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Bratt Road Bridge Closed Almost Nine Months With No Work
September 2, 2018
The Bratt Road Bridge over Canoe Creek has been closed for nearly nine months, and it will be several more weeks before work begins on a replacement bridge.
The current wooden-support bridge was constructed in 1956 and was closed by FDOT December 6 after it failed an inspection.
The Florida Department of Transportation is set to award a contract to replace the bridge on September 26. Once construction begins, it will take up 90-120 days to install a temporary bridge and open it to traffic.
Once the temporary bridge is opened, construction will begin on a new permanent concrete bridge.
The bridge averaged 425 vehicles per day prior to closure.
NorthEscambia.com photos, click to enlarge.
Comments
7 Responses to “Bratt Road Bridge Closed Almost Nine Months With No Work”
A pathetic example of Gov’t squabbling. While the State and the County point fingers at each other, NOTHING gets done, and the Taxpaying citizen pays the price. At the Next election, ALL sitting politicians need to GO! IF we are going to be represented in Gov’t, let it be by someone with the citizen’ best interest in mind, NOT someone unwilling to actually DO the job. BUILD this Bridge, and, get it done NOW!
We get totally ignored in the panhandle. All the money goes to central and south Florida.
So in the time they have stopped all traffic and waited to consider maybe building a temporary bridge, they could probably have put in the replacement.
David for better ways
and to top it off you have the D2 commissioner wanting to lose the state road designation and put it on the county so he can plant palm trees and junk with our dollars and on a barrier island no less. What a tool.
No to that!
Get the dollars up here..all the way to the line.
I to am concerned with the quality of some of the work done on our local bridges. For instance the newly done bridge on Hwy 99 (Pine Barren Creek) short of Oak Grove Church has some very noticeable turns right before you cross it and right after it. The newly done bridge looks very demanding before crossing it compared to before.
I hear you, Citizen, but bear in mind that 9 Mile Rd has been barreled off for how long with no progress? It’s just the FUBAR way they do things.
found this old article from 2011. How are these prioritized and funded?
Seem odd they wait for failed inspections then close them for over nine months, not like it was a surprise.
http://www.northescambia.com/2011/09/in-depth-most-north-escambia-bridges-are-wooden-50-need-replacing