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Battleship Parkway, commonly referred to locally and in the media as the "Causeway", is a long
causeway A causeway is a track, road or railway on the upper point of an embankment across "a low, or wet place, or piece of water". It can be constructed of earth, masonry, wood, or concrete. One of the earliest known wooden causeways is the Sweet T ...
that carries
US 90 U.S. Route 90 or U.S. Highway 90 (US 90) is an east–west major United States highway in the Southern United States. Despite the "0" in its route number, US 90 never was a full coast-to-coast route. It generally travels near Int ...
and
US 98 U.S. Route 98 (US 98) is an east–west United States Highway in the Southeastern United States that runs from western Mississippi to southern Florida. It was established in 1933 as a route between Pensacola, Florida, Pensacola and Apalachicola, ...
eastbound across
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from the
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on Blakeley Island in
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to
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. The roadway itself is a four-lane divided highway for most of its length. It is very susceptible to flooding and is usually submerged during
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s. The Battleship Parkway is home to Battleship Memorial Park and to many of the Mobile area's more prominent seafood restaurants.


History

It was constructed in 1926 as a series of raised earthen embankments and concrete
bridge A bridge is a structure built to Span (engineering), span a physical obstacle (such as a body of water, valley, road, or railway) without blocking the path underneath. It is constructed for the purpose of providing passage over the obstacle, whi ...
s. It was the only road connection between Mobile and
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counties over Mobile Bay until the construction of the nearby
Jubilee Parkway The Jubilee Parkway is a pair of parallel concrete viaduct bridges that carry Interstate 10 in Alabama, Interstate 10 across Mobile Bay from the George Wallace Tunnel on Blakeley Island (Alabama), Blakeley Island in Mobile, Alabama eastbound to ...
in 1978. In 2007 a turtle chainlink fence was constructed along part of the causeway to protect the Alabama red bellied cooter from traffic.


See also

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References

Bridges in Mobile, Alabama Bridges completed in 1926 Mobile Bay Road bridges in Alabama U.S. Route 90 U.S. Route 98 Bridges of the United States Numbered Highway System 1926 establishments in Alabama Concrete bridges in the United States {{alabama-road-stub