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Blasting on I-20 will come to a halt during the holidays
Progress 20, the Alabama Department of Transportation’s project to widen the four-lane down Interstate 20 in St. Clair County, has continued to make progress over the past several weeks. The project hopes to benefit the area by adding six lanes of through traffic between Birmingham and Pell City including widening lanes and providing safer driving conditions.
Blasting in the area has been ongoing nightly between the Brompton Exit (exit 147) and the Cook Springs Exit (exit 152) as long as weather permits and state troopers have been providing rolling roads block that slow traffic for approximately 20 minutes while the blast is detonated and cleaned up.
According to ALDOT, blasting is set to occur several times per week for the next six months and they warn motorists to expect slower traffic and minor delays. A reduced speed limit of 45 mph is in effect throughout the work zone and motorists should use extreme caution.
Blasting will occur on Friday, December 18 and will carry over one more night early next week. However, Rebecca Leigh White of ALDOT’s Communications and Community Relations Bureau said that the blasting would not occur during the holiday season, adding that the project will break at the end of next week and will pick back up at the first of the year.
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