The Birmingham Gate is normally open on weekdays, 5:00am until 5:30pm. It's closed on weekends. It's the gate I use when I go to the Navy Exchange or the commissary.
The traffic nightmare this has created is ridiculous. The gate is about two miles from the beltway (I-295) on Roosevelt Blvd., which is the only artery to the base, from both the north and the south. All three gates are open to traffic in the mornings to facilitate people going to work. There are over 21,000 people who work on the base, so shutting down a third of the access to the base has some substantial negative impact.
Traffic was backed up to the middle of the Buckman Bridge, which is almost five miles from the Birmingham Gate. And, as you might imagine, traffic was moving at a crawl...
