With the recent announcement of Florida DOT funding of a long-awaited widening of John Young Parkway at Osceola Parkway and a flyover bridge for that intersection, there will now be two major John Young road projects coming in the next few years. The other, of course, is the planned widening of John Young from Vine Street south to Pleasant Hill.
As an aside, who was the rocket scientist who said "hey, let's choke John Young down by a lane just as we approach Osceola Parkway, and then open the lane back up on the other side again"? It's called planning, people.
What this will ultimately mean to us is better flowing traffic along JYP, but we also need to plan for some pain along the way. How many of us still aren't driving along Orange Blossom Trail north of Osceola Parkway because the construction there of the past few years changed our driving habits?
As these plans come together, it's important that the business community, government, and the contractors selected work together to minimize disruptions along the way. We're watching the progress of Martin Luther King Parkway Phase II to see just how aggressive road construction can be with short timeframes and incentives built into the contract.
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Is a new bridge planned to go over clay street that can handle 6 lanes? Will they choke it down during construction so that fire trucks and ambulances can't get thru during rush hours? How will they make it one way only during rush hours?
will Clay street be able to handle the spill over to Pleasant Hill? Or to Emmit? What communication has transpired between the city, the county and the state that has been published?
Great work.
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