More than two years after debates on toll pricing and other issues stalled out ambitious plans for a new bridge and updated causeway, the $2.7-billion Mobile Bridge and Bayway project is back on the to-do list for the Alabama Dept. of Transportation (ALDOT).

7月，移动和东岸的大都市规划组织（MPO）一致投票通过重新加工其收费结构后，将项目添加到该州的运输改进计划中。

移动桥和湾区项目包括在移动河道上建造一座新的六车道桥梁，在移动湾上替换了两个两车道的桥梁，以及两个三车道桥梁以及重新配置七个互换。

The six-lane, cable-stayed bridge will have 215 ft of clearance over the Mobile River navigation channel, according to project information from ALDOT.

A9月2日发布的提案请求对于这两个项目，三车道的新利18备用网址桥梁莫比尔湾Causeway将建造高于100年风暴事件的最大波高度。

Aldot发言人James Gordon says work should start in 2024 and complete in 2028, and that industry firms have already begun putting together project teams.

Reworked Plan Restarts Effort

The two local MPOs on either side of Mobile Bay, Mobile MPO and Eastern Shore MPO, couldn’t agree on how the plan was laid out several years ago, Gordon says. The governor recommended tabling it, and in the meantime, the two MPOs reworked the plan, presenting it to ALDOT in March and April.

戈登说：“一切都又开始了。”

Aldotmet with industry firms Aug. 16 to provide an overview of the timeline,项目details and to go over its progressive design-build delivery approach. The project will be split into two progressive design-build contracts, according to a project overview presented at the forum.

这两个项目部分沿10个州际公路延伸约10英里，ALDOT的目标是到2023年12月到2024年4月到2024年4月，获得“项目1”的最高价格。

五个新的交换和移动河上的新桥是项目1的一部分，从I-10和Mobile的Broad Street开始，到鲍德温县线I-10。

戈登说,计划包括diverging-diamond interchanges, but project teams will be left to redesign some of the on and off ramps to improve them for drivers taking the toll-free route.

根据该计划，Aldot的目标是提高10号州际公路的能力满足现有和未来的交通量，同时最大程度地减少对移动设备24亿美元的海上行业和provide a more direct route for vehicles transporting hazardous materials across the Mobile River. Currently, these vehicles have to detour off I-10 through the Mobile Central Business District.

Aldotsays the Mobile River bridge, expected to cost $1.6 billion per the RFP, should be completed within five years, will “alleviate traffic congestion and facilitate economic growth by constructing an aesthetically pleasing cable-stay bridge with a minimum 100-year service life and minimum 215-ft vertical clearance over the 600-ft-wide Mobile River ship channel.”

The state intends to seekfunding from联邦和其他来源来补充收入收入。该项目将由重建美国重建基础设施（INFRA）拨款1.25亿美元，该州已获得授予的1.25亿美元，2.5亿美元的州资金和5亿美元的申请联邦大型赠款。

According to a presentation to the MPOs, ALDOT also plans to use $1.1 billion from a Federal Transportation Infrastructure Finance and Innovation Act (TIFIA) loan and $1.2 billion in senior financing, which will be repaid via tolling revenue.

Proposals are due Dec. 1 for Project 1, according to ALDOT, with the planned notice to proceed with construction set for February 2024. Proposals for Project 2 are due in March 2023, with notice to proceed planned for June 2024.

2021年12月的当地MPO致Aldot的一封信，要求新计划不是分阶段或零碎的根据2022年6月向移动MPO的演讲，以及通过华莱士隧道，Bankhead Tunnel，Africatown Bridge和Causeway包括免费选项。

戈登说，免电话选项包含在原始计划中，现在乘用车的正常费用将不超过2.50美元。

The new route will collect tolls, but those existing tunnels and the U.S. 90/98 causeway will remain toll-free, as will the Cochrane-Africatown Bridge that currently spans the river to the north of the planned bridge site.

移动桥和贝威将使用全电动电话，因此不必停止车辆，而电子收费码横跨道路，并通过应答器或车牌图像进行收集。

For drivers with an ALGO Pass, ALDOT is proposing a toll of $2.50 per short, two-axle vehicles, or drivers can purchase a $40 per month unlimited pass. For vehicles taller than 7.5 feet, tolls will be $9 for two-axle vehicles and $3 for each additional axle, with an $18 rate for tractor trailers.

For those without the pass, short vehicles will be charged an additional $1.50 per axle, and tall vehicles an additional $2.75 per axle.