Please join ReThink280 in welcoming John Norquist, President and CEO of the Congress for New Urbanism (CNU), at a reception Wednesday, April...

Hooray and thank you's all around! The Mountain Brook and Vestavia Hills City Councils have both voted to contribute $10,000 each to fun...

A new year, a new governor, and a new state transportation director have brought with them a fresh look by ALDOT at ReThink280's alterna...

Please plan to attend the meeting of the Shelby County Commission on Monday, June 28, 2010, at 5:00pm. ALDOT will present its Highway 280 el...

Hasn't our region grown too big to build large road projects with no community planning? We think so, and so do Birmingham's Metropo...

Shelby Considers 280 Plan by Malcomb Daniels -- The Birmingham News Wednesday, June 9, 2010 The Shelby County Commission on Monday may becom...

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The proposed $1B transportation amendment passed last month by the State legislature includes dedicated funding for Jefferson County transit...

It's simple: Added lanes means added traffic. And that means more particle and ozone pollution in a city already struggling with poor a...

The Birmingham City Council this afternoon officially expressed its desire to find a better solution than ALDOT's to the problem of U.S....

The Vestavia Hills City Council has voted unanimously in favor of seeking alternative ways to address congestion on U.S. 280, recommending a...

Meadow Brook, a community of nearly 900 homes in unincorporated Shelby County, held its Spring General Membership Homeowners Association mee...

WE URGE ALL BIRMINGHAM RESIDENTS AND BUSINESS OWNERS to contact their elected officials and ask them to oppose ALDOT's plans for a toll...

Please contact your elected representatives and urge them to oppose the state's overkill proposal for an $800 million toll road and elev...

THANKS to all who turned out to listen and ask questions at our presentations in Vestavia Hills, Mountain Brook, and Hoover. We really appre...

ALDOT may have put the brakes on its fast-tracked plan for a U.S. 280 toll road, but we all recognize that a solution must be found to alle...

Click here to view the ReThink280 presentation made to the Birmingham City Council on March 9th.

"Redoubling efforts to come up with a better plan that can win broader support must be the new route." -- Birmingham News Editori...

State transportation officials say they have halted work indefinitely on express lanes for U.S. 280 and won’t go forward unless local govern...

ALDOT claims a tolled U.S. 280 "will pay for itself" -- not only for the construction, but for continued operation, maintenance, l...

"We need to fully analyze and understand our return on investment from spending $1 billion (and you can bet, with standard government c...

Please turn out to hear ReThink280 present its alternative plan for U.S. 280 to the Vestavia Hills City Council on Monday, March 22 , 4:00...

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The ReThink280 group will present its alternative plan for U.S. 280 to the Mountain Brook City Council on Monday, March 22 , at 7:00pm , Mo...