I-59/20 through downtown Birmingham completely replaced

Birmingham pwns

The contractor, Johnson Brothers Corp., gets a nice $15 million dollar bonus for finishing it before the end of January.

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How did they do this? Did they put both direction on one side while redoing the other?

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Nope, they completely shut down 59/20 through downtown Birmingham. Detours were the only way through. If you were just passing through Birmingham, you could bypass it by taking Interstate 459, which goes around south of Birmingham and rejoins interstates 59 and 20 beyond the construction zone.

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If you were just passing through Birmingham, you could bypass it by taking Interstate 459, which goes around south of Birmingham and rejoins interstates 59 and 20 beyond the construction zone.

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Subtle "my city has a loop" brag

On the way back from the Peach Bowl we missed the bypass and went through Birmingham on I20. Big mistake. With all the detours my phone map was almost useless. It was a nightmare getting through there at midnight. We should have just turned around and went back to the loop.

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Simply amazing how they can replace and expand miles of elevated roadway through an urban setting in a year - ahead of schedule.

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Try that shite in Louisiana

Louisiana sucks.

Hell a segment of the interstate fell down after that fire in Georgia and they had that shite back up in a week.

This would be more like shutting down I10 in New Orleans and detouring everyone to I610.

I think Baton Rouge is planning a bridge or a loop or something.

People seem to think it won’t be on schedule.

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I think Baton Rouge is planning a bridge or a loop or something.

People seem to think it won’t be on schedule.

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Studyin'!