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FDOT Seeks Input On Widening Beulah Road, New I-10 Interchange Near West Kingsfield
March 21, 2021
The Florida Department of Transportation is seeking public input on a nearly $152 million plan to widen Beulah Road to four lanes and construct a new I-10 interchange with a connection to West Kingsfield Road..
The proposal includes:
- A new I-10 interchange in the area of Beulah Road.
- Widen I-10 to six lanes from the Florida/Alabama state line to the Pensacola Weigh station.
- Widen Beulah Road to four lanes from West Nine Mile Road to Isaacs Lane to I-10, connecting to West Kingsfield Road.
- New traffic signals would be added at the new I-10 interchange, Frank Reeder Road and West Kingsfield Road.
The improved Beulah Road would include not only two lanes in each direction, but also a 12-foot bicycle and pedestrian lane (see cross section below). FDOT has determined that four residences will need to be relocated.
The total cost estimate stands at $151.7 million — that’s $5.9 million for design, $16.1 million for right of way acquisition, and $129.7 million for construction.
If the process is fully funded, it could take another five years to complete the project.
The plans can be viewed, and comments can be submitted, by clicking or tapping here.
NorthEscambia.com graphics derived from FDOT data.
Above: A new Beulah Road interchange on I-10 with a connector to West Kingsfield Road.
Above: Beulah Road at Nine Mile Road.
Comments
32 Responses to “FDOT Seeks Input On Widening Beulah Road, New I-10 Interchange Near West Kingsfield”
lets get the roads that are under construction done first before we start a new one
There is a weigh station on Mobile Hwy, which is what west bound 9 mile (alt 90) turns into, there is no going around it that way. Now, if you would have said Muskogee rd (Hwy 112 in Alabama ), I would agree, but even then DOT has a pretty good presence on that road and will surely be watching it more after the interchange is built.
As a truck driver, I can tell you that slowing trucks on I-10 EB nearing the weigh station will NOT give up the merge lane to accelerating ramp traffic. It’s a big fine to miss a weigh station, so trucks won’t move over. You can see the potential for accidents.
Additionally, this new interchange provides a means for trucks to “dodge” the scales by going around it via Beulah and Nine Mile. Count on some overloaded trucks to be damaging the new roads that have taken so long to build.
The county needs to work with the state and start the county’s planned extension of Kingsfield straight over to Beulah rd and bring the state/exit road up to end there. If/when the beltway is built, thats the direction it will go anyway. Lot of biddable land out there so plan ahead now Florida! Beulah bout to Boom north of the interstate.. Why not make the exit a diverging diamond interchange like most new interchanges are doing or converting to now..
Just Saying.
Why start it even think of another project right now. How about finish 9 mile road first … it’s only been under construction for a decade now.
I-10 should be 6 laned across the entire county, Beulah rd should be 4 laned to Muskogee rd and the ramps shouldn’t have anything to do with Kingfield rd unless they plan to redo that entire road from Beulah rd to 297A.
If you do not 6 lane the interstate to at least 1 mile east of Pine Forest road , you will just be creating more wrecks on that strech of road because of the number of people tring to get on and off the interstate
Better hold off another 35 years give them time to finish 9 Mile road.
This will be needed to handle increase in traffic from the new Kingsfield rd project. They have so many new neighborhoods around Kingsfield and 97. Will help with traffic on 97, 297, pinecone, etc. This needs to start immediately.
There is NO need for public iinput,
they are going to do it way want, no
matter what anyone else said…………….
Yes we need i 10 exit in beaula road
Great idea! Let’s bring Beulah out of the dark ages!
Will there be a way to turn into the individual homes and developments that line Beulah Road from 9 mile road to this proposed exchange? If not this would be a nightmare of u-turns. Thank you for clarification and for keeping us informed. I live off of Beulah Road, just south of Frank Reeder Road. We are new to the area.
Folks, this is a STATE proposal, not County. The State is also responsible for 9 year road and 29. If you want to provide input besides on northescambia.com, contact the STATE FDOT.
The Kingsfield Rd. idea is a TERRIBLE one. How could a professional even imagine such a thing, unless it benefits them or they like to torture people? Good grief ! ! !
The WB 1-10 exit ramp does not need to connect on the pensacola side of beulah rd. instead it needs to go under beulah rd 1st and then connect to the Opposite side of beulah rd. The traffic going South on beulah rd going to navy federal could merge seamlessly to beulah rd.
Not a good plan. There is a huge problem with the garbage trucks by the dump. To make a right, going south into the dump, the trucks pull into the center lane and turn across traffic. Some have on their right turn signal and some don’t. There is going to b a bad wreck there.i agree that Beulah Rd should b widened from Mobile Highway to Muscogee Rd. And the entrance to I10 should b where I10 crosses Beulah Rd.
I also agree that an entrance/ exit to I10 should be on 9th ave.
Any I-10 connection to West Kingsfield is insane. FDOT please stop doing stupid stuff.
An exit off I-10 connecting to Buelah Rd. would make sense to get traffic to Navy Federal. But why not wait until the pandemic is mostly gone and Navy Fed have determined how many people they want back in the cubes instead of working from home?
Finish 9 Mile Rd and leave it alone! We have suffered enough!!
i believe this plan is great. but going ways off the I-10 would be not good since it be to W. Kingsfield Road is a extremely 2 way small road. as other have said, it barely supports current traffic due to it width. Don’t believe there’s enought demand yo place the exit point there. However if they would continue North SR 99 where it meets l-10 and place the exit there woulf make more sense. it would mimimize alot of additional infrastructure and right of way acquisition. which would reduce the 16.1 M.
Also how does this fall into the Escambia County long term comprehensive plan.
Does this plan have furture growth for the possible expansion plan and study of the I-120 ( # is just for example) outter loop for the county.
The county should have planned better, it shows the “amateur hour” of what these people can and can’t do. They saw it coming 20 years ago, all they could think about was the tax revenue for pork or other bs, and did not address it then.
All for any plan that can reduce the choke point, I have to run that gauntlet everyday at pine cone and 9 mile.
This entire nfcu/9 mile traffic debacle from the start has been an example of how small town politics is done and how they don’t have a clue what they are doing.
It did not have to be this way, be wary of what these politicians spout out of there “lie” holes.
We can’t get out of this mess, thanks to them.
Vote out every single one of them, and help yourself. Or sit there and hope they do something….not going to happen.
Beulah Rd must be widened all the way to Mobile Hwy. with the new Publix opening there will be much more traffic because no one wants to get stuck in the Nine Mile Eternity project.
Could they please finish 9 Mile Rd.and Hwy.29 first .
This nothing but making Navy Fed happy at the expense of the property owners. Ending a four lane at West Kingsfield is the stupidest idea ever. Everyone on that board needs to drive the road. See how narrow, winding and uneven the road is. There is no room to widen it either. I would hope that the county will step and fix Beulah rd. north to Muskogee rd as that road is horrible, dangerous and narrow with the garbage trucks flying. This needs some serious re-thinking!
Look at :Above: Beulah Road at Nine Mile Road.
Where is the Tom Thumb? Where is the Shell station? Where is the new Publix shopping center?
VAGUE VAGUE show stuff that makes no sense, that way if they make changes they just tell you , that you mis-read it .
I-10 does not run NB (north Bound) and SB (south Bound)
Let’s get 9 Mile Road completed then see what traffic looks like. Focus on getting the 9 year road DONE!
It is all about Navy Federal; whatever they want will happen.
If this project is anything like others currently ongoing around here, it will take years…say completion around 2030 or 2035.
I agree with Luis, there needs to be a interchange at 9th Avenue before Beluah Rd. If there was a ramp at 9th ave, it would ease some of the traffic off of Davis Highway. Why can’t they also have 2 lanes on Pine Forest going north from the I-10 to 9 Mile rd,
Although it is dumb to do this I meant to say “dump”
Only florida and there back scratcher politics would dumb All that traffic on a very narrow and curvey road has any of them even driven down West kingsfield road . WOW how stupid why not go on to hwy112 across country owned property.just saying
There needs to be an I-10 interchange at 9th avenue, it would alleviate some of the heavy traffic on Davis, Rumors have been around for years of a ramp being built, and after the Waffle House was built on 9th avenue, thought that they were true.
I can see what they are trying to do. But connecting that end of Kingsfield Rd.which is already challenging due to how narrow and winding it is will become an issue. In my thoughts that road can barely handle the traffic as it is. Or are they trying to make it easier to get garbage trucks off of Nine Mile Road ?