Mobile and Baldwin County News
Coverage of Mobile River Bridge from South Alabama News, the local news source for Mobile, Baldwin and the surrounding counties of the Alabama Gulf Coast.
As Mobile continues to grow, so does the conversation about whether the city’s aging infrastructure can keep up, and one perennial topic has resurfaced: traffic trouble in the George Wallace…
State and federal highway officials told supporters of a Cochrane-Africatown bridge route that it likely could not meet the purpose of relieving Interstate 10 congestion at the Wallace Tunnel.
With 11 of 14 proposed routes eliminated and transportation officials nearing a decision, Mobile's maritime community convened a public session downtown that organizers called critical to the port's future.
A 77-year-old retired federal contracting officer who once taught Jimmy Buffett to sail proposed a straight east-west I-10 crossing over Pinto Island, 360 feet above the river, that he said…