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$21.8 Million, 3-Year Project Beginning On Highway 90 Bridges Between Escambia, Santa Rosa
December 28, 2021
Construction is expected to begin next week on the Highway 90 bridge project over Simpson River, between Escambia and Santa Rosa counties.
The work includes reconstructing the eastbound bridge and widening the westbound bridge to include seven-foot outside shoulders and bicycle lanes. Additional improvements include milling and resurfacing the pavement, improving drainage, installing new signage and guardrail, and reconstructing curb and gutter.
Drivers should anticipate traffic shifts and nighttime lane closures. In addition, the speed limit will be lowered to 35 mph. The project is estimated for completion in early 2025.
All activities are weather-dependent and may be delayed or rescheduled in the event of inclement weather.
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10 Responses to “$21.8 Million, 3-Year Project Beginning On Highway 90 Bridges Between Escambia, Santa Rosa”
They need to be building a permanent bridge roadway level with newer bridge and then build the eastbound bridge level with the newer bridge roadway so the finished bridge updating has the capability of handling 3 lanes of traffic both directions! Then do the same upgrade for all bridges on the causeway! Of coarse upgrade westbound Escambia River bridge also! Widen the funnel spout of HWY 90 so it can handle more traffic from the bedrooms of Pace to the workplaces of Pensacola!
They wait until everyone is on the roads again! Why couldn’t some of these construction jobs of started during the lockdown when it didn’t inconvenience everyone? No one planning these jobs has any foresight!
Well, I’ve learned something new today. I’ve never heard the road called “The University of West Florida Causeway.” Mostly it’s just “the causeway” but I still refer to it as what so many referred to it in the 60s as, “the fill”. Short and to the point.
How about you address the congestion problems that have been plaguing downtown Milton for decades? Any time there is a problem on I-10, good luck getting anywhere because of the narrow road going through downtown. Bite the bullet, make some decisions, and put in a bypass already so we can develop the boardwalk already!!
Is the kayak launch at the Simpson River going to be closed? It is the best one in the county. I’m 77 and it is still manageable for me, when others are not. I hope the finished product still accommodates dock fishermen and kayakers.
Three year traffic delay to replace a single bridge on the causeway? Seems a bit ridiculous! The three mile bridge contract is about the same and that’s a far more ambitious project, questions should be asked why it will take this long. That’s a busy route to basically put out of commission that long!
This was already done from 2012-2015. Temporary bridges were put in place and traffic nightmares constantly. WTH happened?
Why don’t they address the morning and afternoon congestion involving light timing from Scenic to I10 first?
Again? It was what, 25 years ago they worked on that and then repairs again after Ivan. Seems like they need to upscale their plans for a bridge with a 50 to 100 year plan for a real bridge.
Maybe we should get Alabama to plan our road and bridge projects. They seem to have a knack for being able to plan ahead and build for the future. We seem to build late, trying to catch up with demand and by the time a project is completed we are close to having outgrown the improvement.
Really?!!
What is so wrong with that bridge that we should all pitch in to spend 21.5 million dollars and be inconvenienced for five years to 1 lane travel and 35 mph?
Yes, I know it says early 2025 and that this is only 3 and 1/4 years, but we know how that goes, right?
Even if they get done on time by some miracle, what is needed so badly that it should take 3 1/4 years to do it?
/throws hands up and shakes head.
Scheduled for three years means it will take at least five. I have been driving across the University of West Florida Causeway for many years and have always wondered why some of them couldn’t be replaced with concrete culverts (think big, not like a driveway), backfilled, and paved over. Finally, this project would be more tolerable with a temporary bridge put in going around the one being worked on. They have done it before. Traffic is going to be a nightmare.