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Sylacauga marble, also commonly known as Alabama marble, is a marble that is found in a belt running through Talladega County, Alabama. [1] It is prized for its pure white color and its crystalline structure. The stone is named after the town of Sylacauga, Alabama, which is sometimes called "the Marble City". [2]
The Alabama Department of Transportation (ALDOT) is the government agency responsible for transportation infrastructure in Alabama. The Department is organized into five geographic regions, with a Central Office located in Montgomery, AL. The Central Office is organized into the Office of the Transportation Director and the Office of the Chief ...
The Alabama Department of Transportation estimated it would take several months to replace the top 8 inches of the concrete deck over an unspecified area of the damaged bridge. The two northbound lanes were completely closed during construction, with the two southbound lanes divided into one southbound and one northbound lane. [5]
The company expects to quarry stone from the RDU property for at least 25 years. Wake Stone requested the change. The company cited the state Mining Commission’s decision in April 1981 to allow ...
Besides water transportation, modern roads, railroads, and aviation, aerospace is Alabama's largest industrial industry. With major sites of the Marshall Space Flight Center and the Redstone Arsenal located in Hunstville, Alabama, Alabama's aerospace industry consists of four sectors: space, defense, aviation, and maintenance, repair, and overhaul.
All numbered highways in Alabama are maintained by the Alabama Department of Transportation (ALDOT). Currently, there are 11 routes and 1,130 miles (1,820 km) of Interstates in Alabama. The Interstate with the longest segment in Alabama is Interstate 65 , covering 367.00 miles (590.63 km); the shortest is Interstate 359 , covering 2.30 miles (3 ...
Actual planning for I-359 commenced in 1961, [2] and, by 1971, the Alabama Department of Transportation (ALDOT) announced that federal funding would be sought for its construction. [10] Planning for the corridor continued throughout the 1970s, only to stall briefly due to complications with the required environmental impact assessment ...
As a result, in 1991, the Metropolitan Planning Agency of West Alabama working with the Alabama Department of Transportation began a study of a bypass around the city. [2] By 1992, Senator Richard Shelby and Alabama congressman Claude Harris were successful in securing $6.4 million in federal funds for engineering studies, land acquisition, and ...