Editing Anniston, Alabama (section)

==Infrastructure==
===Transportation===
The following major highways pass through Anniston:
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* [[File:US 431.svg|23px]] [[U.S. Highway 431]] (Anniston Eastern Bypass/Golden Springs Road)
* [[File:Alabama 21.svg|20px]] [[State Route 21 (Alabama)|State Route 21]] (Quintard Avenue/McClellan Boulevard)
* [[File:Alabama 202.svg|21px]] [[State Route 202 (Alabama)|State Route 202]]
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The Anniston Western Bypass runs from [[Interstate 20]] in [[Oxford, Alabama|Oxford]] (the Coldwater exit) and runs north into the present [[Alabama State Route 202|State Route 202]]. It is five lanes wide, handling [[Anniston Army Depot]] traffic. Future plans will extend it on the present County Road 109 by widening it to connect with [[U.S. Route 431|US 431]]. [[Alabama State Route 202|State Route 202]] follows this route from CR 109 (Bynum-Leatherwood Road) southward.

The [[Anniston Eastern Bypass]] was a stalled project of the [[Alabama Department of Transportation]] to build a four-lane highway in Calhoun County until revived by the [[American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009|2009 federal stimulus package]].<ref>{{cite news| url=http://blog.al.com/spotnews/2009/02/anniston_bypass_huntsville_ove.html| title=Anniston bypass, Huntsville overpass are big winners if Obama OKs stimulus plan| last=Goodman| first=Sherri C.| date=February 13, 2009| work=[[The Birmingham News]]| access-date=April 16, 2014}}</ref> It was the largest influx of federal money into the local economy since Fort McClellan closed. More than $21 million was earmarked for this project in 2005. This funding was spent acquiring rights of way and grading a section of the proposed bypass from Oxford to the community of Golden Springs. As of April 2009, the section was a graded, but undriveable, clay dirt road bed. The Eastern Bypass was revived by the 2009 Federal Stimulus Package and was opened to traffic into McClellan on the northwest end in January 2011. As of December 2015, the route is now open to traffic and carries US-431 from the Saks community southward.

[[Amtrak]] serves [[Anniston station|Anniston]] with its [[Crescent (train)|Crescent]] service, operating to and from [[New Orleans Union Passenger Terminal|New Orleans]] and [[Pennsylvania Station (New York City)|New York]].<ref>{{cite web |title=Crescent Train New York, Atlanta, New Orleans|url=https://www.amtrak.com/crescent-train |website=Amtrak |quote=Select map, then Alabama}}</ref> Southbound trains depart at 10:30am, and northbound trains depart at 6:59pm (central time).<ref>{{cite web |title=Crescent |url=https://www.ncbytrain.org/schedules/Pages/crescent.aspx |website=North Carolina Department of Transportation}}</ref>

The [[Areawide Community Transportation System]] (ACTS) provides fixed-route bus and paratransit services within Anniston and Oxford. The service operates Monday through Friday from 6:00 AM to 6:00 PM and on Saturdays from 10:00 AM to 5:00 PM. There is no service on Sundays.

===Anniston Army Depot===
Anniston is home to the [[Anniston Army Depot]] which is used for the maintenance of most Army tracked vehicles. The depot also housed a major chemical weapons storage facility, the [[Anniston Chemical Activity]], and a program to destroy those weapons, the [[Anniston Chemical Agent Disposal Facility]]. In 2003, the Anniston Army Depot began the process of destroying the [[chemical weapon]]s it had stored at the depot and at Fort McClellan. An incinerator was built to destroy the stockpile of [[Sarin]], [[VX (nerve agent)|VX]] nerve agent, and [[Sulfur mustard|mustard]] blister agent stored at the depot. Destruction of the weapons was completed in 2011.<ref name=lazycitationrequired/> The incinerator and related operations were officially closed in May 2013, and the incinerator was disassembled and removed from the depot at the end of 2013.<ref name=lazycitationrequired>{{cite web |url=http://blog.al.com/breaking/2013/05/one_year_after_last_chemical_w.html |title=One year after last chemical weapon destroyed, incinerator at Anniston Army Depot closed |last1=Gore |first1=Leada |date=May 8, 2013 |website=AL.com |publisher=Alabama Media Group |access-date=January 12, 2015}}</ref>

===Health care===
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* [[Sarrell Dental & Eye Centers]]<!--- start this section with first article --->