More than two years after debates on toll pricing and other issues stalled out ambitious plans for a new bridge and updated causeway, the $2.7-billion Mobile Bridge and Bayway project is back on the to-do list for the Alabama Dept. of Transportation (ALDOT).

In July, the Mobile and Eastern Shore metropolitan planning organizations (MPOs) voted unanimously to add the project back to the state’s Transportation Improvement Plan, after reworking its toll structure.