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Parts Of Highway 99, Barrineau Park Road To Be Widened, Paved
July 28, 2014
Escambia County has entered into agreements with the Florida Department of Transportation to construct paved shoulders and resurface portions of Barrineau Park Road and Highway 99.
Due to the traffic crash rate on the two stretches of highway, both qualify for state funding through the FDOT Highway Safety Program. The FDOT has already completed the project design to install 2-foot wide pave shoulders on both sides of the roadways, resurface the travel lanes and make minor safety upgrades.
Construction on both projects will be administered by Escambia County, with FDOT reimbursing the county as costs are incurred.
The paved shoulders and other improvements will be made along Highway 99 from Barrineau Park Road to Highway 97A near Enon at a cost of up to $3.37 million; and along Barrineau Park Road from Jacks Branch Road to Highway 99 at a cost up to $1.62 million.
The next step in the project is to let contracts. There’s has been no start date for the work announced.
Maps show the areas to be improved on Highway 99 (left map) and Highway 196 (below). Click the maps to enlarge. NorthEscambia.com graphics.
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2 Responses to “Parts Of Highway 99, Barrineau Park Road To Be Widened, Paved”
It’s about time. The last time these stretches of road received any attention from the county was in the early 1980s. Speed isn’t the biggest safety issue here, it’s the condition and width of the roadway. Rural highways in Texas have speed limits of 75 mph, after all, and that state’s traffic fatality rates are declining.
There will always be crashes on these roads because people think speed limit is 85mphs. I get passed at 55 mphs. and left like I am standing still! Log and chip trucks are worse, because they take both sides and they are going way over 55 mphs. If people would slow down a little it would be great. or some leo’s out there would be even better, maybe the under 16 yrs. would stop racing their dirt bikes on road and playing chicken with cars out here!!!!!!!!!!!!
me venting