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George C. Wallace Tunnel

Mobile County, Alabama

Photos 

Photo taken by Calvin Sneed in June 2010

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BH Photo #168309

Map 

Street Views 

Description 

Sections pre-assembled, brought to location, then sunk 40 feet below ship channel.. Sections concreted together to form seal (method similar to Bankhead Tunnel located just north of it).

Facts 

Overview
Dual four-lane tunnel under Mobile River on I-10 in Mobile
Location
Mobile, Mobile County, Alabama
Status
Open to traffic
History
Built 1973
Design
Tunnel
Dimensions
Total length: 3,000.1 ft. (0.6 mi.)
Approximate latitude, longitude
+30.68994, -88.03536   (decimal degrees)
30°41'24" N, 88°02'07" W   (degrees°minutes'seconds")
Approximate UTM coordinates
16/400836/3395697 (zone/easting/northing)
Quadrangle map:
Mobile
Inventory numbers
AL 10851 (Alabama bridge number)
BH 10174 (Bridgehunter.com ID)

Categories 

Alabama (1,014)
Built 1973 (106)
Built during 1970s (994)
Have street view (29,147)
Immersed Tube Tunnel (29)
Interstate 10 (25)
 Mobile County, Alabama (29)
Mobile, Alabama (17)
Open (41,012)
Owned by state (16,591)
Total length over 2500 feet (953)
Tunnel (1,360)

Update Log 

  • April 7, 2012: New photo from David Backlin
  • July 22, 2011: New Street View added by Ben Tate
  • July 8, 2010: New photo from Nathan Morton
  • June 23, 2010: New photos from Calvin Sneed

Sources 

  • Calvin Sneed - us43137415 [at] yahoo [dot] com
  • Nathan Morton - morton890 [at] yahoo [dot] com
  • Ben Tate - benji5221 [at] yahoo [dot] com
  • David Backlin - us71 [at] cox [dot] net
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George C. Wallace Tunnel
Posted August 22, 2010, by Marcus Johns (jake_brake1985 [at] yahoo [dot] com)

under the wallace tunnel and the bankhead tunnel there are a seirous of abbandend subway tunnels I have cleaned parts of them they would not let us look around and would not tell us much about them could you check into it few people even know about it and i have been tryen to get info on them for years thank you