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Crews To Replace Highway 29 Railroad Crossing In Cantonment This Weekend
September 25, 2019
Crews will replace the Highway 29 railroad crossing at International Paper in Cantonment this weekend, and that will lead to traffic delays.
North and southbound Highway traffic will be restricted to one lane in each direction south of Muscogee Road in Cantonment from 8 p.m. Friday, Sept. 27 to 6 a.m. Monday, Sept. 30 as crews replace the CSX railroad crossing. During the crossing work, crews will stop traffic in two intervals for approximately 15 minutes to move the new rails into place.
All activities are weather dependent and may be delayed or rescheduled in the event of inclement weather, according to the Florida Department of Transportation.
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12 Responses to “Crews To Replace Highway 29 Railroad Crossing In Cantonment This Weekend”
To Susan:your idea is the best yet!!! People use your brain!!! THINK!!!!!!!!PLAN!!!!!!!!
To ekg: that’s too simple for these seasoned complainers!!!!!!!:-)!!!!!!!!!! I have lived here for 71 years and have never felt this crossing to be a bother for the most part….maybe it’s because my Daddy worked for the railroad and I grew up understanding it…
Just change your route, there’s a problem on Airport with the train, so I just changed my route.
You are correct – it is International Paper and I fail to recognize that since I’ve worked in the area for years and continuously call it Champion. My old job was at Chemstrand, then Monsanto. Later they changed to Solutia, now Ascend.
My wife and I had to move from the area North of Cantonment. It was too risky taking a chance with our life in case of an emergency. We are situated well West of there now. We have had groceries in the car, when ice cream melted and milk to spoil because of the train blocking the road. It was not a pleasant experience cleaning that up. Now we take an ice chest when shopping for groceries in Cantonment.
The train blocking the road has become a serious and stressful situation for all those that need to travel in that area on a daily basis.
It may never be resolved in my lifetime.
The mill does not own the railyard. It is where the train companies pick up and drop off strings of freight cars for inbound and outbound shipping. Yes the railyard has been there for many decades and back then that area was rural and hwy 29 had little traffic. My suggestion is not for an overpass, but for the railroad company to relocate its yard to the east side of highway 29.
Yeah they should definitely build an overpass at the railroad crossing there because I have personally watched ambulances needing to get across and having to wait 10-15 minutes and if one of my children were on the other side needing that ambulance I’d be more than a lil bit mad. I’ve lived here 41 years they could do better if enough people stood together. It’s not 1965 with 30 to 50 cars going down the road all day…its 2019 with a few thousand cars going down 29 every day time to get with the program we got all this money to spend on the roads right there on Muskogee plus hwy 90 and all down hwy 29 so why can’t roads inc build an over pass there?
Sounds a lot like those people that complain when they buy a house near an existing airport and then want to complain about the noise from the airplanes. I would be willing to bet that plant and those trains were there before most of you. Do your research when buying a house. It’s not the plants fault. Why should they spend more money for your convenience?
Who coordinates these activities?
Late Monday night would make much more sense as opposed to high density traffic hours.
I really don’t think we need any additional traffic on Hwy 29. It would take lots of trucks to transport what the trains move. By the way it is International Paper.
Make a overpass for the train
Better yet, replace the train. Have trucks with loaded containers to take the shipments away from the plant to an area North of Molino and load onto the train. Yeah it will cost more money, but people are sick of waiting on trains in that area. No body gives a crap about how the public feels with this situation. Commissioner Barry has tried but nothing has changed. Champion only cares about their pocketbook.
By the way, the lawn needs mowing on the Old Golf Course that belongs to Champion. It’s beginning to look very run-down.
Just a suggestion for those that are not acquainted with our terrible train blockages… turning right onto Muscogee Rd while heading south….going to Louis St.(297A) on the left….turn south….go down to Kingsfield Rd….turn left….and you will come out on Hwy29…….coming north, just reverse it…