The coming of the Toyota-Mazda plant to Huntsville's patch in Limestone County has reignited the push for a bridge over Alabama 20.

The Decatur Daily is reporting that Decatur officials are talking again about a bridge - a project that became stalled in litigation over a proposed Bass Pro Shops.

Toyota-Mazda's plant, projected to open in 2021, is only four miles from the site of the former Bass Pro site, as well as Polaris and Bocar, the paper is reporting.

The building of a bridge across Alabama 20 was proposed about a decade ago, when Bass Pro first considered the property.

Dewayne Hellums, head of the Metropolitan Planning Organization, said the average daily traffic count on Alabama 20 in 2016 was 32,000. That's when the most recent traffic data is available.

The bridge projected in 2014 would have cost about $12 million, with Decatur paying $4 million and the Alabama Department of Transportation paying the rest. It would be located just east of Apple Lane Farms, and would provide access to undeveloped acreage south of Alabama 20 and to Bibb-Garrett Road north of Alabama 20.

"We're in a different era today," Wally Terry, director of development for Decatur, told the paper. "Now we're in an era where the traffic and the demands that are going to be placed on (the south) side of the river to serve the new plants and to develop that property dictate that we move forward."

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