Alabaster receives $2M in funding from Ivey for Highway 119 improvements
Published 3:00 pm Thursday, January 30, 2025
- Gov. Kay Ivey announces that the city of Alabaster is receiving $2 million in Transportation Rehabilitation Improvement Program-II grants to help fund a project to improve traffic flow along Highway 119 (File)
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By NOAH WORTHAM | Managing Editor
ALABASTER – On Friday, Jan. 30, Gov. Kay Ivey announced that the city of Alabaster has been awarded $2 million in Alabama Transportation Rehabilitation Improvement Program-II grants to help fund a project to improve traffic flow along Highway 119.
The total cost for the improvement project is $2,832,500 with the ATRIP-II funds accounting for $2 million with $250,000 from Shelby County and a city match by Alabaster of $582,500. The city previously approved the application for the grant in October 2024.
“Thank you to Shelby County Alabama for partnering with us on the local match for this grant, and to Sain Associates for their help in submitting the grant application,” read an official Facebook post by the city of Alabaster.
Through this grant, the city aims to upgrade the traffic signals at every intersection along Hwy 119 between Fulton Spring Road and U.S. 31. Additionally, the city hopes to modify the intersection of Hwy 119 and Kent Dairy Road to add a dedicated left turn lane for those exiting near the Starbucks and Wendy’s businesses. Alabaster also plans to also make the entrance into the Central State Bank parking lot on Kent Dairy Road a right-in, right-out only and to upgrade the traffic signal at the intersection.
The city of Alabaster announced that it also intends to utilize the funds to install new mast arm traffic signal poles at the Hwy 119, First Street Southwest and the Plaza Circle/Kent Stone Boulevard intersections to match the new mast arms installed at Fulton Springs Road and 11th Ave. Southwest.
“We are funding intersection improvements and new traffic signals at 119-Thompson Road as part of the upcoming rec center project,” read a Facebook post by Alabaster. “This is an exciting day for Alabaster.”
Funds for the ATRIP-II grants is part of an annual program that sets aside $30 million in funds off of the top of the Alabama Department of Transportation’s share of gas tax revenue for projects of local interest on the state’s highway system.
The ATRIP-II grant for Alabaster is part of more than $40 million in state transportation funding that Ivey announced.
“I am proud of the hard work we have put in throughout my Administration to Rebuild Alabama. Rebuild Alabama has helped make us stronger as we have broken ground on hundreds of road and bridge projects all across the state,” Ivey said. “We have projects improving Alabama in all 67 counties, but our job is not finished and we are not slowing down now.”