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Take A Look At The Planned I-10 At Beulah Road Interchange
October 23, 2019
The Florida Department of Transportation presented the details in on the I-10 at Beulah Road Interchange Project during a public information meeting Tuesday evening.
The project includes the widening of Beulah Road from West Nine Mile Road to Isaacs Lane, the realignment from Isaacs Lane to West Kingsfield Road, a new interchange at I-10 and the widening of I-10 from the Florida/Alabama line to the Pensacola Weigh Station.
The project encompasses an area that will see a significant amount of a future development.
As a result of planned growth, there is a need to provide connectivity from new areas of development to the surrounding regional transportation system, according to FDOT. Additionally, there is a need to provide an alternative route that will reduce travel times and congestion within the study area.
At the meeting, the initial engineering and environmental analysis were presented, and the public had the opportunity to provide comments. A public hearing will be held in 2020, and the study portion of the project will wrap up in 2021.
Documents from Tuesday’s presentation are below. Click each to download in pdf format.
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16 Responses to “Take A Look At The Planned I-10 At Beulah Road Interchange”
Git’er done, please! It would save so many minutes, hours, and days, boost the flow of business, business more efficient, less accidents, and even lives saved to streamline that which has to go around the elbow to get to the knee to traverse. The land is there. Use it for the far greater useful use of public property for the public good.
Not sure where they would put exit ramps at the Beulah Rd overpass with 2 large subdivisions on both sides next to the interstate. With the beltway in mind it makes since to go with the Issac Ln extension. Now that the state is in control of Beulah Rd north of 9 mile as well as Issacs, state and federal money will front the cost.
IMO.. I think they should get going on the West Kingsfield extension over to Beulah and bring the new exit end point there.That way the beltway could start from there.
That said, if they plan ahead then I really dont see the need to have that clover leaf exit down to the existing W. Kingsfield.. Just a waste of money since the beltway is going to happen sooner or later.
They don’t want to use Beulah Rd because the county owns the land on the north side of the interstate. They lease that property so they don’t want to give up a dime of that. It would only make sense to use Beulah Rd.
And about the trucks dodging scales.. they already do that by going to Hwy 112/Muskogee Rd. Which we are fed up with. They are turning a much needed simple job into a maze. We need an exit on Beulah Rd badly.
How does this involve the planned Beulah Beltway which is/was supposed to go right next to Beulah Road. Is the Beulah Beltway still in the works?
Do they not realize that would put an exit for trucks before the weight station.The amount of truck traffic getting off to avoid the scale and inspections will be Hugh!.
Hopefully they will not start anything until they make certain everyone is happy with their plans.
This will ensure we never get beyond the planning stages and save lots of money.
All this will do is just dump more traffic onto the 1960′ish engineered surface streets. A band-aid.
I’m assuming FDOT will modify the Northbound terminus from the current W Kingsfield Rd location into the future realigned W Kingsfield Rd.
See Kingsfield Extension project info:
https://myescambia.com/open-government/projects/project-details/west-kingsfield-road-extension
I wonder if Issacs Lane lines up with one of the proposed Beulah/I-10/Hwy 29 Beltway routes they posted a while back? If so this might explain a lot for the route.
Well, you see the great planning they did on Pine Forest Road at Wilde Lake and Detroit Blvd. I can”t wait to see the fiasco there going to inflict on Beulah Road ,Kingsfield and Issacs Lane.
Susan,
The study ends in 2021. Construction wouldn’t start until 2023 at best.
Listen to Scott. I feel the same way.
West Kingsfield Road from Hwy 97 to Beulah Road – very narrow on the road in some sections. There will definitely be more traffic on West Kingsfield Road when the work is completed. Using Beulah Road instead of Isaacs Lane is too simple for them to figure out. The Civil Engineers hired for this job don’t have a clue about what is going on.
So the construction will not even start until sometime in 2021? That is ridiculous, I live on Wilde Lake Blvd and we need some kind of relief for traffics NOW. I wish they would quit dragging their feet
At least they are doing something. This type of project should have been started when Navy Federal Bought their land. Our leaders have absolutely no foresight
Difficult to believe that the Beulah community would come to this.
I am thankful that I live in a lower density area.
I will start off with why go through Issacs Lane and not just continue on to the Beulah Road – I/10 overpass that is already there? There are many people who currently travel from Alabama and from Cantonment from Muscogee Road that come up Beulah Road not to mention the landfill traffic that would benefit from that exit more than making a new one right after that overpass? If any of you have not driven the section of West Kingsfield Road from 97 you would see why that road does not need more traffic due to the sharp and narrow turns and the flooding that occurs at the end of West Kingsfield Road. Also, if any of you have turned right onto West Kingsfield Road going north on Beulah Road, you know you have to make a sharp right and almost 180 degree turn back South. I hope they make a better lane there if they move forward. The landfill trucks will most likely start cutting through there too. Just my two cents on the proposed location.