Red Mountain Tunnel

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.

References

• "Tunnel Board Pondering Two Routes Under Red Mountain" (February 1947) Birmingham News.