April 20, 2007
"Progress 280 Gives Thumbs Up to Elevated Lanes
on Eastern Part of U.S. 280"
By Kelli Hewett Taylor, Birmingham News staff writer
The Progress 280 Task Force on Thursday voted unanimously to recommend the state continue research on building elevated lanes on U.S. 280 from Interstate 459 to Double Oak Mountain but delay further action on elevated lanes on the west side of I-459....
http://blog.al.com/hoover/2007/04/progress_280_gives_thumbs_up_t.html
April 19, 2007
"280 Road Trip"
By Phillip Jordan and Kyle Whitmire, Birmingham Weekly
If you've got time (and can beat the traffic), be at the Vestavia Hills Civic Center at 2 p.m. The Progress 280 Task Force is expected to offer its long-awaited recommendation after hearing a final report on community support for elevated lanes above Highway 280. The word is that the very vocal opposition along the Jefferson County stretch of 280 has spared those communities from Alabama's omnipresent answer to sprawl – more roads! However, the task force's consultant, Florida-based Linda Figg, says enough Shelby County residents want the double-decker along their five miles to go ahead and fire up those ALDOT engines. Admiral David Farragut may have been a Yankee (from Tennessee, no less – how did that happen?), but we bet he'd enjoy making this call: "Damn mass transit! Road contractors, full speed ahead!) Anyways, if you've got a dog in the race, be sure to show up and see if the task force indeed decides to do this thing halfway....
http://www.bhamweekly.com/2007/04/19/news-280-road-trip/
