Infrastructure projects in planning or construction that won’t be complete by 7/4/2076

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I went back and forth to GT on US 78 in 79-82. I don't think they completed I-22 going into Birmingham until the 20-teens.

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A portion of my drive from Birmingham to GT was on Hwy 78 as late as 1985. You are correct that Interstate 22 to Memphis was completed in the last 5 years or so.

I-49 from Lafayette to New Orleans

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I-49 from Lafayette to New Orleans

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This would somewhat serve as a partial loop around Baton Rouge if ever completed. A bypass from Grosse Tete across the Sunshine Bridge to Interstate 10 would do wonders.

Interstate 10 and US 90 between Beaumont and Orange. Maybe not even by 4076

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I’m serious, man. I made a trip some South Louisiana to Gatlinburg, Tennessee recently and the sections of interstate in Alabama were by far the worst part of the entire trip.

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There is a current project going on where they are resurfacing and adding third lanes in portions between the western state line near Meridian all the way up towards Gadsden. It is getting a lot better but for a while was very embarrassing. Interstate 65 south of Birmingham was just as awful but is great now.

Completing Interstate 85 from Montgomery to Meridian would be another project that would be nice to progress.

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I once, no bullshite, almost got in a wreck on 59 south of Gadsden because a pack of feral dogs

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I use to do a lot of traveling at night going back and forth between job sites. After a while, noting the number of feral hogs and deer in the rural areas, I tried to keep my traveling to day light hours. Interstate 49 through Louisiana always worried me the most about feral hogs. I would sometimes see a mass group of black animals along the side of the interstate at night. I assume they were hogs.

Yeah I drove between BR and Nashville several times in the last few years and 20/59 southeast of Birmingham is straight arse. 65 North was pretty good though