Parts of I-59 To Reopen

HUNTSVILLE — The Alabama Department of Transportation advises motorists that more than five miles of reconstructed northbound roadway of Interstate 59 between Reece City and Collinsville are being reopened this afternoon.

The northbound roadway from near milepost 194, south of Stephens Gap Road in northern Etowah County, to about a mile north of the DeKalb County line has been closed for replacement, with all traffic shifted to the southbound roadway, since last summer.

The southbound roadway will remain reduced to one lane while barriers are removed and relocated for the next phase of the project.

Motorists are advised to expect a lane closure beginning at milepost 198 for work to construct a crossover for a future traffic shift to the southbound roadway to allow reconstruction of the next five milesegment of the northbound roadway, from milepost 199.5 to south of Exit 205 (Alabama 68) in DeKalb County.

Once all 11 miles of roadway have been reconstructed, contractor Wiregrass Construction will pave the final layer of the entire project. The $44 million project is anticipated to be completed in late spring or early summer of 2024. This project, a recently-completed $25.2 million project that replaced about eight miles of the northbound roadway through Fort Payne, and a recentlybegun $40.8 million project to reconstruct the northbound roadway from Fort Payne to Hammondville, represent a combined total of about $110 million invested by the state so far in reconstructing I-59 through northeast Alabama.