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Wednesday, September 28, 2011

Northern Beltline/ I422 and Growth for the North Jefferson Area

The Alabama Department of Transportation (ALDOT) has scheduled two public hearings to allow the public to be heard on the issue of the Northern Beltline.
This important public meeting is for just that, The Public. This is your time to speak publically on your opinions and to become fully informed on the information to date surrounding this important regional project. In advance of the meeting please seek out information by visiting the dedicated website of www.finish422.org for more insight.

As we have discussed here before, the idea of a beltline dates back to the 1960s. Through the unified voice of ALDOT and the Coalition for Regional Transportation progress on the Northern Beltline project is being made.

Paul Vercher is the Chairman of the Board for the Directors of the Coalition for Regional Transportation. Board members include Applied Research Center of Alabama, Birmingham Business Alliance, Brasfield & Gorrie,

Drummond Company, Energen/Alagasco, Greater Birmingham Association of Home Builders, Saiia Construction, Thompson Tractor, US Steel, and Vulcan Materials. Vercher works for US Steel and joined the company to fill the newly created role of manager-state governmental affairs and will manage the company's governmental affairs activities at the state and local levels in Alabama, Arkansas, Oklahoma and Texas.

There are dozens of official resolutions of support from our area to include Gardendale, Fultondale, Graysville, Adamsville, Brookside, Kimberly, Warrior, Tarrant, Morris and more. “These tangible signs of support are evidence of the broad and diverse coalition the Northern Beltline has garnered throughout our region,” said Vercher.

Like the economic and jobs growth spurred by I-459 in the southern and eastern parts of the Birmingham metropolitan area, I-422 (Northern Beltline) will do the same for the western and northern areas of Birmingham and Jefferson County according to their website.

And don’t forget I22, which we can all clearly see coming right along. This multi-level stack interchange is planned for the location between the current U.S. 31 Fultondale trumpet interchange at Exit 266 and 41st Street interchange at Exit 264. Upon completion of I22, Fultondale will be the only city other than Birmingham, Montgomery and Mobile to be served by more than one two-digit interstate highway (I-65 and I-22).

 Ask your questions. Get your facts. Understand what this means not just to our area, but to you.

1 comment:

  1. What this means is a taxpaying citizens across the country are paying for a pet political project so a few wealthy corporations can get richer. The legitimate cost per FHWA is $4.7 BILLION or $90 MILLION per mile. Get real. The US is in a 14 trillion deficit. Jefferson County is near bankruptcy and cannot pay for the secondary infrastructure. Many taxpayers do not buy the myths and propaganda the BBA, BARD and CRT are feeding the public. This is a boondoggle and money should be spent instead to fix what is in existence.

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