Highway 97 Resurfacing Project Is Now Entering Early Design Phase

March 17, 2008

The scheduled resurfacing project of Highway 97 in North Escambia has entered the design phase that should see the first new asphalt on the highway by the end of 2009.

The $1.78 million survey and design phase of the project is ongoing, said Tommie Speights, Public Information Director for District 3 of the Florida Department of Transportation. The survey work and preliminary engineering is being conducted by Volkert and Associates of Mobile. The survey is mostly complete, and the project is now entering the design phase.

“The project is scheduled to let for contract in late August 2009,” Tommie Speights, Public Information Director for District 3 of the Florida Department of Transportation, told NorthEscambia.com. “It would then take three to four months to begin actual resurfacing, so work would begin in about December of 2009.”

Budget figures show that the resurfacing project is expected to cost $17,105,652 and be completed in 2010. The entire roadway is be repaved from Country Road 95 in Molino across Highway 29 to the Alabama state line, a distance of about 23 miles. No major drainage changes are expected to the route’s 55 cross drains under the highway, with the exception of some possible changes near the intersection of Highway 97 and Crabtree Church Road.

Existing 12 foot wide travel lanes and five foot paved shoulders will be milled and resurfaced. This project does not include the four-laning of Highway 97. A four lane highway is not in any of the state’s current plans for Highway 97.

Pictured above: Survey crews work recently on Highway 97 near County Road 99 in north Escambia County. NorthEscambia.com photo, click to enlarge.

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