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is the I-22 interchange on I-65 finished yet?

Nope.

The subject line is wrong.

(10-27-2015 10:11 AM)UABslant Wrote:  The subject line is wrong.

Good for you .... but that's what is called a teaser

(10-27-2015 10:00 AM)tigerjeb Wrote:  is the I-22 interchange on I-65 finished yet?

Latest estimates have it slated to be completed about the time the sun burns down to a lump of cosmic flotsam.

Better bring a sweater. Could get nippy.

Just a little reminder, ALDOT. You still suck. Don't let anyone tell you different.

(10-27-2015 10:00 AM)tigerjeb Wrote:  is the I-22 interchange on I-65 finished yet?

I though it was supposed to be completed by now?

(10-27-2015 10:51 AM)GreenHornet33 Wrote:  

(10-27-2015 10:00 AM)tigerjeb Wrote:  is the I-22 interchange on I-65 finished yet?

I though it was supposed to be completed by now?

Sucker.

Don't worry. I'm sure the $2000 a day penalty for being late on the project will get them moving on finishing it.

(10-27-2015 10:51 AM)GreenHornet33 Wrote:  

(10-27-2015 10:00 AM)tigerjeb Wrote:  is the I-22 interchange on I-65 finished yet?

I though it was supposed to be completed by now?

Annnnddddddd that's what you get for thinking.

Seriously though, my deceased grandfather told me that their were rumors of a four lane highway between Memphis and Birmingham back when he was a kid. He also told me that he would not live long enough to see it completed. Guess who was right?

(10-27-2015 11:35 AM)BandGrad Wrote:  

(10-27-2015 10:51 AM)GreenHornet33 Wrote:  

(10-27-2015 10:00 AM)tigerjeb Wrote:  is the I-22 interchange on I-65 finished yet?

I though it was supposed to be completed by now?

Annnnddddddd that's what you get for thinking.

Seriously though, my deceased grandfather told me that their were rumors of a four lane highway between Memphis and Birmingham back when he was a kid. He also told me that he would not live long enough to see it completed. Guess who was right?

When the interstate system was first designed, Alabama and other states requested an additional road from Kansas City, through Memphis and B'ham to Brunswick, GA. When it was turned down, Corridor X was a "fall back" design finally funded as part of a supplementary addition to the interstate system, hence the "future I-22" designation. The primary interstate system was funded 90% federal and 10% state but Corridor X had to get separate funding on a money available basis so it has taken longer to build (and the part in Jeffco even longer).

Since the ratio of 90-10 for interstates is the same as the expansion of Medicaid after the first three years, is it likely that had we had the same state leadership in the 1950s, we might not have any interstates either?

How long did the Red Mountain Expressway end in midair at 1st ave N.?

Or how long did we have to cut off of I-65 North in Fultondale?

(10-27-2015 02:00 PM)UAB Band Dad Wrote:  How long did the Red Mountain Expressway end in midair at 1st ave N.?

Part of that was the law suit filed on behalf of Metropolitan Garden residents who would be displaced when the Expressway took their units. That negotiated compromise is why the road jogs to the right on its way to I-59-20. You can see the remnants of the old straight section on the west side where it meets the new sections.
Ironically, those same units were later demolished as part of the HOPE 6 program.

(10-27-2015 02:15 PM)the_blazerman Wrote:  Or how long did we have to cut off of I-65 North in Fultondale?

For many years, ALL interstates in B'ham were isolated from the rest of the state. I-65N ended for years at Fultondale, I-65S ended at US 31 in Hoover, I-20E ended at US 78 at Eastwood, I-59N ended at Center Point Parkway, I-59/20W ended in Fairfield and I-459 existed only from US 31 to US 280.

Part of UAB's problems with the BOT stems from their continuing the state's century old vendetta against all things in and around B'ham., including their own sister school. I still believe the FB program was meant to be only its opening shot at renewed subjugation of the whole.

It would be nice if they spent $20 million to do major renovations to Legion Field.

I hate ALDOT!

(10-27-2015 07:58 PM)GreenHornet33 Wrote:  It would be nice if they spent $20 million to do major renovations to Legion Field.

Don't worry, by 2021 you'll have your wish.

(10-27-2015 09:07 PM)Matrix Wrote:  I hate ALDOT!

I-20 construction out towards Oxford and Pell City seemed like it took forever and a day.

(10-27-2015 05:40 PM)BAMANBLAZERFAN Wrote:  I still believe the FB program was meant to be only its opening shot at renewed subjugation of the whole.

They've only been delayed, not stopped. But otherwise agree: the target's the entire city, not just UAB or just UAB athletics. Hopefully football fundraising will start a pattern of keeping Birmingham's money in Birmingham.