Photo by Erin Nelson.
Traffic moves along Main Street in downtown Trussville through a new intersection at Glenn Avenue on Nov. 19.
There are projects and change aplenty on the docket for Trussville in 2025. To kick off the new year, we’re highlighting five things worth attention in the new year, including some road infrastructure updates around the city.
One infrastructure emphasis in 2025 will be the loop roads in the downtown Trussville area. Relocating utilities has been a city focus since 2023 to prepare for construction. The first road connection will begin at Talley Street and pass in front of where the Trussville Church of Christ building once was and behind Trussville First United Methodist Church. It will connect with Glenn Avenue, which ends at the intersection with Main Street by Marco’s Pizza, where there is now a traffic signal.
The second loop will involve creating a road between North Chalkville Road and Edgar’s Bakery, connecting near the John Street and Vann Circle area. Trussville Mayor Buddy Choat has previously said that engineers estimate the loop roads will take approximately 9,000 cars per day out of the Main Street-Chalkville Road intersection.
If bids come in reasonably, that work could begin in 2025. Choat said he expects that the project will take 18 to 24 months to construct.
“We started on this thing two and a half, almost three years ago, really laying the plans,” Choat said. “We've done a lot. It's going to be, if the pricing is too high, we'll have to do like [Alabama Department of Transportation] did, just have to regroup and refocus. But it's an infrastructure project that would really benefit the city, obviously, in the future, and hopefully the bids come in to where it won't just make it impossible for us to do that. That's a big infrastructure project for us.”
Check out the rest of the articles in our 5 Changes for 2025 series here.
