{{short description|State highway in Alabama, United States}} {{Use American English|date=March 2025}} {{Use mdy dates|date=January 2025}} {{Infobox road |state=AL |type=AL |route=216 |map={{maplink|frame=yes|plain=yes|frame-align=center|frame-width=300|type=line|raw={{Wikipedia:Map data/Wikipedia KML/Alabama State Route 216}}}} |map_custom=yes |alternate_name= |length_mi=26.1 |length_round= |length_ref=<ref name="ALDOT Map">{{cite map |url=http://www.dot.state.al.us/NR/rdonlyres/7E832F57-3D50-4AF2-98FF-23816DABA59F/0/co63.pdf |publisher=Alabama Department of Transportation |title=General Highway Map of Tuscaloosa County |year=1999 |cartography=ALDOT Bureau of Transportation Planning, Survey & Mapping Division |url-status=dead |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20081124143807/http://www.dot.state.al.us/NR/rdonlyres/7E832F57-3D50-4AF2-98FF-23816DABA59F/0/co63.pdf |archivedate=2008-11-24 }}</ref> |established=1978 |direction_a=West |terminus_a={{jct|state=AL|SR|215}} at Tuscaloosa |junction= |direction_b=East |terminus_b={{jct|state=AL|I|20|I|59|US|11|SR|5}} at Bucksville |counties=Tuscaloosa |previous_type=AL |previous_route=215 |next_type=AL |next_route=217 }}
'''State Route 216''' ('''SR 216''') is a numbered state highway in Tuscaloosa County, Alabama. SR 216 follows the former route of US 11 through eastern Tuscaloosa County. It serves as an alternate route between Bessemer and Tuscaloosa (the other routes being I-20/59 and US 11). The route was commissioned in April 1978 after ALDOT took over the route formerly maintained by Tuscaloosa County as County Road 116.<ref name="April 28, 1978">{{cite news | url = https://news.google.com/newspapers?id=di4dAAAAIBAJ&sjid=_J0EAAAAIBAJ&dq=Highway%20140&pg=1972%2C6993834 | title = County highway renamed | first = Ed | last = Watkins | newspaper = The Tuscaloosa News | date = April 28, 1978 | page = 1 }}</ref>
==Route description== SR 216 starts in eastern Tuscaloosa at University Boulevard (SR 215) and Veterans' Memorial Drive and ends just as it crosses over I-20/59 and US 11 and SR 5 in Bucksville, just short of the Tuscaloosa-Jefferson county line. Though it connects to the twinned interstates at Exit 100, no mentioned is made of the route on interstate signage. The road continues under county maintenance into Jefferson County.
The highway passes through the coal-mining country of eastern Tuscaloosa County. The largest towns on the highway are Brookwood and Lake View. The highway is mostly narrow and windy and is known for the high number of fatal accidents on the Brookwood-to-Tuscaloosa stretch.<ref>[http://cramer.house.gov/HoR/AL06/Press+Room/Spencer+In+the+News/2005/Seeking+More+Funds+and+Fewer+Fatalities.htm $1.8 Million set aside for Highway 216]{{Dead link|date=September 2019 |bot=InternetArchiveBot |fix-attempted=yes }}</ref>
==Major intersections== {{jcttop|length_ref=<ref name="ALDOT Map"/>|state=AL|county=Tuscaloosa}} {{ALint |location=Tuscaloosa |mile=0.0 |road={{jct|state=AL|SR|215|name1=University Boulevard}}<ref name="google-WT">{{google maps |url=https://maps.google.com/?ie=UTF8&ll=33.197184,-87.478815&spn=0.002792,0.005681&t=h&z=18 |title=SR 216/Western terminus |accessdate=2009-04-28}}</ref> |notes=Western terminus. }} {{ALint |location=Bucksville |mile=26.1 |road={{jct|state=AL|I|20|I|59|US|11|SR|5|name4=SR 7|city1=Birmingham|city2=Tuscaloosa}}<ref name="google-ET">{{google maps |url=https://maps.google.com/?ie=UTF8&ll=33.279499,-87.095361&spn=0.005579,0.011362&t=h&z=17 |title=SR 216/Eastern terminus |accessdate=2009-04-28}}</ref> |notes=I-20/59 exit 100; eastern terminus. }} {{jctbtm}}
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Category:Transportation in Tuscaloosa, Alabama 216 Category:Transportation in Tuscaloosa County, Alabama Category:U.S. Route 11