Barring an emergency, all major interstate roadwork projects in Alabama will pause between noon Friday, June 30, and midnight Tuesday, July 4, according to Tony Harris, chief of media and community relations for the Alabama Department of Transportation.
- Fourth of July weekend. But one thing you probably won’t have to worry about is road construction.
Barring an emergency, all major interstate roadwork projects in Alabama will pause between noon on Friday, June 30, and midnight on Tuesday, July 4. That’s according to Tony Harris, chief of media and community relations for the“We will be announcing a shutdown of construction activity during the busiest part of the holiday weekend,” Harris said. “For anything but an emergency lane closure, we’ll have everything opened back up.
An emergency, he said, would be something like a weather event that damaged a road, a major pothole developing on a busy part of the highway, or other similar events. Barring such an emergency, there won’t be lane closures due to construction on any interstates in Alabama over the long weekend, and many smaller roads will be following the same practices, at region engineer discretion, Harris said.
These kind of roadwork pauses are standard practice during high-traffic holidays, Harris said. They are meant to prevent slowdowns on major roadways, as such slowdowns often lead to accidents.Roadwork projects to keep an eye out for Once the holiday weekend is over, road work will resume. And there are already several construction projects already on the books. According to ALDOT, drivers can expect to see active construction on these projects:Bridge replacement on I-65 over the Sepulga River in GeorgianaOutside of those large projects, ALDOT currently lists 132 active projects on its
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