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To rehabilitate the Tennessee River Bridges, the contractor, Cekra, first rigged scaffolding to access work areas.

Motorists should expect single-lane closures for rehabilitation work on the northbound I-65 Tennessee River Bridge each weekend in October, beginning this Friday.

The contractor will close the outside lane about 6 p.m. on Fridays and reopen it about 5 a.m. on Mondays.

Please expect delays on the northbound roadway during the weekends. Plan additional…

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During lane closures, northbound US-11/Gault Avenue through traffic will be detoured to First Street to Godfrey Avenue then to Fifth Street NE in Fort Payne.

A sidewalk improvement project on US-11/Gault Avenue in Fort Payne will start Monday, weather permitting.  

The Transportation Alternatives Program (TAP) project will install Americans with Disabilities Act-compliant sidewalks and curb ramps from First Street to Third Street North. The project also includes drainage work and curb and gutter replacement.

Through the end of the…

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ALDOT will repair the SR-91 bridge over Dorsey Creek starting Friday, Oct. 4.

The Alabama Department of Transportation plans to close SR-91 just south of Arkadelphia in Cullman County for 10 days for a bridge repair.

SR-91 in the immediate area of the bridge at Dorsey Creek will be completely closed to traffic beginning about 4 p.m. Friday, Oct. 4, and will remain closed for the duration of…

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Contractors will resurface SR-251 between US-31 in Athens and SR-53 in Ardmore starting Monday.

Resurfacing work on SR-251 between Athens and Ardmore in Limestone County will start Monday, weather permitting.

The contractor, Asphalt Paving Systems, will resurface the entire highway — more than 16 miles — in two projects. The first project runs from US-31 in Athens to East Limestone Road, and the second will proceed from East Limestone…

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Signs for the project are in place, including this work zone sign near Exit 7 (County Line Road), at the west end of the project on the eastbound roadway.

The contractor on the I-565 widening project anticipates starting work next week to expand the interstate spur to six lanes through Madison.

The $29 million project stretches from west of County Line Road to east of Wall Triana Highway. It includes adding a third lane on each roadway and widening two sets of bridges —…

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At the western project limit on SR-20 in Decatur, the pavement to be replaced by the project, right, contrasts with pavement placed in a previous project in 2019, left.

A project to resurface part of SR-20 in Decatur will start Sunday evening, if weather permits.

Grayson Carter & Son Contracting will mill, patch, and repave more than a mile of the highway from west of 12th Avenue Northwest to the bridge over the CSX railroad.

The contractor will work between 6 p.m. and 6…

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Westbound traffic will be transitioned to the eastbound inside lane while Norfolk Southern repairs this rail crossing on SR-20 just west of SR-67 in Decatur.

A short section of the westbound lanes of SR-20 in Decatur will close Tuesday for railroad crossing repairs.

Weather permitting, Norfolk Southern plans to repair the crossing just west of SR-67/Beltline Road beginning at 8 a.m.

Westbound traffic will be temporarily shifted to the inside eastbound lane. Motorists are advised to expect delays due to…

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The I-59 on- and off-ramps at Exit 239 (CR-140) at Sulphur Springs will be closed to traffic.

A contractor will close part of I-59 northbound in DeKalb County near the Georgia state line this afternoon for a $41 million roadway reconstruction project.

Northbound traffic will transition to one lane of the southbound roadway via a crossover about five miles north of Hammondville. For 4.5 miles, concrete barriers will separate single lanes of…

Read More “I-59N closing, traffic shifting near Georgia line”

Signal Technician updates traffic signal timing

Signal engineers in the Alabama Department of Transportation’s (ALDOT) Southwest Region have made significant progress in the first phase of the Regional Traffic Operations Program (RTOP) expansion in Mobile, Alabama. The retiming of 66 traffic signals has been completed ahead of schedule, allowing ALDOT to advance the next phase earlier than planned.

What’s Next?

Starting…

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