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Escambia’s Legislative Funding Wish List Includes Muscogee Road, Beulah Interchange, Pine Forest Road
November 21, 2018
The Escambia County Commission has prioritized their requests to be submitted to the Florida Legislature for possible funding.
The commission prioritized four requests, in no particular order:
- Muscogee Road Widening and Drainage Project
- Beulah / I‐10 Interchange / US 29 Connector Project
- Pine Forest Road 4‐Laning (I‐10 to Nine Mile Road)
- West Cervantes Street / Mobile Highway Corridor Safety Improvements
Four additional requests will also be submitted:
- Estuary Program – Pensacola/Perdido, Choctawhatchee, and St. Andrew’s
- Bob Sikes Fishing Pier Rehabilitation & Pensacola Beach Blvd. Access Road Project
- Klondike Road / Wilde Lake Blvd. Widening Project
- Funding through Transportation Planning Organization (TPO) towards Pedestrian/Bicycle Projects
Each year, the Legislature requests that local agencies submit House and Senate appropriation requests for their consideration. They are typically looking for three requests from each local agency. The Legislature prefers to fund construction projects, although, in the past, design projects have also been funded.
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16 Responses to “Escambia’s Legislative Funding Wish List Includes Muscogee Road, Beulah Interchange, Pine Forest Road”
…I agree with most of these folks on Jack’s Branch..I grew up in Gonzalez before US 29 was 4 lane..and 6- lane US 29 to nine and a half rd. a waste of money..most practical idea would be to upgrade US 29 into an expressway ( I-110 ) in the same route as US 29 now runs to the state line or even all the way to I-65..I lived in NYC for 2 years…all concrete and asphalt..US 29 is already here..use that foot print..yes..it would be expensive..but you would not destroy thousands of acres of Escambia county..
@JacksBranch—Your fighting a losing battle. Prime example is the beauty and solitude of Wallace Lake Road that everybody wants. Till all of a sudden you look around and it’s packed. My family has been in Barrineau Park almost 100 years and I barely know anyone there anymore. The new ones I meet are almost always not from around here. It saddens me. Once that highway is put in, it will essentially move Ensley to North Cantonment/Molino. Gone will be the small town feel. Heck, it’s almost gone now. Yuppies come here for reasons why we stay, then wanna start changing things.
We residents do not want the expressway in our backyards either.. find an area that is not lined with farms of cattle, etc.. plus I do not want to look out my back window and see the friggin’ expressway… I love having my neighbors cattle in my vision or even the beautiful moon rises that happen out here.. we moved to the country to raise cattle, chickens, etc.. and now if that expressway goes through, my neighbors and I will lose all of that along with the nice quietness that is out here.. find another place to put that expressway that doesnt impede on families homes
NONE of your comments compare to what the “Beulah Beltway” is going to do to the North Cantonment/Molino areas. Your talking traffic but that piece of (infrastructure) is going to change a way of life for many. Some will lose the property where they have their entire lives invested in. It’s literally insane that yuppies, yankees, and redneck wannabes want to move out here because of the way of life then spite it by wanting Dollar Store, Walmart, or even a Starbucks. Those I speak of spend most of their time in town anyway because they can’t or don’t want this way of life. What a joke.
A lot of county roads get lots of traffic coming north onto Muscogee rd just about every day because Hwy 29 is blocked by trains crossing into Champion…..and sometimes more than once daily. I have seen the traffic backed up south of Muscogee Rd halfway to Chemstrand……especially at rush hour time…..I have seen this for many many years and not once have I seen our county wanting to put an overpass to avoid this.
How bout looking at some of the roads up here in the north end of the county. Schagg road has needed to be on the list for a long time. Both sides. Maybe we should stop paying our taxes till they do what we elected them to do.
what about roads that the county said does not qualify for any work from the county , but the people have to pay full property taxes and local options tax on them. dist 5 and some on the west side of Pensacola.. the leaders made the rules ,so they can change them….. look for the small grey sign on the street sign, you will see what they are doing to the TAX payer on that road…
In other areas of the country , when the traffic volume reaches a certain threshold there is a moratorium on building permits in that sector until the road infrastructure expands to match the volume. We have never done that here & I don’t think we ever will. Home builders & developers have historically had a lot of influence on the votes of our County Commission . I saw it happen over the years in my own neighborhood of Klondike ( Klondike Rd. , 8 Mile Creek Rd , Mobile Hwy , Wilde Lake Blvd. ). The more subdivisions built in Beulah , the more shortcutters thru Klondike to get to the interstate. Human nature to go the shortest route but ruins other people’s quality of life.
I think it’s great the county has named these road projects in an attempt to improve the traffic situation. Sadly, I don’t have much optimism or confidence that these projects will actually improve anything unless they also improve the timing of the traffic signals. Look at what a parking lot Airport Blvd. has become after widening and other improvements thanks to non-synchronized traffic lights and lights that hold for crossing traffic well past when the last car has gone. Same with Highway 29 from Cantonment south-bound. Same with 9 Mile between University and Highway 29. Drive a quarter mile. Stop. Drive another quarter mile. Stop. On and on. I realize that during heavy traffic in the morning and evening that traffic will back up due to volume, but the rest of the time there’s no need for it. All it does is create packs of impatient cars racing from light to light instead of letting the traffic spread out normally. It’s a disgrace how much time and gasoline are wasted in our area not due to traffic, but due to poorly managed traffic lights.
High traffic roads from Perdido Key, Hwy-98 and Sorrento Roads on the west side of our county continue to be either ignored or pushed off the planning board agenda.
NorthEscambia does an amazing, if tough, job of reporting accidents in the north end of our county. It would be of great interest to see the accurate and timely reporting of accidents, injuries, deaths along those 2-lane narrow, unlit poorly marked sidelines and lane dividers (292 from Alabama line to Navy Blvd / Sorrento Road / Hwy-98 from Alabama to Blue Angel).
Now,now, now is the time for an interstate interchange at 9 mile and I 10.
am I mistaken, but don’t we have this already? or do you mean Beulah and I-10?
No way a fishing pier should be included before any road in Escambia County. That,s a nice to have NOT a need. Blue Angle, N or 98 is an embarrassment that we will never see fixed in our life time.
With all due respect to engineers and other Florida Department of Transportation, you do not have ability to look into the distance future. You do however have many facts at your disposal. With those facts drive around and get the sense of develop, economic growth, where schools are being built etc. Forward thinkers with all the info would have realized that 3 lanes between 9 mile and the interstate was not enough and a waste of taxpayer’s money.That was long before they built the road. (mile road had that extreme right-a-way at least 45 years ago. They say now is the time. Same situation with parts of Blue Angel. You have about 25 years togo based on that formula.
Now,now, now is the time for an interstate interchange at 9 mile and I 10. The powers to be know it. The DOT know it, And more importantly the average person knows it. Proactive leaders get er done!
This county has had and continues to have no vision for future traffic issues. You just cannot allow sub division after sub division to be built without even thinking about the infrastructure needed to support them. Builders are getting a free ride and we suffer for that short sightedness. Beulah road is an excellent example of this. Even the 4 laning of 9 mile will be obsolete by the time it’s opened. I do realize that it is a state project. I know it would be unpopular, but impact fees on new construction is needed for these infrastructure problems.
I guess when they made Pine Forest two lanes going south, they did not count on those folks going northbound to get home. Why they did not put in two lanes going north from Detroit blvd to nine mile road has always puzzled me,
Please, please do Pine Forest Road first. It should not take a resident 20 minutes to get from 9 1/2 mile road to the interstate at 7:20 am on any given weekday. Past county management went full force in approving new neighborhoods in southwest Cantonment, but apparently did not consider the additional traffic.