Photograph courtesy of ALDOT
Crews repairing the roadway on SR-41 after the landslide.
The Alabama Division of Transportation (ALDOT) is ready to start a restore undertaking on state Freeway 41 within the southwestern a part of the state following an important landslide in 2023.
Preliminary paintings on the web page were given underneath method in June, consistent with the company, with the majority of the street rehabilitation set to start out Sept. 9 alongside Ala. 41 at milepost 65.4, between the communities of Hybart and Franklin in Monroe County, northeast of Cell.
The landslide, which came about remaining fall after a length of heavy rainfall, critically impacted the roadway, necessitating rapid visitors restrictions. Since then, the affected phase of Ala. 41 has been decreased to a unmarried lane, inflicting substantial inconvenience for other people dwelling and dealing within the space and elevating protection issues for commuters and citizens alike.
To facilitate the following section of upkeep, visitors is to be detoured to the east of the restore web page by means of within sight Ala. 21/47 and Ala. 265 when the brand new section of upkeep starts. The detour is anticipated to stay in position till Nov. 11.
Crews will probably be running to stabilize the landslide-affected space and repair the roadway to complete operational capability as temporarily as conceivable, ALDOT stated.
Interstate 59 Northbound Being Upgraded Close to Georgia Line
Within the a ways northeastern a part of Alabama, Wiregrass Building, based totally in Dothan, closed a portion of Interstate 59 northbound on Sept. 3 in DeKalb County close to the Georgia state line for a $41 million reconstruction undertaking.
The highway paintings is designed to improve the I-59 street floor, together with pavement removing, grading, drainage and pavement and visitors striping, from north of Ala. 40/117 in Hammondville to the Georgia border.
ALDOT famous that northbound visitors will transition to 1 lane of the southbound roadway by means of a crossover about 5 mi. north of Hammondville. Concrete boundaries will separate unmarried lanes of northbound and southbound visitors for 4.5 mi. whilst building is underneath method. Site visitors will go back to the northbound roadway on the state line.
Wiregrass is reconstructing a couple of miles of roadway south of the present paintings space in a later portion of the undertaking. In all, the two-phase effort will demolish and exchange 8 mi. of I-59 northbound.
In preparation for the paintings, the contractor made upkeep and enhancements to the southbound portion of the interstate and got rid of probably the most deteriorated concrete slabs from that facet of the roadway prematurely of the closure of northbound I-59. As well as, Wiregrass crews rehabilitated lots of the underlying concrete slabs for long run use.
The undertaking is scheduled for finishing touch in overdue 2026, consistent with ALDOT.
A few of the closures throughout the paintings zone are the northbound on- and off-ramps at I-59’s Go out 239/Dekalb County Highway 140 at Sulphur Springs.
In overdue 2020, ALDOT started reconstructing portions of the highway in DeKalb County and northerly Etowah County because of its age and the deterioration of the unique concrete roadway.
The present undertaking is the fourth one began at the interstate on this space in 4 years. In overall, the state transportation company famous the price of the I-59 rehabilitation has been roughly $150 million.
Interstate 59 northbound drivers would possibly come across every other visitors shift between Fortress Payne and Hammondville, consistent with ALDOT.
A.G. Peltz Crew, a paving contractor from Ironton, Ala., opened the northern a part of its $40.8 million, 8-mi. undertaking to visitors in July, sooner than starting paintings on changing the southern phase of I-59 in August.
