Start: Mobile, AL – End: Carlston, MO
Est. Length: TBD s (Mobile to I-155 @ Dyersburg, TN)
Benefits: Homeland Security, Economic Development, Population Centers, Evacuation Route, Existing Highways
Connecting: AL: Mobile. MS: Meridian, Starkville/Columbus, Tupelo, Corinth. TN: Jackson, Dyersburg @ I-155.
Intersections: I-20/59 Meridian, MS; I-16 Extension Columbus/Starkville, MS; I-22 Tupelo, MS; I-40 Jackson, TN, I-55, Carlston, MO.
Description: A new Interstate, I-7 provides a critical northern route from the Gulf Coast at Mobile, Alabama. The northern route provides links to northern population centers to Gulf Coast ports. I-7 will also relieve Interstate’s 65 and 59 as a critical hurricane evacuation route. As the resident and tourist populations continue to grow along the Gulf Coast, better transportation routes are required for economic opportunity as well as for emergency evacuations.
The connection at Dyersburg allows for the re-designation of I-155 to I-7 and creates the terminus for I-7 at Carleston, MO. Future expansions would provide important economic route between the Midwest and Southern states.
2 comments:
No way. Interstate 7, if it were to exist, would be in California. In fact, the feds are looking at several proposals running from I-5 northward into Oregon, Washington and as far north as the Canadian border, which is more in line with their "CANAMEX" freeway push.
I would think that I-57 (if not extended into Arkansas to Little Rock) or I-61 (if approved due to US 61 being not far away) would be a better number for this proposed interstate.
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