Five Year Plan Includes Millions In North Escambia Road, Bridge Projects

July 19, 2012

A five-year transportation improvement plan includes several new bridge and shoulder widening projects in the North Escambia area.

A recently released Florida-Alabama Transportation Planning Organization  report identifies the projects to be completed, project phasing, estimated costs and funding sources. Inclusion in the report does not guarantee that a project will be funded.

North Escambia area projects included in the five-year plan include:

BRIDGES

  • County Road 97A, replace bridge over Boggy Creek, 2014/15, $5.2 million.
  • Brickyard Road, replace bridge over unnamed branch, 2013/14, $1.98 million.
  • Fannie Road, replace bridge, 2013/14, $3 million.
  • County Road 97A, replace bridge over west fork of Boggy Creek, 2012/13, $2.3 million.
  • South Pineville Road, replace bridge over Brushy Breek, 2013/14, $2.5 million.
  • Highway 97, replace bridge over Little Pine Barren Creek,  2014/15, $3.5 million
  • Beck’s Lake Road, replace bridge over unnamed branch, 2014/15, $2.1 million
  • County Road 99, replace bridge over Pine Barren Creek, 2016/17, $6 million
  • Dortch Road, replace bridge over Beaver Dam Creek, 2016/17, $2 million
  • County Road 99A, replace bridge over Boggy Creek, 2016/17, $3.3 million
  • Sandy Hollow Road, replace bridge over Sandy Hollow Creek, 2016/17, $3 million

ROADWAYS

  • Highway 29, right of way for future capacity from I-10 to 9 Mile, 2016/17, $66.4 million
  • Crabbtree Church Road, pave shoulders, 2014/15, $1.4 million
  • South County Road 99, safety study from Barrineau Park Rd to Hwy 97, 2014/15, $302,500
  • South County Road 99, pave shoulders from Barrineau Park Rd to Hwy 97, 2014/15, $5 million
  • Jacks Branch Road, pave shoulders from Muscogee to Barrineau Park, 2013/14, $2.6 million

The Florida-Alabama TPO also has a local government “wish list” of project requests during the five year period that includes paved shoulders on County Road 4 from Highway 97 to the Century town limits, a multi-use trail along six miles of Highway 29 in Molino, and paved shoulders on portions of the following: North Highway 99, Arthur Brown Road, Highway 4A, Molino Road, Highway 164, Quintette Road, Barrineau Park Road, Highway 4A, Highway 97A, Pine Barren Road and Cox Road.

The Florida-Alabama Transportation Planning Organization was created by the governors in Alabama and Florida to oversee the transportation planning process in the Florida-Alabama TPO Planning Area.

Pictured top: The Little Pine Barren Creek Bridge on Highway 97 is tentatively set for replacement in fiscal year 2014-2015. Pictured inset: The bridge was constructed in 1941. NorthEscambia.com file photos, click to enlarge.

Comments

8 Responses to “Five Year Plan Includes Millions In North Escambia Road, Bridge Projects”

  1. Resident on July 22nd, 2012 1:40 am

    What would be a great idea would be to pave Occie Phillips Rd instead of continuing to let it damage school buses and personal vehicles, as well as wasting money hauling in dirt that will only get washed away. But no, let’s just fix already-paved roads that are less damaging.

  2. Troubled on July 21st, 2012 9:48 am

    Dont spend the money if there not going to do it wright.Reference HWY 297A at 11 mile creek bridge. Water is being allowed to run directly in the creek. No setteling ponds to allow sediments to catch during heavy rains. Grass in Giant dead rolls installed for 2 weeks and no growth but weeds not replaced. Water pounding in new ditches with no fall for runoff. Water trapped at 297a and Heather Drive causing pounding in heavy rains out into highway. East side of 11 mile creek nothing to stop children from being sucked into culvert that runs 1000 feet +- directly into creek. just look at improvements on 297A from Kingsfield to Cantonment done last year has some of the same issues especially dead grass installed and now only weeds. Again.
    Don’t waste our money if it’s not going to be done wright.

  3. Tuf on July 19th, 2012 9:53 pm

    One way to help fund replacement of our local bridges is to purchase your gasoline in Escambia County, Florida, not Alabama. Purchasing fuel in neighboring counties and states supports their roads, not ours.

  4. No Excuses on July 19th, 2012 7:29 pm

    I’m with Tuf. There are things that need to be repaired and maintained, regardless of the finances of the county and state. That’s just how it is. I imagine your tax dollars will pay for these repairs and maintenance projects, as they should. You do use the roads and bridges, do you not? That is one of the things that tax dollars are collected for in the first place.

  5. Tuf on July 19th, 2012 6:11 pm

    His name is spelled “Bernanke”. Benjamin Shalom Bernanke, Chairman of the United States Federal Reserve. He is 58, born in Georgia, and has degrees from Harvard and MIT. He is a Republican, nominated and appointed to the Reserve by President George W. Bush, and reappointed by President Obama. He belongs to the Jewish faith.

    Now that spelling has been corrected and a bio established, what does Ben Bernanke have to do with this article about local county-owned bridges in Escambia County, Florida?

    Be realistic, or say nothing. Help the community by providing thought out, intelligent conversation, not nonsense.

  6. gm on July 19th, 2012 5:56 pm

    where is the money gonna come from dont they know we are broke our govt. is lost all control of their senses spending wont solve our problems they must pay the debt we already owe to get this country straight

  7. Sel on July 19th, 2012 9:22 am

    So what happened to the Olive Road widening project?? It was supposed to be started in 2011!

  8. 429SCJ on July 19th, 2012 6:06 am

    It will be interesting to see how all this will be funded.

    It would save transportatioin cost if Mr Burnanke could license each state with a color printer to generate US currency. When hyperinflation hits no one will notice anyway.

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