FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
March 27, 2023
Part of I-59N reopening in Etowah and DeKalb counties
HUNTSVILLE — The Alabama Department of Transportation advises motorists that more than five miles
of reconstructed northbound roadway of Interstate 59 between Reece City and Collinsville are being
reopened this afternoon.
The northbound roadway from near milepost 194, south of Stephens Gap Road in northern Etowah
County, to about a mile north of the DeKalb County line has been closed for replacement, with all traffic
shifted to the southbound roadway, since last summer.
The southbound roadway will remain reduced to one lane while barriers are removed and relocated for
the next phase of the project.
Motorists are advised to expect a lane closure beginning at milepost 198 for work to construct a
crossover for a future traffic shift to the southbound roadway to allow reconstruction of the next five
mile-segment of the northbound roadway, from milepost 199.5 to south of Exit 205 (Alabama 68) in
DeKalb County. Once all 11 miles of roadway have been reconstructed, contractor Wiregrass
Construction will pave the final layer on the entire project. The $44 million project is anticipated to be
complete in late spring or early summer of 2024.
This project, a recently-completed $25.2 million project that replaced about eight miles of the
northbound roadway through Fort Payne, and a recently-begun $40.8 million project to reconstruct the
northbound roadway from Fort Payne to Hammondville, represent a combined total of about $110
million invested by the state so far in reconstructing I-59 through northeast Alabama.
