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Nine Mile Widening Begins Soon From Beulah To Hwy 29; Public Info Meeting Set
August 29, 2016
The Florida Department of Transportation will hold a public information meeting for work beginning on Nine Mile Road between Beulah Road and Highway 29 in Escambia County. The meeting will be held Thursday, September 8 at Plainview Baptist Church, 1101 West Nine Mile Road, from 5:30-6:30 p.m.
“We’ve been working for 20 years to fix the traffic and gridlock in the Beulah community, as well as bring good-paying jobs and growth, and these improvements will ensure our success,” District 1 Commissioner Wilson Robertson said. “The core growth and the traffic going to Navy Federal and the new OLF-8 Park is going to be well accommodated by widening Nine Mile Road to four lanes.”
The $46 million project includes widening Nine Mile Road between Beulah Road and U.S. 29 from two to four travel lanes. Additional improvements include constructing a new bridge over Eleven Mile Creek, new sidewalks and stormwater retention ponds, signalization improvements and drainage enhancements. FDOT representatives will be available to provide information about planned construction work and potential impacts.
Work is scheduled to begin in September and will require nighttime lane closures and speed limit reductions on Nine Mile Road. Weather permitting, the entire corridor is slated for completion in early 2019.
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15 Responses to “Nine Mile Widening Begins Soon From Beulah To Hwy 29; Public Info Meeting Set”
Both this stretch of Nine Mile and Pine Forest are state roads.
All the county can do is beg and wait on the state to do the improvements.
Why can’t we get a ECAT stop in Beulah? We see the bus drive right down to the Pin air place can someone please answer this I’ve asked everyone. It would be nice to have that option to go into town instead of the little stores out here all of the time.
“We’ve been working for 20 years to fix the traffic and gridlock in the Beulah community”
Really? There haven’t been any fixes to the traffic and gridlock in the area, but there has been plenty of growth to outgrow the infrastructure. Allowing one of the largest employers in the area, along with one of the largest subdivisions to be placed along a 2 lane road doesn’t make much sense.
Commissioner Robertson needs to drive down 9 mile between 6:30 and 8am and then again between 3:30 and 6pm so he can see that there have been no fixes to the traffic and gridlock. Then maybe he can talk to the people who have been rear ended each and every week. 9 Mile Rd should have been widened long before all of the growth was allowed.
well here we go again the beloved leaders have decided they will throw the people a bone they have allowed that area to expand with no thought to the traffic there was no mention of pine forest from I 10 to 9 mile to me this should be a prioriry as one person posted maybe it is time for new leadership remember the gas tax for E C AT the increase in fire tax some of these people have been in office way to long
I smell another Avalon Blvd coming on,it will take at least 5 yrs
Why in the world would they stop the 4 lane at Beulah road and not continue the last 2 miles to the mobile hey junction (where by the way it is already 4 laned for a few yards) with the new subdivisions and the school being put less than a mile past Beulah Rd this is just plain dumb. Get the job done right the first time so you don’t have to keep going back over and over.
I am a twenty year Beulah resident and as much as I am not looking forward to the construction, I am more than ready for it to begin. It feels like the plans are already way behind schedule and capacity. Personally, I think they really ought to be widening it to six lanes rather than four. The expected growth to this area is already going to overwhelm a four-lane road.
save the “big Oak” tree on nine mile road………………….
Several years ago, there was a meeting for the new interstate exchange – purposed for coming off of Isaac Lane. Not sure when construction is slated for that one but seems to me, if we had that exit in place, that would help with “some” of the traffic on 9 mile. It still needs to be widened but given the new exit before widening would help. Also, why stop just the other side of Beulah Road (as shown in the drawing)? I thought the four lane’s were to extend out to where Mobile Hwy. and 9 Mile meet.
What upsets me the most is, our County allows new businesses, new residential neighborhoods, new schools etc. to be built without having our infrastructure in place. Don’t issue permits for new construction until our roads are in place people. Oh that’s right, we want your tax money and don’t care if you drive or sit in traffic everyday.
What that being said, PLEASE, go vote tomorrow!! Maybe we need to get some of the existing member’s out of office.
How does this fit into the new access being constructed through the Barrineau Park area?
If both were in place, I think it would help traffic quite a bit since the cars would have some alternate routes to make use of.
Apparently, driver sentiment is low about the delays of this project. The announcements are perceived more like: “We have begun to start the initial planning for the evaluation of the feasibility study regarding the commencement of the road widening project.”
Maybe the new I-10 exit ramp at Beulah Road should go in first?
I only hope that someone has the foresight and intelligence to widen the very short but important section of Pine Forest Road between I-10 and Nine Mile Road where there is an obvious bottleneck!!! Surely they won’t forget this problem!
As everyone but DOT knows how bad it is and how many rear end collisions there are going north on PFR with everyone trying to merge at the Detroit Blvd intersection AND others trying to access Pine Forest Rd from Detroit, with some trying to pull out of Detroit and cross 4 lanes to get to the “on-ramp” to go west on I-10. Keeping fingers crossed, but have seen no mention of addressing this problem.
Two elder men were at one of these meeting and were Livid when original plans were to just widen from Pine Forest to past the Navy federal plant. they sold their property to the State in the 50’s to four line nine mile at Cove. ALMOST 60 year in the planning stages? In 2000 I was told Pine Forest / Nine mile had 22000 cars a day on a two lane hwy. They (BCC) were wanting to expedite the west part because of traffic future increase. I asked them how do you think they are going to get past that east portion, everyone cant come the interstate. Nine mile is already a parking lot at times from Lowes to Pine forest. WE WLIL SEE WHERE THEY START???
“the entire corridor is slated for completion in early 2019″
Oh come on now who do they think they are kidding?
Two an 1/2 years is waaaaaaaay too optimistic.
I most likely will not be able to attend the meeting; however, I do have a few things to say. We have been told for the twenty years we have lived in this area that 9 Mile Road was scheduled to be widened, only to be let down time after time.
Escambia County zoning has okayed new neighborhoods off 97, 297, and west 9 Mile Road, enlarged Navy Federal, added banks and shopping centers, and most recently apartment complexes on Pine Forest Road and now 9 Mile Road. Why in the world would you not also plan ahead for traffic issues?
This is just a very small instance as to why “the people” are FED UP with government. A little power does not make one smart!