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Most CSX Crossings In Escambia County To Close Sometime During The Coming Weeks
November 4, 2024
Most CSX railroad crossings throughout Escambia County will be closed at some point over the coming weeks while crews perform maintenance. The closures are set to begin today.
Each railroad crossing will be closed for approximately 24-72 hours depending on the required work. Maintenance is expected to be completed in December 2024.
Roads will be temporarily closed at different times throughout the closure period depending on the maintenance schedule. Traffic will be detoured during this time. A schedule has not been released.
(Article continues below maps, click to enlarge.)
North Escambia County railroad crossing closures include: Cotton Lake Road; Private crossing north of Cotton Lake Road; East Bogia Road; Mystic Springs Road; Private crossing north of Mystic Springs Road; Courtney Road; Bluff Springs Road; Private crossing north of Bluff Springs Road; Salters Lake Road; Jefferson Avenue; East Pond Street; Front Street; Hecker Street; East Highway 4; McCurdy Street; and East Cottage Street.
South Escambia County railroad crossing closures include: East Cross Street; St. John Street; Airport Boulevard; Hancock Lane; East Oakfield Road; East Olive Road; Johnson Avenue; East Ensley Street; East Nine Mile Road; East Ten Mile Road; East Roberts Road; East Kingsfield Road; Old Chemstrand Road; Archer Road; El Camino Drive; Countri Lane; Woodbury Circle; Becks Lane Road; and Eden Lane.
Pictured top and bottom: The railroad crossing was closed on North Barth Road in February 202. NorthEscambia.com photos, click to enlarge.
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18 Responses to “Most CSX Crossings In Escambia County To Close Sometime During The Coming Weeks”
Don’t do it all at once!!! Horrible planning!
What a friggin’ nightmare. Why close every single crossing at the same dang time? How stupid are these people. The train tracks divide Pensacola in half. Stupid!!!!
Glad to see the crossings are being maintained but the planning on which crossings to do simultaneously is piss poor to put it mildly!
Not a well thought out plan by CSX and FLDOT. A sequential flow of crossing closures should have been implemented for local residents as well as commuters! Or even every other crossing would have better served our community.
They need to fix the tracks that are on Atmosphere Rd. All those 18 wheelers coming across them is making the tracks pop up and knock the bottom out from under your vehicle.
Hopefully, the scheduled closing of 10 Mile Road will be after this week while the SEC Women’s Soccer Championships are being held at Ashton-Brosnaham Soccer Complex.
Y’all forget who owns the right of way and who asks permission to run a road across their right of way.
Thank you CSX! The work to make these crossings safer for your trains and citizens’ vehicles is most welcome. The benefits received are long term and far outweigh the minor inconvenience of a delay or alternate route for a short time.
Hopefully they’ll give a schedule via this website, radio, TV and provide a 24 to 48 hr notice. Possibly where tracks are near schools they’ll wait until schools start & stop & try to work around it. Maybe if we start looking now at alternate routes going to work, school, etc it will alleviate frustrated drivers.
A schedule might be nice as some locations such as Mystic Springs have people randomly camping at the sites in there and it might be nice to know they can’t get out.
Just wondering if CSX will post notifications and dates of closures ahead of time? That would be helpful for everyone involved.
They don’t stop repairs and put their tools away and start again tomorrow. They are telling you to make plans for when your crossing is being repaired. This beats the heck out of a derailment,. which could close the crossing for a long time. People need to understand railroads need servicing.
CSX should be REQUIRED
to give 24 hou notice……….
I swear yall complain about anything, I would rather a little traffic delay then I would a bad bump that will damage my 40k car, or break a rim or worse a derailment, How about we try and say good ideal and hope it goes quickly and safely.
At least CSX is doing maintenance and not allowing their equipment to become dangerous. We hear the construction going on at night. People are going to complain no matter. We’ve seen some horrendous accidents on the news. Glad they are “on the right track” here. Good luck CSX!
Hopefully they’ll either do the work on the weekend or at night so it doesn’t affect work traffic, school traffic, etc.
It’s bad enough that a train decides to cross a major road (i.e. Airport Blvd, Burgess Rd) during rush hour traffic. There’s nowhere to go so you just have to sit there making everyone late for where they’re trying to go.
I travel Airport Blvd Monday – Friday and it is already congested without a train. Perhaps the county should get with the times and build viaducts/bridges over the tracks to keep the traffic flowing (ex: Brent Lane). Heaven forbid an emergency vehicle has to reroute and lose time because of this
How do they plan on handling crossings on roads that have no outlet and no way to detour, such as Becks Lake Road and several others? Are residence just trapped and businesses expected to just close while they have the crossing shut down for 24-72 hours?
This is going to be a nightmare