Interstate love song

Corridor X has cost too much and has taken too long to build. It's still not done. It won't be done for another seven years.

But that won't stop highway officials from designating the corridor as Interstate 22 on Monday. The "interstate," which abruptly ends in bucolic Walker County right now, eventually will replace U.S. 78 as the main Birmingham-to-Memphis thoroughfare at a cost of a mere $1 billion and counting just for the portion in Alabama. It'll be convenient when it's finally finished, assuming it ever is.