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#REDIRECT [[Council President Maxine Herring Parker Bridge]]
 
The '''Finley Avenue flyover''' or '''Finely bypass''' is a proposal to extend [[Finley Avenue]] eastward, helping connect the neighborhood of [[Collegeville]] to traffic throroughfares. Currently Collegeville is entirely cut off from the rest of the city by railroad grade crossings. The issue came to a head in [[2000]] when an elderly couple died in a house fire while a [[Birmingham Fire & Rescue Service|fire truck]] waited for a train to pass.
 
Currently Finley dead ends just past [[U. S. Highway 31]] at [[27th Street North]]. Between it and the beginning of [[F. L. Shuttlesworth Drive]] in Collegeville lie two sets of [[Southern Railway]] trackage. The proposal has been discussed since the 1960s without progress.
 
[[Birmingham City Council]] member [[Maxine Parker]], prompted by the availability of federal stimulus funds for road and bridge projects, helped to bring the proposal forward in [[2009]]. She pushed the Council to pass a resolution in support of the project and got city engineers to begin work. In April 2009 she met with Congressman [[Artur Davis]] and secured a $10 million commitment.
 
The current proposal from the [[Alabama Department of Transportation]] is to extend Finley Boulevard for four miles along the southern edge of Collegeville to connect to [[Alabama Highway 79]] near [[East Lake Boulevard]]. Funding for the project is believed to be secure. The first phase, estimated at $32 million, would connect the Boulevard to Fred L. Shuttlesworth Drive. Construction of that segment could start as early as [[2011]].  Phases 2 and 3 would make the connection to Highway 79. No time frame has been set for that work.
 
==References==
* MacDonald, Ginny (July 6, 2009) "Alabama Department of Transportation sets first public meeting on three plans for proposed Finley bypass." ''Birmingham News''
* "Birmingham City Councilwoman Maxine Parker's legacy may be Finley Boulevard flyover to rescue Collegeville neighborhood." editorial (July 18, 2009) ''Birmingham News''
 
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[[Category:Finley Boulevard]]
[[Category:F. L. Shuttlesworth Drive]]
[[Category:Alabama State Highway 79]]
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