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[Florida]

all that for a road widening huh?

[cityboy05]

Yea the canopy roads are what really get me! I have told i was weird before.Aww I am an odd one.

[Florida]

well then my question is why do you think they can do it on Park and not on say Miccosukee or Old Bainbridge where things are dangerous.

[cityboy05]

Was park ave. really considerd Canopy? I don't see any room to widen old bainbridge. Well at least on my portion of Old Bainbridge.

[Florida]

Not officially Canopy like our other roads, but it was canopy... the portion that they widened. Old Bainbridge doesn't need to be widened in the 4 lane since... the width of the lanes just need to be stretched.

I'll stop posting for the day... I've reached 1000!

[cityboy05]

I-10
this is old but this is good for I-10

[csmurphy8885]

8 Million Dollars awarded to the Cap Cir NW widening from the government.  That will allow for 8 million to be shifted to another project. Good news for our  HIgh priority road works.

Edited by csmurphy8885, 30 July 2005 - 09:48 PM.

[Florida]

This is in addition to our other Federal Grant Recieved last year for the same segment in the amount of $10 - 15 Million.

[csmurphy8885]

I hope they use the surplus to get extra workers to speed up the construciton time.  That segment is important to the region.

[Florida]

I've heard the money will be used primarily to offset the cost of planning and design, I don't know about everyone else, but I tend to think the Plan and design shouldn't run much more than $1 Million, land acqusition should be the big gorilla... we'll see.

[csmurphy8885]

Can NE U Guys post pictures of the Interchagne improvements planned.  Not being able to access pdf's at work is killing me.

[Florida]

I don't have any renderings or pictures of west side CC road improvements.

[csmurphy8885]

I-10 Interchanges... sorry, new topic/same thread

[Florida]

I'm sorry man... can you go to http://movingi-10forward.com

it has all of the map and detail there.

[csmurphy8885]

DOWNTOWN HIGHWAY 27/Thomasville rd  SIMPLE BYPASS PLAN
Instead of having pedestrians afraid of monroe street, maybe a couple of little alterations might make alternates more accessible.  This could also help move traffic from 27 to I-10, if via the thomasville interchange.

THE PLAN:
Change N. Calhoun st. from a one-way southbound, to a one-way NORTH bound with a continous flow from appalachee pkwy and onto thomasville rd (a secound lane to I-10 might be neccisary).
Change N. Gadsden st. from a one-way north bound, to a one-way SOUTH bound connect into appalachee pkwy underneath the bridge of franklin blvd, merging where the current merge lane from gaines and begin the third lane of traffic for constant flow.  the kink- interchange from Thomoasville rd to southbound Gadsden at current location would need bridging.

Extra issues-
Part of the historic area will attract pedestrians.  But i think a few stops, with arelatively low speed limit, might help to express the traffic flow.  The shade of the trees will help relaxe people while they cruise.  It would be the tallahassee equivelent of the S. Fla sunbathing expressways.  Also lesson the traffic strain on a tightly bordered N monroe to I-10 and havana.

Map: Yellow [new northbound] Blue [new southbound]

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[Florida]

Your plan is so much better than mine! I'm both jealous and excited... we need to take these ideas to the commission!

[csmurphy8885]

This was my cheap version, but really, i think a tree top flyover bypass would be an awsome attraction and if aligned right, an awsome traffic supressor.  Like driving into town from the southside, just that short bridge gives an awsome feeling of treetop fun!

[Florida]

You know what... If you and I are thinking about the same thing, I'm thinking about the stretch from Adams to Gaines along Duval I believe, but its my favorite road downtown. If we could develop that area things would be so nice.

[csmurphy8885]

Exactly... imagine a similar ride from 27 up into the air in the treetops connecting over to north bound Calhoun! beautiful! relatively cheap! and an awsome way to express our tree city status.  we might lose one or two.  We could call it "the Treeway."  No one here can tell me that is not tallahassee one hundred percent!... even southbound running under 27 will be an exciting ride..   i do think we should move on this... call the engineers!!!! lets get some studies done!!!

[Florida]

LOL... lets do more studies!

I actually think the article in the Tallahassee Democrat ® today about there being a new route created to go from Downtown to the Airport was interesting.

I'm here in Chicago and I see this in many places, often, cities have gateway "issues" between their airports and the downtown. Here in Chicago between the airport I flew in from to the downtown area, there was nothing but blight, litter, and crumbling buildings for miles, until the downtown came into view. Same is the case in Tallahassee for the most part.

If you take Gaines West you see nothing but old, outdated Warehouses on this thin congested road. Or if you go South on Adams or Monroe and then west, you'd be forced to endure Tallahassee's less attractive industrial side, especially around the Flea Market area.

What we need is not a new road, but to take the funds we would spend on a new road and actually invest in our existing infrastracture. Can you image a Monroe that was widened all the way to South Capital Circle, or a Adams Street that did the same? Could you imagine the landscaping they could do all along the Southern Part of Capital Circle, especially around the Flea Market, and along Monroe where those very ugly junk yards are? This same $80 Million dollars could be spent, re-routing Gaines Street for oneway east bound and Madison one way West bound... intersection improvement at Lake Bradford, an asthetic "face lift" along Lake Bradford which officials say will cost $3,000,000.00 and improvements along Orange Avenue, or Spring Hill Road. I'd much rather support these concepts than the creation of an all new road for an unknown arbitraty reason.

I've been very supportive of our City leaders in the past, but time has come now for them to be a little smarter with our money, and our time. We don't have forever to do things in Tallahassee... we've got alot of work to do to turn our city into a Business Mecca, we don't need to waist it on useless ideas like creating new roads that go to the same place as our existing roads. What our existing roads need is a little TLC (Tallahassee-Leon Care) which I feel would be much cheaper.