state"s elevated Highway 280 plan but relaying the message to the governor wasn"t so easy ...
Birmingham City Council approved a resolution urging Governor Bob Riley and ALDOT to consider alternative plans to solve Highway 280 traffic congestion ...
The city of Chelsea is in favor of a resolution to support ALDOT's efforts to relieve congestion on Highway 280. Chelsea residents say it's about time! ... Jackie Branch travels Highway 280 everyday from Chelsea to Birmingham ... "On a good day or a bad day? On a good day, hour 15 on a bad day it can take over two hours," Branch says. ... She's not the only one. Thousands of cars roll down the stretch of congested highway daily ... "I hate it, I get to the place where I will take 65 to avoid
It may not be perfect, but the elevated toll road from Double Oak Mountain to I-459 is the only project on the table to relieve congestion on Highway 280 ... The City of Hoover is officially on board but Birmingham City Council members are not fans ... not even a little bit ... Their primary gripe ... there's no plan to include light rail ... Councilor Johnathan Austin says to not include light rail would be a huge disappointment. "We're not saying we do not want the toll road. We're saying
Another city considers the governor's plan to get rid of the traffic congestion ... Business owners agree something has to be done with the traffic, but the elevated highway toll plan may not be the answer they are looking for ... Llyod's Restaurant owner Eli Stevens times the traffic lights on Highway 280. He thinks the problem lies in the traffic lights ... "Biggest problem with 280 is that the lights aren't staying green for one minute and forty seconds. If you have 50,000 cars coming down
Whether you live, work, or shop down Highway 280 we all face the same problem. Traffic! Now, local and state governments are driving home a solution ... Hoover and Birmingham mayors listened intently to a possible elevated highway and toll road project. But, it isn't cheap ... There saying its 800 million dollars it's more than everyone in all of Jefferson County can afford, this has to be a state project ... That's why the cities of Birmingham, Hoover, Vestavia Hills and Homewood must all agree
A project to to ease congestion on Highway 280 will soon move full speed ahead or screech to a halt. Thursday night ... the state presented its toll road plan to leaders from Birmingham and Hoover. And the state made it clear that it was their way or no way ...