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District 5 Town Hall Discussion Dominated By Roads, Traffic And Growth
April 11, 2023
Escambia County Commissioner Steven Barry held a District 5 town hall meeting Monday evening in Cantonment.
Most of the questions and comments centered around infrastructure issues — roads, traffic and development.
One citizen told Barry that he knows growth in the county is moving northward, but he was “just asking, please, just take common sense and dot it properly with a lot of infrastructure that is still not in place”.
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Pictured: Escambia County District 5 Commissioner Steven Barry held a town hall Monday evening at the Langley Bell 4-H Center in Cantonment. NorthEscambia.com photos, click to enlarge.
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7 Responses to “District 5 Town Hall Discussion Dominated By Roads, Traffic And Growth”
Having traveled I understand traffic is worse in some other states…however it doesn’t make it ok for the HORRIBLE road system here. PINEFOREST an 10 are a perfect example. before more houses..roads need to be fixed..
I am from southern California but now live in small-town Florida. When most people speak of California traffic, it’s of the freeway, etc. Here, we are talking about local residents just trying to get to the grocery store. Please do something about Pine Forest Road. And, if necessary, fire those in charge of Escambia Planning and Zoning. They apparently aren’t doing their jobs.
Steven Barry isa one of the most sensible commissioners. Can you explain and give insight on OLF8.
While I do agree roads, etc are terrible here the traffic is nothing compared to other areas. I lived in San Diego for over 12 years. Now that’s traffic.
I was born in Pensacola and have lived here most of my life, but after living in San Diego for several years in the early 2000s, I know what real traffic looks like.
If you think the traffic is bad here, you are clueless.
We travel HWY 4W and also HWY 4A every day. To my family members homes in Century, Grocery Store, church shopping and I have a son, daughter- in- law and grandchildren that travels these roads every day to work and I am making a request of widening and resurfacing of these roads a priority and the pot hole’s are awful. These roads are dangerous. Please do something about this, been waiting to long to get something done.
We could not attend due to health reasons, but glad to see we’re not the only ones concerned about the traffic problems. The state may own Pine Forest Road, but the county evidently does not have the common sense to see what is happening and put forth some kind of solution.