Birmingham Tracker

Weeks start on Sunday. One thing is counted once per place per day, and something that runs for days counts on the day it started. Brief lane blocks that cleared inside an hour are left out, closures scheduled to run longer than a week are roadworks rather than incidents, and an outage counts when it left 10 or more customers without power.

Areas are measured from 20th Street North and Morris Avenue in downtown Birmingham: within 2 miles is Downtown Birmingham, within 8 miles (about where I-459 runs) is that side of Birmingham, and beyond that is the metro. An item with no coordinates is counted in the totals but not placed on the map. Corridors come from the road a source named. Interstates are split into the stretch north, south, east or west of downtown Birmingham, since one number for a whole interstate hides where the trouble is. I-20 and I-59 share one roadway through the city and count as one corridor. Council districts are the City of Birmingham's own boundaries, from its GIS: the nine district seats, 1 to 9. Hoover, Vestavia Hills, Homewood, Mountain Brook, Bessemer and the rest of Greater Birmingham have no district drawn and are shown on the metro map.