DRIVE Alabama Takes County Officials on Road Tours
The DRIVE Alabama Campaign is focused on letting legislators know what the conditions of roads are like across the state.
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The DRIVE Alabama Campaign is focused on letting legislators know what the conditions of roads are like across the state. Elmore and Autauga County representatives and engineers took a tour of the worst roads on Wednesday.
All representatives agree, roads are an essential part of a growing community.
“Infrastructure is the key. We have to have good and safe infrastructure all across our counties and our state,” says Clyde Chambliss, State Senator. “And when we have that good infrastructure, then we have the veins that the engine can use for the lifeblood and the economy to work on a local and also state level.”
With miles of gravel roads and frequent periods of traffic congestion in both counties, expanding Autauga and Elmore Counties might be difficult.
“Everybody wants their road in the best shape, every tax payer in the county does,” says Mike Holmes, Elmore County Representative. “And that’s with the resources we have to deal with that’s not always possible. But we do the best job we can.”
DRIVE Alabama’s tour highlighting the worst of the worst roads is intended to remind the representatives of the road conditions in their counties. The hope is that the more attention the roads get, the more funding the Alabama Transportation Rehabilitation and Improvement Program will put into fixing the bad roads.
“We’re trying to do this to show them how if we had more money to work on these roads, what it could mean for the quality if life, and for economic development, creating more jobs, sustaining more jobs, and just helping Alabama grow in general,” says Richie Beyer, Elmore County engineer.
