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Alabama River Toll Bridge

Elmore County, Alabama, and Montgomery County, Alabama

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Alabama River Toll Bridge

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Photo taken by American Roads, LLC

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BH Photo #472736

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Description 

This modern concrete stringer bridge is notable at both a state and national level as one of a dropping number of privately-owned toll bridges in the United States - where a private operator maintains the bridge and approach roadways solely with toll dollars and donations without any tax revenue or state assistance. Additionally, the Alabama River Toll Bridge is one of four such facilities within the state of Alabama - the others being the Emerald Mountain Toll Bridge, the Tuscaloosa Western Bypass Bridge, and the Foley Beach Express Bridge.

All four Alabama toll bridges are privately maintained by American Roads, LLC. Despite being under private ownership, electronic toll collection is accepted, although the transponders used (FreedomPass) were created by American Roads and not by ALDOT and therefore only work in Alabama and are not interoperable with any other toll facility.

Facts 

Overview
Concrete stringer bridge over Alabama River on Alabama River Parkway/Montgomery Expressway
Location
Montgomery, Elmore County, Alabama, and Montgomery County, Alabama
Status
Open to traffic
History
Built 1998
Builder
- American Roads, LLC
Design
Concrete stringer
Dimensions
Length of largest span: 214.9 ft.
Total length: 1,015.1 ft.
Deck width: 60.0 ft.
Also called
Montgomery Expressway Toll Bridge
Approximate latitude, longitude
+32.43596, -86.31568   (decimal degrees)
32°26'09" N, 86°18'56" W   (degrees°minutes'seconds")
Approximate UTM coordinates
16/564330/3588966 (zone/easting/northing)
Average daily traffic (as of 2018)
4,620
Inventory numbers
AL 17329 (Alabama bridge number)
BH 89408 (Bridgehunter.com ID)
Inspection report (as of October 2018)
Overall condition: Fair
Superstructure condition rating: Satisfactory (6 out of 9)
Substructure condition rating: Good (7 out of 9)
Deck condition rating: Satisfactory (6 out of 9)
Sufficiency rating: 92.2 (out of 100)
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Categories 

Alabama (973)
Alabama River (3)
American Roads, LLC (5)
Beam (16,022)
Built 1998 (89)
Built during 1990s (730)
Concrete (87)
Concrete deck (139)
Concrete stringer (817)
County line crossing (532)
 Elmore County, Alabama (17)
Modern (2,477)
Montgomery County, Alabama (21)
Montgomery, Alabama (12)
Open (40,082)
Owned privately (1,794)
Span length 175-250 feet (1,999)
Toll (172)
Total length 1000-2500 feet (1,905)

Update Log 

  • May 25, 2020: New photo from Nick Boppel

Sources 

  • Nick Boppel - nickboppel01 [at] gmail [dot] com

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