I-22
Get started	Bexar
End	Birmingham
Length	95 mi
Length	153 km
Route Mississippi3 Bexar 7 Hamilton 11 Hamilton 14 Hamilton 16 22 County Road 45 26 Brilliant 30 Winfield 34 SR-233 39 Eldridge 46 Carbon Hill 52 Carbon Hill 53 Townley 57 West Jasper 61 Jasper 63 South Jasper 65 East Jasper 70 Cordova 72 County Road 61 78 Dora 81 West Jefferson 85 Graysville 87 Brookside 89 West Forestdale 91 Forestdale 93 Coalburg Road 95 → Birmingham / Huntsville

Interstate 22 is an Interstate Highway in the US state of Alabama. The highway crosses the state from west to east, from the Mississippi border at Bexar through Jasper to Birmingham. The highway is 153 kilometers long.

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Travel directions

I-22 on the Alabama-Mississippi border.

I-22 at the terminus in Birmingham.

Near Hamilton, Interstate 22 in Mississippi enters the state of Alabama from Memphis. The highway then heads southeast through a quiet rural area. The main town as far as the Birmingham area is the town of Jasper. The highway leads through a hilly area with a lot of forest and has 2×2 lanes over a long stretch until Jasper. Already from Jasper, I-22 has 2×3 lanes and leads via a varied route through the hilly forests to the agglomeration of Birmingham. Although the highway has 2×3 lanes for approximately 50 kilometres, traffic is very quiet because Birmingham is not very suburbanized in this area. The highway leads through a barely urbanized area, almost to the terminus. I-22 then ends in northern Birmingham at Interstate 65.

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History

Construction of Interstate 22 was approved by Congress in 1978. most of the freeway has been constructed over a new route and was numbered US 78 for a long time.

The US 78 freeway between Memphis and Birmingham was developed as Corridor X of the Appalachian Development Highway System. However, this did not happen directly as a freeway, initially the US 78 was widened to a 2×2 divided highway with at-grade intersections between Jasper and the suburbs of Birmingham in the late 1970s and early 1980s. The actual US 78 freeway was later constructed over a new route.

Construction on the US 78 freeway began in the second half of the 1980s on the stretch from the Mississippi state border to the south side of Hamilton. In the first half of the 1990s, construction was carried out from Hamilton to the southeast, and the Jasper diversion was added in the mid 1990s. Around 1998, the Carbon Hill diversion was also completed, which followed the Jasper diversion. In the period 1999-2001, the intermediate section was under construction and by 2004 a long stretch from the Mississippi border to Jasper was completed. The section between Jasper and Adamsville was subsequently constructed in the mid-2000s, bypassing the old 2×2 route over a new route, which was completed in 2006-2007. This completed almost the entire route between the Mississippi and Birmingham border. with the exception of the easternmost section which was built on a more northerly route to I-65 north of Birmingham. This section of I-22 was finally opened to traffic on June 20, 2016.

Since 2013, the US 78 freeway has also been renumbered I-22, leading to speculation that US 78 west of Birmingham could be scrapped because the entire route between Memphis and Birmingham coincides with I-22.

Traffic intensities

Every day 18,000 vehicles drive on the Mississippi border, 13,000 vehicles pass Hamilton, 15,000 to 19,000 vehicles continue to Jasper and 21,000 to 26,000 vehicles between Jasper and Birmingham.

Alabama’s Interstate 359

	I-359
Get started	I/20/I-59
End	Tuscaloosa
Length	2 mi
Length	4 km
Route → New Orleans / Birmingham1 35th Street 2 15th Street

Interstate 359 or I -359 is a short Interstate Highway in the US state of Alabama. The 4-kilometer highway spurts from I-20/59 to Tuscaloosa.

Travel directions

The end of I-359 at I-20/59.

I-359 connects I-20 and I-59 and Downtown Tuscaloosa. The highway has 2×3 lanes and is completely co-extensive with the longer State Highway 69, which continues north and south of I-359. The starting point is a clover turbine with I-20/59 and the ending point is two one-way roads through Downtown Tuscaloosa. In between is only one other junction at 35th Street.

History

Interstate 20/59, which opened in the 1960s, did not directly reach Tuscaloosa, but passed some distance south of the city. A new highway was planned to connect Tuscaloosa to I-20/59, with no other connections. Planning for the highway began as early as 1961, but construction was delayed and did not begin until 1980. On September 13, 1983, the highway was opened to traffic.

Traffic intensities

52,000 vehicles use I-359 daily.

Lane Configuration

From	Unpleasant	Lanes
Exit 0 (I-20)	Exit 3	2×3