Two tropical storms may be going ‘round about Mobile, but they’ve delayed the start of work on a new roundabout planned for the edge of downtown.
Mobile’s Traffic Engineering Department had announced plans to start work Monday at the intersection of Broad and Canal streets. The city has now announced that the start of work had been pushed back a week to Monday, Aug. 31 due to the rainy forecast generated by tropical storms Marco and Laura.
The three-way intersection is the southwest corner of the Hank Aaron Loop around downtown; from it, Broad Street runs southward to I-10 and the Mobile Aeroplex at Brookley. While the roundabout is being built, through traffic on South Broad Street will be routed along Washington Avenue via Canal Street and Texas Street.
The city expects the project to be completed by February 2021.
According to information released by the city, the roundabout will “provide safety improvements, reduce speed and allow better access for pedestrians and bicyclists.”
The work is part of an extensive redesign and redevelopment of Broad Street funded in large part by a federal TIGER grant. Extensive work on Broad and Beauregard streets north of Spring Hill Avenue has been under way for months. Full information on the project can be found at https://www.cityofmobile.org/reconnectingmobile/tiger-grant/.
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