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FDOT Virtual Update: Nine Mile Road Study From Pine Forest To Mobile Highway
September 4, 2020
The Florida Department of Transportation has released a virtual update on a study about Nine Mile Road from Pine Forest Road to Mobile Highway.
The study considers alternatives for widening and improvements along the 5.8 mile stretch of Nine Mile Road. The projects addresses current and future capacity issues on Nine Mile Road and Pine Forest Road due to the expansion of Navy Federal Credit Union and other development projects.
The virtual project update, interactive map, virtual tour and a comment form are available by clicking or tapping here. The deadline to submit comments is October 15.
Pictured: A virtual rendering of Nine Mile Road at Heritage Oaks Boulevard (above) and Beulah Road (below). Courtesy FDOT for NorthEscambia.com, click to enlarge.
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18 Responses to “FDOT Virtual Update: Nine Mile Road Study From Pine Forest To Mobile Highway”
FDOT: Finish the current project you have going on along that exact same stretch of road FIRST before planning the next change. You don’t even know the impact of the current changes yet. Get out there, in person, and oversee the project. It’s horrible. They’ve been at it for over 4 years, and it still looks like they’ve barely started. “Our tax dollars at sleep.” The current project is very simple, yet it’s taking years just to modify a few miles of flat road. After Ivan, the I-10 bridge across Escambia Bay took less time to plan, survey, and build. This is like I-110 all over again: years and years of running a road project like a jobs program, making multiple mistakes, and ending up with a design that a smart 8th grader couple improve upon with an hour of observation and analysis. We deserve better. Follow the money.
They need to worry about finishing 9 mile first this is the longest road construction job I’ve ever seen it literally looks like it has gotten nowhere I agree with John they are too busy worried about tearing down the historical monuments then getting these roads done they should’ve built navy federal farther in the city instead of invading Beulah, it use to be so country out in Beulah not its a wreck!!
You have heard the saying NIMBY?
Our local politicians are too busy tearing down monuments to have quick road construction work done.
Slowest contractors ever doing nine mile project!!! Please don’t let them do this one too!!!
Navy a Federal is the best thing to happen to the area. I’ve lived here 32 years. They brought 30,000 jobs to us.
Navy federal is the worst thing to happen to that area. Rent prices have sky rocketed, and everything along 9 mile is so unaffordable for a single dad. I have been applying for the past 12 years at Navy Federal and have only gotten 2 interviews. Being the manager of the SSA mailroom & QA , surely I would have thought I could have gotten a job in there mail room. NFCU is a joke.
Drew got turned down for a job at Navy Fed. What really hurt him was the rejection letter from Dollar Tree. Best of luck buddy!
Pine forest .. A problem only because of bad Government over the years .. Road dept. Florida State.. All of the above
I agree with Drew…The Credit Union’s traffic coming out of their campus should be routed to the interstate. This would allow their employees and the local residents a better quality of life.
I do have to agree with everyone about Roads, Inc…snails pace…must be milking the state for millions in over runs and cost. State Road 87 was started and completed in more time than this project.
Additionally, WHY is there a U-turn at Navy Federal Way? Your making the residents of the small neighborhood on Nature Creek Blvd turn west to go east! Update the median so that they can turn left from their own road!
@Drew I guess you do not like high paying jobs in the area ,sounds like you need to move to a podunk town with the negativity your comment brings.
@ John R.
I moved to Escambia County in 1977. Even at that time Nine Mile Rd., between
US 29 and Pine Forest Rd. had a right-of-way as wide as a football field. We wondered when this area would be four- laned. Now, all these years later, we wonder when it will be finished.
@Bob…agree…Roads, Inc has to be the slowest contractor they could find….3 Mile bridge gets built faster than they put down a mile of road
Navy Federal needs to be rerouted out of the area like a previous comment said.
This is late to the game and only encouraging saturation down the road from this.
Send Navy Federal to the interstate and they can go to their low cost wage lives in Alabama and Milton.
Why continue to bottleneck the local area and make it impossible to get to businesses. I avoid this area because of this. But there are plenty of restaurants and drive-thrus and even groceries I could be using but I dont.
Navy Federal needs to be rerouted out of the area like a previous comment said.
This is late to the game and only encouraging saturation down the road from this.
Send Navy Federal to the interstate and they can go to their low cost wage lives in Alabama and Milton.
This project should be what is underway NOW. I’ve been living in this part of Escambia County for 55 years and still cannot understand the lack of think ahead planning that occurs for our great community. FDOT – Please press forward with this project. It looks like about the time Roads Inc removes the equipment for the current four lane build, we will be seeing a new contractor setup for what should have been constructed all along. I am pleased to see the effort but disappointed that it is taking place a such a late date.
The area and Navy Federal would be much better served with a dedicated overpass for exiting their campus and or a dedicated I-10 on-ramp. Both of those options would likely be more cost effective and offer less disruption to traffic (local Natives) during the project. I would appreciate the Administration at Navy Federal weighing in with a professional public opinion.
Pine Forest is a problem. It should not take 20 minutes to get from Roberts Road to the interstate during morning rush hour. What’s worse is trying to get home in the evening with only 1 northbound lane. Who wasn’t thinking when Pine Forest was most recently redone? And I’m all for pizza, but why would zoning approve a drive-thru where people leaving need to merge in front of those who have already been waiting to get home. Much like those morning commuters who have to wait for drivers southbound from Detroit merging in front of them.
The report contains the words “currently unfunded” and after reviewing their fairytale illustrations means none of us will be alive to see this project begin. Besides, if Roads Inc is awarded the contract people will be living on Mars before they would get it finished.