By Associated Press
Mobile, AL – Mobile's mayor has announced the city's favored route for a high-rise Interstate 10 bridge over Mobile Bay, urging state and federal officials to build it soon to relieve traffic congestion in the I-10 tunnels.
Mayor Sam Jones made the announcement Wednesday at a news conference joined by key port and business leaders. The proposal is for a route that would pass near Bender Shipbuilding and Austal's giant shipyard and connect to the existing I-10 bayway bridge.
Transportation officials have considered 14 alternate routes in response to many public comments about a bridge that's expected to be comparable to the Golden Gate Bridge in San Francisco. Opponents have raised the prospect of living beneath the bridge's shadows.