Mobile and Baldwin County News
Coverage of John Cooper from South Alabama News, the local news source for Mobile, Baldwin and the surrounding counties of the Alabama Gulf Coast.
The Alabama Toll Road, Bridge and Tunnel Authority approved bond financing and a $3 toll for the $3.2 billion Mobile River Bridge and Bayway Project, with construction set to begin…
Lt. Gov. Will Ainsworth told a Mobile County Republican Party gathering that Alabama has enough money in its Education Trust Fund and General Fund to build the Mobile River Bridge…
ALDOT told Mobile and Eastern Shore planning leaders it will study a single-phase alternative to its phased Mobile River Bridge and Bayway plan, after MPO chairmen Sandy Stimpson and Jack…
The Mobile Airport Authority has struck a deal with the state to manage St. Elmo Airport as a first step toward full ownership, while Frontier Airlines resumed commercial flights to…
Facing overwhelming public opposition to tolls, the Eastern Shore Metropolitan Planning Organization voted to drop the Mobile River Bridge project from its transportation plan, prompting Gov. Kay Ivey to declare…
Those hoping to avoid tolls on a proposed new I-10 bridge and Bayway project are unlikely to find relief when the Alabama Toll Road, Bridge, and Tunnel Authority meets in…
ALDOT Director John Cooper is defending a proposed tolling plan for the Mobile River Bridge and Bayway, including a $6 one-way charge and discounted commuter passes, as the agency also…
Three groups of companies are preparing proposals to build the Mobile River Bridge and Bayway Project, the Alabama Department of Transportation confirmed. The teams — known as concessionaires — are…
MOBILE, Ala. — Resistance to the toll plan behind the Mobile River Bridge and Bayway project keeps broadening, with Mobile’s legislative delegation sending Gov. Kay Ivey a letter this week…
ALDOT officials are eyeing tolls to help fund a new Mobile River bridge project, with cost estimates ranging from $800 million to $1.8 billion.