padredw wrote:
This is good news, indeed.
Some years ago, we had been around Birmingham many times on the bypass on I-20 to Atlanta, one of the easiest cities to get through and excellent wide freeways. On this trip we going to Gadsden, so we transitioned off that bypass onto I-59 North thinking it would be a similar route.
Wow! This was the first, and only, time I ever actually decided to pull off at the first opportunity to find whatever other route possible. We wound around some pretty "local roads" until we came to a detour that forced us back onto I-59. Fortunately the freeway surface was not nearly as bad as that we had abandoned earlier.
I have traveled I-20 more times than I can count from East Texas to Atlanta, and I-10/I-12 across Louisianna almost as many times, but I never found a section on either as bad as that section of I-59 north of the intersection with I-20 East of Birmingham.
Thanks for the good news. Even if we never take that route again it is good to know that we would never have such an experience again as we did that one time.
Since you only went to Gadsden you did not see the
bad part. That was the part between Gadsden and Fort Payne
