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Alabama Cuts 2.5 Billion Dollars In Highway Projects
Posted on December 12, 2012
Alabama’s highway director announced Tuesday that a number of construction projects will be removed from the state’s five-year plan, including widening U.S. 43 in Lauderdale County from Alabama 64 to the Tennessee state line.
Highway Director John Cooper told a group of 50 to 60 government officials that $4 billion in new projects in the next 10 years will be trimmed to $1.5 billion.
The projects represent construction of new roads or the addition of lanes to existing roads.
One of the biggest projects removed from the list is U.S. 43 between U.S. 72 in Killen and the Tennessee state line.
Division Engineer James Brown said the state is going forward with paving a 5-mile segment between U.S. 72 and Alabama 64, but the remaining construction segments from Alabama 64 north are off the table for the foreseeable future.
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