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| Traffic signals and new turn lanes are slated to be built at Brown Road and U.S. Highway 90. JASON MATTHEW WALKER/Lake City Reporter |
Traffic signal, turning lanes slated for U.S. 90 and Brown Road.
By TONY BRITT
tbritt@lakecityreporter.com
A traffic signal will be installed at Brown Road and U.S. Highway 90 in a matter of months, according to Florida Department of Transportation officials.
On Tuesday, DOT spokeswoman Gina Busscher gave an update on the project as part of the Columbia County Community Traffic Safety Team meeting.
The traffic signal will be in place “when the developer finishes with the turn lanes at the Cypress Lakes Business Park,” she said.
Busscher said construction will begin within the next two-three months.
“We are waiting on two things to happen. First, Florida Power and Light has to relocate some power poles that are currently too close to the roadway,” Busscher said. “Then we have to wait for the developer’s contractor (Anderson Columbia), because they have to place the final layer of asphalt on the new intersection and re-stripe it for the additional lanes.”
As part of the project, a left turn lane will be added to the westbound lane of U.S. 90 near the Brown Road intersection. On the eastbound lane, a left turn lane and a right turn lane will be added.
Busscher said the turn lanes are being paid for by the developer of the Cypress Lakes Business Park.
“The DOT is going to come after they finish the turn lane project and add a new traffic signal,” she said. “It will be a four-way intersection, and there is a new road that goes into the new business park.”
The contractor in charge of installing the traffic signal will be American Lighting and Signalization. Their crews are currently working on traffic signal installation projects in Cross City on U.S. Highway 19.
For the traffic signals being installed at the Brown Road intersection, the poles will be concrete poles with the traffic signals held on strand wire. Once the signal installation begins, the work should be completed within a month.
According to the latest DOT traffic count from 2007, there are an average of 6,742 vehicles a day pass through heading east of the county line.
The DOT planned to install a traffic signal at the Brown Road intersection as part of a past project but ran out of funding.
“People have been complaining and looking forward to a new traffic signal for years,” Busscher said. “We have been looking at putting a traffic there when we were going to widen U.S. Highway 90 from Lake City Avenue to Brown Road. That project was pushed back because of funding and so after the developer decided to add turn lanes, we decided to put the traffic signal in to help with the traffic.”
On Tuesday, DOT spokeswoman Gina Busscher gave an update on the project as part of the Columbia County Community Traffic Safety Team meeting.
The traffic signal will be in place “when the developer finishes with the turn lanes at the Cypress Lakes Business Park,” she said.
Busscher said construction will begin within the next two-three months.
“We are waiting on two things to happen. First, Florida Power and Light has to relocate some power poles that are currently too close to the roadway,” Busscher said. “Then we have to wait for the developer’s contractor (Anderson Columbia), because they have to place the final layer of asphalt on the new intersection and re-stripe it for the additional lanes.”
As part of the project, a left turn lane will be added to the westbound lane of U.S. 90 near the Brown Road intersection. On the eastbound lane, a left turn lane and a right turn lane will be added.
Busscher said the turn lanes are being paid for by the developer of the Cypress Lakes Business Park.
“The DOT is going to come after they finish the turn lane project and add a new traffic signal,” she said. “It will be a four-way intersection, and there is a new road that goes into the new business park.”
The contractor in charge of installing the traffic signal will be American Lighting and Signalization. Their crews are currently working on traffic signal installation projects in Cross City on U.S. Highway 19.
For the traffic signals being installed at the Brown Road intersection, the poles will be concrete poles with the traffic signals held on strand wire. Once the signal installation begins, the work should be completed within a month.
According to the latest DOT traffic count from 2007, there are an average of 6,742 vehicles a day pass through heading east of the county line.
The DOT planned to install a traffic signal at the Brown Road intersection as part of a past project but ran out of funding.
“People have been complaining and looking forward to a new traffic signal for years,” Busscher said. “We have been looking at putting a traffic there when we were going to widen U.S. Highway 90 from Lake City Avenue to Brown Road. That project was pushed back because of funding and so after the developer decided to add turn lanes, we decided to put the traffic signal in to help with the traffic.”
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