Bankhead Tunnel
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| Bankhead Tunnel | |
| Carries | 2 lanes of U.S. Route 98 |
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| Crosses | Mobile River |
| Locale | Mobile, Alabama |
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The Bankhead Tunnel is a tunnel in Mobile, Alabama that crosses the Mobile River. The tunnel is signed U.S. Route 98. It is named for William Brockman Bankhead, an Alabama politician and Speaker of the U.S. House of Representatives (Democrat) from 1936 to 1940.
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The tunnel was a location for a scene in director Steven Spielberg's film Close Encounters of the Third Kind; Roy Neary (Richard Dreyfuss) drives through it as he chases UFOs.
| Crossings of the Mobile River | |||
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| Upstream Cochrane-Africatown USA Bridge     |
Bankhead Tunnel |
Downstream George Wallace Tunnel  |
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The Tunnel was Built at the old ADDSCO Shipyards in Mobile Alabama. It was constructed in sections, and Floated into position, then Sunk into place, joined underwater, and when completed the water was pumped out.
