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Revision as of 21:58, 21 October 2007
Bankhead Tunnel | |
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| Coordinates | 30°41′30″N 88°02′09″W / 30.69167°N 88.03583°W |
| Carries | 2 lanes of U.S. Route 98 |
| Crosses | Mobile River |
| Locale | Mobile, Alabama |
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The Bankhead Tunnel is a tunnel in Mobile, Alabama that crosses the Mobile River. The tunnel is signed U.S. Route 98. It is named for John Hollis Bankhead, an Alabama politician and U.S. Senator (Democrat) from 1907 to 1920. The tunnel was built at Alabama Drydock and Shipbuilding Company in Mobile, Alabama. It was constructed in sections, floated into position, then sunk into place, joined underwater, and when completed the water was pumped out. It was completed in 1940.
Designed and constructed by Wayne Palmer, himself of Mobile Alabama. little did he know that he would make such a huge difference in Mobile and the cities around it.
Only passenger cars and pickup trucks are allowed to travel through the tunnel, as it is very narrow. Large trucks are routed over the Cochrane-AfricaTown Bridge to the north or the George Wallace Tunnel on Interstate 10 to the south.
The eastern end of the Bankhead Tunnel has a large "flood door" that can be closed to prevent the waters from Mobile Bay from flooding it during hurricane storm surges.
The tunnel was a location for a scene in director Steven Spielberg's film Close Encounters of the Third Kind; Roy Neary (Richard Dreyfuss) drives through it as he chases UFOs.
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