By Guy Busby
FAIRHOPE – Baldwin and Mobile officials plan to ask Gov. Kay Ivey and the Alabama Department of Transportation to look at options to get the Interstate 10 Mobile River bridge project back on track.
Fairhope City Council President Jack Burrell told Eastern Shore Metropolitan Planning Organization members Wednesday, Jan. 27, that he had asked Mobile Mayor Sandy Stimpson to send a joint letter from the two MPOs asking state officials to resume plans for the project.
Burrell is chairman of the Eastern Shore MPO. Stimpson is chairman of the Mobile MPO. The MPOs oversee funding for regional road projects.
Plans to build the new bridge and expand the Bayway was called off in 2019 when the Eastern Shore Metropolitan Planning Organization removed the project from its Transportation Improvement Plan. The removal made the $2.1-billion project ineligible for federal funding. After the vote, Ivey said the move by the MPO killed the bridge project.