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Public Comments on the Statewide Transportation Involvement Program (SELC – 6/21/23)
https://blackwarriorriver.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/06/2023.6.21-SELC-BWRK-comments-on-STIP.pdf
Public Comments on the Birmingham 2050 Regional Transportation Plan (SELC – 5/10/23)
https://blackwarriorriver.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/05/2023.5.10-SELC-comments-on-the-RTP.pdf
Resolution by Indian Springs, Ala opposing the Northern Beltline (5/7/13)
IndianSpringsNorthernBeltlineResolution
EPA “B Letter” to U.S. Army Corps of Engineers (9/11/12)
BirminghamNorthernBeltline_SAM-2011-01079_EPA.B-ltr_9.11.12
EPA “A Letter” to U.S. Army Corps of Engineers (8/17/12)
BirminghamNorthernBeltline_SAM-2011-01079_A-ltr
If You Build It, Will They Come? Reassessing the Economic Impacts of the Northern Beltline Project (Ochs Center for Metropolitan Studies – 6/19/12) https://www.southernenvironment.org/uploads/publications/nb_report_final.pdf
Scientific Review of the Northern Beltline’s Final Environmental Impact Statement Reevaluation (Cahaba River Society – 6/20/12) https://cahabariversociety.org/programs/roads-and-sewers/
The public was invited to submit public comments to ALDOT through 10/14/11. Southern Environmental Law Center submitted these comments on behalf of Black Warrior Riverkeeper. Additionally, among the many other comments submitted in opposition to the current Beltline plan, see these from SOURCE and Cahaba Riverkeeper.
Public Comments on the Birmingham Metropolitan Planning Organization’s FY 2012-2015 Transportation Improvement Program (TIP) (SELC on behalf of BWRk – 8/9/11) https://www.southernenvironment.org/uploads/pages/file/northern_beltline/2011-08-09_SELC,BWRK_comments_on_MPO_TIP.pdf
Repair Priorities: Transportation spending strategies to save taxpayer dollars and improve roads – Smart Growth America (June 2011) http://www.smartgrowthamerica.org/repair-priorities
The chosen 52 mile Northern Beltline route is opposed by the EPA due to its extensive environmental impact. The following letters relay EPA’s stance that it is the most environmentally destructive of the 7 considered routes:
– 1997 EPA letter:
EPA Comment Letter 9-08-97
– 1995 EPA letter:
USEPA Comment Letter 7-08-95
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