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A poll conducted by the State Highway Department showed a slight preference among drivers for improved access east of [[20th Street South|20th Street]]. Representatives of the [[Birmingham Police Department]] wrote in favor of the 18th Street option. | A poll conducted by the State Highway Department showed a slight preference among drivers for improved access east of [[20th Street South|20th Street]]. Representatives of the [[Birmingham Police Department]] wrote in favor of the 18th Street option. | ||
Efforts to expand traffic capacity over Red Mountain eventually resulted in the [[Red Mountain Expressway]] and the landmark [[Red Mountain cut]], which was begun in [[1962]] and completed in [[1969]]. | |||
==References== | ==References== | ||
Revision as of 23:12, 28 August 2007
The Red Mountain Tunnel was a proposed project to dig a tunnel through Red Mountain to carry highway traffic. In 1947 a Red Mountain Tunnel Advisory Board considered conflicting proposals from the Birmingham Department of Planning & Engineering and from the Alabama Highway Department. The city's engineer J. D. Webb, favored a route extending from 18th Street South while the state, which consulted with New York tunnel expert Ole Slugstad, recommended using 22nd Street South.
A poll conducted by the State Highway Department showed a slight preference among drivers for improved access east of 20th Street. Representatives of the Birmingham Police Department wrote in favor of the 18th Street option.
Efforts to expand traffic capacity over Red Mountain eventually resulted in the Red Mountain Expressway and the landmark Red Mountain cut, which was begun in 1962 and completed in 1969.
References
- "Tunnel Board Pondering Two Routes Under Red Mountain" (February 1947) Birmingham News.
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