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Highway 29, Nine Mile Intersection Closures And Detours All Week
March 5, 2018
Drivers traveling Highway 29 and Nine Mile Road will encounter traffic pattern changes from 8 p.m. to 6 a.m. Monday, March 5 through Saturday, March 10 as follows:
- Nine Mile Road at the Highway 29 overpass: Travel lanes will be reduced to one lane for each direction. Alternating traffic shifts will direct all traffic onto the westbound or eastbound lanes throughout the night as crews begin construction of the new center bridge deck.
- Highway 29 between I-10 and 9 1/2 Mile Road: Drivers may experience alternating lane closures as crews prepare for future traffic shifts.
- Highway 29 at Nine Mile Road overpass: Monday and Tuesday, March 5 and 6, north and southbound Highway 29 will be reduced to one lane each and detoured onto the Nine Mile Road off- and on-ramps as crews place the beams for the center portion of the new bridge deck.
Pictured top: Work last week in the median of Highway 29 at Nine Mile Road. NorthEcambia.com photo. Pictured below: A FDOT detour map for the intersection.
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7 Responses to “Highway 29, Nine Mile Intersection Closures And Detours All Week”
Always a joy to read the funny paper comments here.
@Fred – You Are 100% Correct That Overpass Has Been Going On For At Lease 2 Years – You See A Worker Pick Up A Load Of Dirt From The North Pile Drop It On The South Side Then Next Week Pick Up A Load From South And Drop It On North Just Back And Forth And You Will See 20 Trucks From Road Inc But A Couple People Working And ESC.COM Let It Go On
I agree with the comments here on poor road planning. With construction happening at Nine Mile Road and I-10, and at Highway 29 and I-10, traffic has become a nightmare for those of us who live North of I-10 and work South of it. I-10 is like a Great Wall of China that restricts traffic flow. In Escambia County there are only 8 gateways through the great wall wall over a 17 mile span. All of those gateways have become a nightmare during morning and evening rush hour because of all the people being funneled through the choke points as they try to get North or South of I-10. Think about where the worst traffic is: Davis Highway, Highway 29, Pine Forest Road. All of those are places where people must go to get to the other side of I-10. A lack of planning has led to this problem, and now that they are trying to increase traffic flow on existing roads, they are making the problem much, much worse. They need to to hurry those projects as fast as they can, then open some new gates through the great wall to accommodate future traffic.
How much longer must we endure these never ending projects, with idle equipment, only 2 people out of 20 actually moving like they’re working, and just plain sloth? This has become SOP for Anderson Columbia and Roads Inc. I’d say the hottest project going is the 9 Mile Road project out near Navy Federal, but nothing happens on Saturday – why is that? Meanwhile, private projects move along expeditiously, just look at the Beulah School where Morette is doing the work – it’s actually moving along at a reasonable pace. Our commissioners should be on these contractors constantly, every time the shovels stop digging, asking why things aren’t happening.
What a great job being done to help us all with our commute around the county! I’m excited to see real improvements that will (hopefully) reduce the bottlenecks and bumper-to-bumper traffic in spots, especially this intersection/area.
Now, if we could only do something to educate drivers so they don’t tear it all up with their poor driving habits. . .
I’m all for improvements however there are entirely to many improvements going on at one time.
Get it done! – road infrastructure woes due to pp planning and putting things off so john q. public gets it broke off with a “hey lets do it all at once” too late to act like you got any smarts…