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Public Meeting Tonight On Nine Mile Widening From Beulah To Hwy 29
September 8, 2016
The Florida Department of Transportation will hold a public information meeting this evening work beginning on Nine Mile Road between Beulah Road and Highway 29 in Escambia County. The meeting will be held 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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5 Responses to “Public Meeting Tonight On Nine Mile Widening From Beulah To Hwy 29”
How about if Navy Federal adjusted shift times to not coincide with everyone else? How about shuttles from downtown or one of our many empty shopping centers? Possibly the Old Food World at Pine Forest/I-10. Park and ride.
FDOT needs to hurry up and get that traffic light at the intersection of Beulah Road and Mobile Hwy! Traffic is horrific there in the mornings and evenings.
If you think reduced speed limits and a projected completion date of sometime in 2019 is fast, then you got it…lol…
20 years? I’ve lived in north Beulah for 18 years and didn’t see large traffic problems until Navy Federal arrived, enticed the 4-H kids to sell, and started moving 8000 Virginia people down here. There were NO traffic jams on 9-Mile Rd until recently, so yes, now that we have so many more people then the road certainly needs to be made larger. I hope it will have a lane in the middle for emergency vehicles. Also they were supposed to connect Beulah Rd to I-10. If they connect a different road closer to NF, then it will prove that money talks.
LET’S JUST HOPE THIS IS A FAST PROJECT! AND WHY HAVE A MEETING.. IT IS AN OBVIOUS NEED FOR THE COMMUNITY AND THE SANITY OF DRIVERS HAVING TO SIT IN BUMPER TO BUMPER TRAFFIC EVERYDAY GOING HOME! JUST DO IT ALREADY!