
Thread: New Bridge Over ICWW - OBch to North Gulf Shores
-
04-20-2021, 01:20 PM #1
- Join Date
- Oct 2011
- Location
- Born, bred and someday dead in Midtown Mobile, AL
- Posts
- 10,166
- Thanks
- 7,916
- Thanked 13,511 Times in 3,993 Posts
- Blog Entries
- 6
New Bridge Over ICWW - OBch to North Gulf Shores
-
The Following 4 Users Say Thank You to Pier#r For This Useful Post:
-
04-20-2021, 02:00 PM #2
- Join Date
- Oct 2011
- Location
- Born, bred and someday dead in Midtown Mobile, AL
- Posts
- 10,166
- Thanks
- 7,916
- Thanked 13,511 Times in 3,993 Posts
- Blog Entries
- 6
That area along Canal Road (on the east bank of the Canal) is currently popular with from-shore fishermen, bird watchers and picnicers.
Hopefully, those public use aspects will not be lost. But instead enhanced (to a park) and extended to the west bank!
Last edited by Pier#r; 04-20-2021 at 02:04 PM.
-
04-20-2021, 03:20 PM #3
Bridge spanning to the octagon
Bill..............
-
The Following User Says Thank You to ironman172 For This Useful Post:
-
04-20-2021, 03:56 PM #4
- Join Date
- Nov 2012
- Location
- Gardendale,Ala/Gulf Shores
- Posts
- 1,564
- Thanks
- 677
- Thanked 1,966 Times in 479 Posts
Sure would be nice if they went on and extended it all the way to the beach would prevent a lot of traffic around Tacky Jacks.
-
04-20-2021, 08:10 PM #5
- Join Date
- Oct 2011
- Posts
- 1,563
- Thanks
- 291
- Thanked 1,568 Times in 400 Posts
AKA, the bridge to nowhere. Until a road is built through the park to get to 182, nothing will help the cluster on the island.
-
The Following 5 Users Say Thank You to john g For This Useful Post:
-
04-21-2021, 04:15 AM #6
- Join Date
- Apr 2013
- Location
- Foley, AL
- Posts
- 1,600
- Thanks
- 1,200
- Thanked 1,821 Times in 514 Posts
People are shocked to see sharks in the water around here.
If you see natural water taste it. If it's salty it has sharks in it. If it's fresh it has alligators in it. If it's brackish it has both.
-
04-22-2021, 10:49 AM #7
- Join Date
- Oct 2011
- Posts
- 173
- Thanks
- 16
- Thanked 242 Times in 76 Posts
I'm a retired local, so I know I'm being selfish, but I want no new roads coming down here. What happens as soon as they are built? Not better traffic, just more people. Every process has a bottleneck. Might as well be the roads. Otherwise, we won't stop growing until this place has been ruined. Again, I'm not a business owner and I know I'm being selfish, but I have lived here since 1978 and hate to see the continued growth. I'm sure I am in the minority in this one.
-
04-22-2021, 05:04 PM #8
- Join Date
- Jul 2012
- Location
- Orange Beach, AL
- Posts
- 5,110
- Thanks
- 4,556
- Thanked 12,070 Times in 1,928 Posts
Green_Steel, from a resident who has been a resident since 1972, the place has already been ruint. Money speaks louder than anything or anybody, and there are a whole lot of places that haven't been paved over yet on the island. They won't stop. Like the old song said, "They paved paradise and put up a parking lot."
-
04-22-2021, 11:27 PM #9
- Join Date
- Jul 2013
- Posts
- 318
- Thanks
- 120
- Thanked 275 Times in 107 Posts
I used to mess with Milton now and then and say” what they need to do is pave triple horse shoe ranch road-that would solve everything!” He wasn’t amused!
-
04-23-2021, 11:17 AM #10
- Join Date
- Oct 2011
- Posts
- 173
- Thanks
- 16
- Thanked 242 Times in 76 Posts
I’ll be sliding into town March 10-14. Can you have it warm and sunny for me then? And also, how about having the fish biting??? :D
2025 5pm PIER CLOSURES