Mayor: Beach Express will not harm businesses  ROBERTSDALE, Ala.
(WALA) - In the coming weeks, traffic will pick up on Highway 59
as thousands make their way to the beaches on Gulf Shores and
Orange Beach.  When Spring Break season and the summer vacation
months pick up, driving gets a little more complicated for the
locals in small towns like Robertsdale.  "I think everyone in
the local communities can attest, especially on Friday
afternoons and Saturdays, and Sunday afternoon we go almost to
gridlock. Because of the traffic volume on 59.  So we need to do
something to kind of shove that to another route," Robertsdale
Mayor Charles Murphy said.  That's what the Baldwin Beach
Express interchange is expected to do: take a lot of the
gridlock traffic to another route.  The Beach Express will meet
the interstate at mile marker 49.  That shortcut could also take
business dollars away for the communities as tourists start
bypassing the small towns. However, Murphy doesn't think that
will be a problem.  "I think it