The project has been several years in the planning. Back in 1995 The Spirit of Anniston started the ball rolling with the RBA Engineering Group out of Atlanta. The City Council at that time didn’t vote in favor of the project. It stayed on the back burner and was revisited in 1997. The engineer assigned to the project had moved to URS Engineering, but he stayed in touch. In 2000, the project was considered again, but no action was taken. In 2002 the Anniston City Council voted in favor of the project and construction began in the summer 2003.

     The City of Anniston Public Works Department, The Anniston Water Works and Sewer Board, URS Engineering Corporation, Bellsouth, Alagasco, The Spirit of Anniston and the Cardwell Corporation all play an important role in the project.

    If you haven’t taken a drive in Downtown Anniston in a while, you need to! The Noble Street Infrastructure Project, which has been underway for several months now, is really making a great improvement to our downtown area.

Although beautiful sidewalks, wider driving lanes, wider parking spaces, better lighting and nicer landscaping are the improvements most people will notice, these were not the driving force behind the project. The drainage problems, the leaking water lines, the crown in the middle of the road, the trip hazards on the old sidewalks, and the driving lanes that were narrower than the national recommended width, were what really needed to be addressed. If all this needs to be fixed, why not make it beautiful at the same time?

 Maybe it’s time for you to take that drive down Noble Street and see what you’ve been missing!

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