Мост через реку Мобил: разберемся, устранит ли он заторы или просто перенесет их

Will Mobile River bridge move the bottleneck? Examining the design MOBILE, Ala. (WALA) - The Alabama Department of Transportation plans to break ground in a couple of months on a six-lane bridge over the Mobile River. Construction hasn’t even started, and many people say they still have doubts. One of the most persistent is that it simply will move the bottleneck to another spot. That concern – which may be based on misunderstanding of the design – is that there will be five lanes merging into three lanes. That comes from the fact that state officials plan to restripe the Bayway to create three lanes in each direction. That concern is that the three-lane bridge and the two-lane Wallace Tunnel will merge with the new three-lane Bayway. But that’s not the design. The bottleneck is the tunnel, especially coming from the west, where three lanes on Interstate 10 merge to two after the Water Street exit, just before entering the tunnel. The bridge is meant to solve that by creating a bypass. The eastbound approach will begin at Virginia Street. That should take pressure off the tunnel. The bridge will cross the river and cut through the parking lot of Austal USA. By the time the bridge merges with the three-lane Bayway, it will be well past the tunnel. In other words, the two lanes at the tunnel will open to three lanes and then connect to the three-lane bridge. The other common concern is that removing the shoulders from the Bayway will make travel less safe and make it harder to respond to accidents. State officials say they have done this in other places, but it is an issue FOX10 News intends to investigate. Copyright 2026 WALA. All rights reserved.