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Escambia County Commits $1 Million For Safety Improvements On Highway 4, Highway 4A
September 6, 2024
The Escambia County Commission Thursday night committed $1 million for safety improvements on Highway 4 and Highway 4A in North Escambia.
Escambia County Engineering has contracted with civil engineering firm Jacobs Engineering to provide an assessment of the condition of both county roadways.
“We have an engineering firm looking at Highway 4 and Highway 4A right now about doing some improvements,” District 5 Commissioner Steven Barry said at the Thursday night commission meeting.. “It was not gauged to be as narrow as Highway 164 in the north end, but both roads are also narrow. In some of the areas where we have curves, they are specifically looking at some of the more dangerous turns and curves on those two highways in the north end.”
Jacobs Engineering expects to complete their analysis by January 2025, and Escambia County engineering and traffic divisions will review the report and identify the sections that are the most cost-effective to widen while considering the need due to lane departures. The focus will turn to rebuilding those areas immediately. The remaining portions of the study area will go through a formal design process considering right of way and drainage needs
along the corridor.
The commission voted 4-0 to transfer $1 million from the Local Option Sales Tax (LOST) IV District 5 Discretionary Funds for the project.
Highway 4A is just under seven miles from Highway 4 in Byrneville to Highway 29 in Century. Highway 4 is about 13.5 miles long from Highway 97 near the Davisville Community to Century.
The third and final phase of an Escambia County project to widen portions Highway 164 across the northern part of the county is currently underway. When completed later this month, 2.16 miles of the dangerously narrow roadway will have been widened.
Pictured: Widened roadway on Highway 164 just east of Highway 97. NorthEscambia.com photos, click to enlarge.
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11 Responses to “Escambia County Commits $1 Million For Safety Improvements On Highway 4, Highway 4A”
Just keep in mind the kind of drivers we have around here…. widening and re-paving these roads will exponentially increase the speeds they drive at. Not saying that the repairs aren’t needed but so is some law enforcement.
Well,
good point. I yield.
David in the wrong
@DHG
I’m sure you’ve heard of ECAT.
Definitely not school board.
REGARDING;
“Instead of the county buying million dollar buses for public transport, they need to address this critical safety problem that impacts all of us.”
The School Board and the Board of County Commissions are separate entities. Also, as best I can recall, school buses with air conditioning run around $135,000 rather than a million dollars.
Yes, Local Option Sales Tax money has been siphoned off for other good things than improving roads, but not buying newer more reliable buses is not the solution.
David for proper pots to pull from
Glad to see hwy 4 to 97 finished would love to see some signs put back up stating where Bratt starts and ends on hwy 99also. On hwy 4also
I thought of everyone that travels and lives on these two road may need to petition the county until these roads are widened and re-surfaced
Highway 4A and Highway 4 is so dangerous. It is really dangerous when a school bus and a truck with the big side mirrors that haul a trailer or even two trucks that pass by each other. Heck it scares me in my car to pass these. Needs to be widen and repaved .
It may be a good idea to finish HWY 164 on the east side of 99 as well. Hopefully it will look better than what has already been done. All of the roads in this north-end need repair, upgrading, and widening.
Hwy 4A is 18 feet wide which is 4 feet under the state requirement of 22 feet plus the state requires a 3 foot shoulder. Hwy 4A is dangerous – there’s not enough width for a school bus and trailer to pass safely. A million dollars is a start but not near enough to solve this problem. Instead of the county buying million dollar buses for public transport, they need to address this critical safety problem that impacts all of us.
Just not sure why we have to hire an engineering firm to tell us the road needs some improvements.
Yes!!! The county has replaced some bridges in north Escambia (Example: the new bridge over Canoe creek on Hwy 4) but the roads on either side are crap and dangerous. Just saying