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Highway 29 Now Open After Day Long Closure
June 10, 2013
North and south bound lanes of Highway 29 near East Kingsfield Road are now open in Cantonment, according to the Florida Highway Patrol. The road was closed for almost nine hours Monday due to flooding. Water was crossing the highway at Pensacola Salvage.
Pictured top: This reader photo by Jamie Boutwell shows water crossing Highway 29 before the roadway was closed. Pictured below: Reader photo by Brandi Ratcliff shows Highway 29 closed at Kingsfield. Submitted photos for NorthEscambia.com, click to enlarge.
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13 Responses to “Highway 29 Now Open After Day Long Closure”
People, get a map of your county.
The roads are, within reason, a spider web. Even in a hurricane evacuation, all the main roads are gridlocked, and the seldom used roads are your avenue of escape. Motorists use the main roads as a force of habit.
Just don’t get in front of me
I was southbound on 95 A at the light by CVS and could not turn left onto Kingsfield, due to all the traffic going northbound on 95 A. Guess they didn’t feel the need for a turn arrow. Law enforcement should be there with that much traffic being detoured from Hwy 29.
Still closed at 3:30
Came through about 3 o’clock and road was still closed. Traffic is backed up both ways.
It just amazes me that a major North/South artery closes down in the exact same place every time there is a heavy rain.
Is there nothing that can be engineered that might allow a vehicle to cross this area? If only there was something that could bridge that low-lying area.
at 2:30 pm the road was still closed.
I just came South and it was closed at 12:45 and it looks as if it will be for a while. Traffic was backed in both directions.
It was open when we came through at 0915 this morning, but the water was deep and rising. We detoured down Kingsfield to New Chemstrand. I noticed it was still flooded and closed when we came back through about 30 min ago.
Crossing deep water without a snorkel is a good way to suck water into a combustion chamber, which will often result in a destroyed piston.
@Stuck. Another option for you would be to go east on Kingsfield, turn left on Chemstrand, and then turn left on Old Chemstrand. That will put you back on Hwy 29 by the Winn Dixie in Gonzalez.
I haven’t been that way today, but you also might be able to just turn on Old Palafox at Kingsfield and bypass the closure. However, Old Palafox might be closed too right next to Pensacola Salvage.
In response to “stuck”, I live in Molino too and came from PSC earlier when they just closed the road off. Just take a left on Kingsfield and go do by the road prison to muscogee and you can detour around it.
Where can we find out about the road closures? I’m at Pensacola State College and I’m wondering how I’m going to get home. I live in Molino
>>>is hwy 29 still closed? its now 11:20
Yes, it is still closed according to FHP.
is hwy 29 still closed? its now 11:20