Mobile County Considered Transit Options for Highway 43 Construction Traffic
Archived WKRG coverage reported discussion of a possible transit system as ThyssenKrupp construction increased Highway 43 traffic in North Mobile County.
MOBILE COUNTY, Ala. — In July 2008, a Mobile County commissioner said a mass-transit system might help ease the growing traffic congestion along U.S. Highway 43 in the northern part of the county, according to an archived local news report.
Commissioner Merceria Ludgood cited the traffic increases linked to the ThyssenKrupp construction project at Calvert. At the time, ThyssenKrupp had about 700 construction workers on site, and the company said construction could eventually involve as many as 7,000 workers a day.
One suggestion discussed at the time included a pickup location near Hank Aaron Stadium in Mobile. Workers and nearby residents interviewed about the idea expressed mixed support.
This article is a historical report on a proposal and conditions at that time, not a current traffic or transit notice.
Who handles the road and the buses
U.S. 43 is part of the state highway system, so improvements to it are the responsibility of the Alabama Department of Transportation; the three-member Mobile County Commission oversees county roads and can press the state for changes. Public transit in the area is run by the City of Mobile’s Wave Transit System.
Hank Aaron Stadium, the proposed pickup point, was then the home of the Mobile BayBears, the city’s Double-A minor league baseball team.
