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Mobile tunnel advice

Posted on 8/28/21 at 5:52 pm
Posted by Success
Member since Sep 2015
1888 posts
Posted on 8/28/21 at 5:52 pm
Any routes I can take to avoid the tunnel? Never thought to ask but got some good advice on here so far.
This post was edited on 8/28/21 at 10:31 pm
Posted by DCtiger1
Member since Jul 2009
10244 posts
Posted on 8/28/21 at 5:53 pm to
Which way are you heading?
Posted by Success
Member since Sep 2015
1888 posts
Posted on 8/28/21 at 5:54 pm to
Sorry. East
Posted by Crimson1L
Fairhope
Member since Nov 2015
205 posts
Posted on 8/28/21 at 5:57 pm to
65N
Posted by ThePostman
Member since Sep 2009
2049 posts
Posted on 8/28/21 at 5:58 pm to
Download Waze app and check there. You could have gone Dauphin Island and then the ferry but I highly doubt thats a better choice currently. Routes skirting north are the only way. If you can exit before exit 10 and go through West Mobile to the north, that'd get you around much of it.
Posted by DCtiger1
Member since Jul 2009
10244 posts
Posted on 8/28/21 at 5:58 pm to
You can take 163 north to 90 (Government Street) through downtown and take the old Bankhead tunnel. Don’t get on I-10 until you’re in Spanish fort.
Posted by BatonRougeBuckeye
Baton Rouge, LA
Member since Aug 2013
1840 posts
Posted on 8/28/21 at 5:59 pm to
quote:

Any routes I can take to avoid the tunnel? Never thought to ask but got some good advice on here so far.



There is a second tunnel. Look up the Penn Tunnel. I use that when returning from the beach to avoid traffic. Still amazes me how few people know about it.
Posted by High C
viewing the fall....
Member since Nov 2012
57675 posts
Posted on 8/28/21 at 5:59 pm to
I’ve done it a few times, but I’ll be damned if I can remember the route.
Posted by Crimson1L
Fairhope
Member since Nov 2015
205 posts
Posted on 8/28/21 at 6:01 pm to
Judging by Waze at the moment, I’d consider I-65 North then I-165 south then take the State Docks exit and Africa Town Bridge.
Posted by beerandt
Member since Jan 2020
317 posts
Posted on 8/28/21 at 6:03 pm to
The government st tunnel runs parallel to the i10 tunnel. Sometimes it's clear when the interstate isn't.

If it weren't for the hurricane, there's the dauphin island ferry to fort Morgan.

Other than that, you have to go i65 to i think the Saraland exit to get around the bay. ~30 miles north of i10
Posted by keks tadpole
Yellow Leaf Creek
Member since Feb 2017
8190 posts
Posted on 8/28/21 at 6:04 pm to
I-65 north to I-165, exit, south to bay bridge road. Use Cochran Africa Town bridge
Bankhead is a trap
Posted by ellishughtiger
70118
Member since Jul 2004
21135 posts
Posted on 8/28/21 at 6:06 pm to
quote:

the old Bankhead tunnel


Mob town locals hate knowing coonasses know about this
Posted by Easye921
Mobile
Member since Jan 2013
2682 posts
Posted on 8/28/21 at 6:06 pm to
quote:

I-65 north to I-165, exit, south to bay bridge road. Use Cochran Africa Town bridge
Bankhead is a trap


That's the way I go across the bay as well
Posted by shutterspeed
MS Gulf Coast
Member since May 2007
68346 posts
Posted on 8/28/21 at 6:07 pm to
But you'll miss out on honking in the tunnel.
Posted by Jake88
Member since Apr 2005
75338 posts
Posted on 8/28/21 at 6:07 pm to
quote:

Any routes I can take to avoid the tunnel? Never thought to ask but got some good advice on here so far
Do you not have Google maps with the traffic turned on?
This post was edited on 8/28/21 at 6:09 pm
Posted by 0x15E
Outer Space
Member since Sep 2020
14456 posts
Posted on 8/28/21 at 6:12 pm to
quote:

Sorry. East


I’m sure the westbound lanes are empty. Jump the median and travel eastbound until you hit Spanish Fort.
Posted by LooseCannon22282
Mobile
Member since May 2008
34783 posts
Posted on 8/28/21 at 6:12 pm to
good advice on the bankhead.

but if you really want to try the bankhead, come down Dauphin street and turn right on Joachim street.

its where the Bier Garden is on the corner Joachim/Dauphin

head 2 blocks south and take a left on government in front of the courthouse. That will spit you right into the bankhead.

Avoid government street at all costs as there is one traffic light after another.

but that's just if you are hell bent coming through downtown
Posted by keks tadpole
Yellow Leaf Creek
Member since Feb 2017
8190 posts
Posted on 8/28/21 at 10:18 pm to
quote:

Other than that, you have to go i65 to i think the Saraland exit to get around the bay. ~30 miles north of i10

North I-65, past Saarland, over Dolly Parton bridge. First exit is Stockton/Spanish Fort Hwy 225. Exit and head South. Turn right at Rousse’s @ 31 then left at light. Puts you back on hwy 90 East in Spanish Fort.
Takes a little under an hour and is a last resort if the Cochran bridge is slammed, usually happens if there is a wreck that blocks both lanes East on I-10 Bayway.
Posted by Lithium
Member since Dec 2004
63664 posts
Posted on 8/28/21 at 10:21 pm to
Tunnel is ok tonight
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