Mobile and Baldwin County News
Coverage of transportation planning from South Alabama News, the local news source for Mobile, Baldwin and the surrounding counties of the Alabama Gulf Coast.
Baldwin County has released its Draft Master Plan 2026 and is asking residents to review it ahead of Planning and Zoning and County Commission votes in August and September.
Baldwin County officials are considering folding the Eastern Shore's transportation planning organization into a Mobile-based regional commission.
A new Baldwin County planning group is studying how to synchronize traffic lights along the Eastern Shore's busiest roads to ease stop-and-go congestion.
Spanish Fort's 5 Rivers Delta Resource Center hosted the final public hearing on the proposed $850 million I-10 Mobile River Bridge project this week.
Baldwin County officials explored a toll-road option in 2009 for a proposed $300 million connector between Interstate 65 and Interstate 10.
The assistant executive director of the South Alabama Regional Planning Commission — and a former Bay Minette city administrator — headlined the Rotary Club of Mobile-Sunrise as the club opened…
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.