Mobile County’s 2026 road and bridge plan: What’s on the Nov. 3 ballot

Mobile County voters will weigh in on $82 million in road and bridge improvements when they head to the polls for the Nov. 3 General Election.

The 2026 Pay-As-You-Go Transportation Improvement Program would fund 39 projects covering 89.8 miles of roadway and six bridges, with no new taxes and no new debt, according to the county. It’s the last item on the Mobile County ballot, listed as “Special County Election.”

What’s in the 2026 Mobile County road and bridge program

Projects on the list include:

• Reconstructing Dauphin Street from Fulton Street to Broad Street
• Widening part of Azalea Road and building a new bridge over Montlimar Creek
• Improving the intersection at Celeste Road and Radcliff Road
• Improving the intersection at Fowl River Road and State Route 193 and replacing the Fowl River Road bridge
• Replacing two bridges on Beverly Jefferies Highway over the Escatawpa River

Every one of Mobile County’s 11 municipalities has at least one project, and the program also covers unincorporated areas.

How Mobile County’s Pay-As-You-Go program works

This is the 21st time the program has appeared on the ballot. Voters have approved it all 20 previous times. Since 1977, it has funded more than 700 projects covering nearly 1,600 miles of roadway and more than 40 bridges.

The county collects the money in advance of each two-year program, which is how it pays for projects without new taxes or debt. Projects typically take several years to finish after approval because of surveying, design, permitting, right-of-way acquisition and construction.

Where to find the ballot and project list

• View the sample ballot
• See the 2026 proposed program and engineering reports

The verbiage on the ballot is:

“Shall Mobile County in the State of Alabama be authorized to issue from time to time and in one or more series its Pay-As-You-Go Road, Bridge and Drainage Facilities Bonds, not exceeding $82,000,000 in principal amount, for the purpose of raising funds for the construction and improvement, or either, of hard surfaced roads, hard surfaced bridges, and surface water drainage facilities, or any thereof in the county, which bonds shall bear interest at a rate or rates to be fixed when they are sold, not exceeding eight percent (8%) per annum, payable semiannually until their respective maturities, and shall mature and become payable on December 1 in the aggregate principal amount of $8,200,000 in each of the years 2030 through 2039, and shall the said county be authorized to continue to levy annually a special tax, on all taxable property in the county, at a rate not exceeding six and one-half mills on each dollar of the assessed valuation of such property, for the purpose of paying at their respective maturities the principal of and interest on the said bonds and all other bonds at any time outstanding which may be payable out of or constitute a charge on the said special tax, all pursuant to the provisions of the Constitution of Alabama of 2022, Local Provisions Section 49-3.00, as amended, and Section 49-3.11?”