page_title: Huntsville, Alabama
section_title: Transportation
hierarchical_section_title: Huntsville, Alabama / Infrastructure / Transportation
caption_attribution_description: Photograph of en:Interstate 565 as it passes by the en:US Space and Rocket Center in en:Huntsville, Alabama; taken by Larry Wilbourn
context_page_description: Huntsville is a city in the Appalachian region of northern Alabama. It is the county seat of Madison County but extends west into neighboring Limestone County and south into Morgan County.
  It was founded in 1805 and became an incorporated town in 1811. The city grew across nearby hills north of the Tennessee River, adding textile mills, then munitions factories, NASA's Marshall Space Flight Center and the United States Army Aviation and Missile Command nearby at the Redstone Arsenal. The National Trust for Historic Preservation named Huntsville to its "America's Dozen Distinctive Destinations for 2010" list.
  The city's population was 180,105 in 2010, making it Alabama's fourth-largest city. Huntsville is the largest city in the five-county Huntsville-Decatur-Albertville, AL Combined Statistical Area. The Huntsville metropolitan area's population was 417,593 in 2010, making it the second most populous metropolitan area in the state. The Huntsville metro's population reached 462,693 by 2018.
context_section_description: Huntsville is served by several U.S. Highways, including 72, 231, 431 and an Interstate highway spur, I-565, that links Huntsville and Decatur to I-65. Alabama Highway 53 also connects the city with I-65 in Ardmore, Tennessee. Major roadways include University Drive, Governors Drive, Airport Road, Memorial Parkway and Research Park Blvd.
  Cited as "Restore Our Roads", the city of Huntsville, between 2014 and 2019, will perform about $383 million worth of road construction to improve the transportation infrastructure. Some of the funds for the road work comes from an increase in sales tax, while others come from various sources including the Alabama Transportation Rehabilitation and Improvement Program. Major road projects include:
  Memorial Parkway overpasses at Martin Road, Lily Flagg, and Mastin Lake Road
  Widening US 72 over Chapman Mountain
  Widening US 72/University Drive from Providence Main Street to County Line Road from 4 lanes to 6 lanes
  Access and intersection improvements along Memorial Parkway
  Extending the Northern Bypass from Pulaski Pike to US-231/431
  Widening Cecil Ashburn Drive over Huntsville Mountain from 2 to 4 lanes
  Additional road projects include reconstructing Holmes Avenue over Pinhook Creek, widening Zierdt, Martin and Winchester Roads, widening Old Madison Pike from Cummings Research Park to the city of Madison, relocating and widening Church Street north of Downtown, relocating Wynn Drive to allow an extension of the Calhoun Community College campus, various improvements along US 431 north of Hampton Cove, creating a new Downtown Gateway with the extension of Harvard Road from Governors Drive to Williams Avenue for a direct connection to Downtown, and extending Weatherly Road to the new Grissom High School.
caption: The Saturn V replica at the US Space and Rocket Center stands as a prominent landmark near mile 15 on Interstate 565.
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