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This article discusses ALDOT’s recent application for the federal Interstate System Reconstruction and Rehabilitation Pilot Program, a rarely used federal program that allows a state to “to collect tolls on a facility on the Interstate System in order to reconstruct or rehabilitate an Interstate highway corridor that could not otherwise be adequately maintained or functionally improved without the collection of tolls” and gives us an idea of where we are with the funding for the project. It’s encouraging to see significant push at the federal level to get the project going. We’ve been waiting long enough.

It’s mentioned in this article that Mobile added 7,500 jobs since 2020. It’s worthwhile to point out that over half of those jobs were added just last year.