Jacksonville's busiest streets in 2020

[thelakelander]

Jacksonville's busiest streets by Average Annual Daily Traffic (AADT) count in 2020 according to Florida Traffic Online.

Read More: https://www.thejaxsonmag.com/article/jacksonvilles-busiest-streets-in-2020/

[Charles Hunter]

Obviously excluding the Interstates. What about other limited-access facilities like JTB, SR 9B, MLK, First Coast Xway?

[thelakelander]

Yes, excluding all limited access facilities. I need to mention that in the article. Thanks for the catch!

[jaxlongtimer]

I am guessing that if you widened this up to include Clay County, Blanding would have the top 5 or more positions on this list.  I avoid Blanding south of 295 at all costs.  I don't think I could live and work in that area knowing I would spend half my lifetime in my car  .  What also distinguishes Blanding to me is that the traffic is not only high in counts but that it hardly moves.  Some of the other areas with high counts have better capacity to move cars along.

Another good thing about many of these segments is, if you are familiar enough with the greater area, you can find "work arounds" to get where you are going.

[ralpho37]

It sure seems like a bunch of these roads are well over capacity and that there are no plans to address them. Baymeadows Rd. appears multiple times on this list. The stretch from Southside to I-95 and on to Phillips is only 4 lanes (2+2), has multiple bus stops and is always congested. Southside from JTB to Hogan is seemingly always backed up.

On a related note, the Southside ramp onto I-95 that appears on the list... I always wondered why it hasn't been expanded to allow for I-95 NB access and an exit ramp off of I-95 SB. Doing that would relieve some congestion off of Baymeadows.

[Charles Hunter]

On a related note, the Southside ramp onto I-95 that appears on the list... I always wondered why it hasn't been expanded to allow for I-95 NB access and an exit ramp off of I-95 SB. Doing that would relieve some congestion off of Baymeadows.

A few reasons
1. Cost of purchasing and removing the existing businesses on the east side of I-95 to add ramps and retention ponds.
2. I believe the undeveloped land west of I-95 is undeveloped because it is conservation land. I remember a major development proposed for that area was stopped a decade or so ago.
3. Too close to the Baymeadows interchange, per FDOT standards. FDOT requires 2 miles, and it is only about a mile and a half. The Southside / Phillips distance is obviously too close, but they were built long before there were spacing standards.  To get approval to go "too close" they would have to build a collector-distributor system - like FDOT did between Blanding and Collins on I-295. The FDOT plan to add 2 (or is it 3?) lanes in each direction to I-95, will pretty much fill the right-of-way from fence-line to fence-line.


I haven't been down that way lately, so it may already be done. FDOT has plans to add a left turn lane on Southside Boulevard at those I-95 ramps so northbound traffic can get to the ramp to I-95 southbound.

[SirJax]

It sure seems like a bunch of these roads are well over capacity and that there are no plans to address them. Baymeadows Rd. appears multiple times on this list. The stretch from Southside to I-95 and on to Phillips is only 4 lanes (2+2), has multiple bus stops and is always congested. Southside from JTB to Hogan is seemingly always backed up.

On a related note, the Southside ramp onto I-95 that appears on the list... I always wondered why it hasn't been expanded to allow for I-95 NB access and an exit ramp off of I-95 SB. Doing that would relieve some congestion off of Baymeadows.

There are plans. Some have started but others are not scheduled to start until 2-3 years from now.

Southside and Gate intersection is being worked on now.

A massive redesign of the Southside at Deerwood Park Blvd/AC Skinner Parkway intersection is scheduled to be implemented a starting in a couple years from now. Once completed, it will no longer be possible to go from AC Skinner to Deerwood Park and vice versa. Folks coming from these two roads could only go north or south on Southside at the intersection but not across it (you also wouldn't be able to turn left from Deerwood Park into the Southside service road).

Baymeadows & I-95 in about three years. Unfortunately, two plans which would have really helped helped here were rejected by landowners... One was to shift Prominance Parkway westwards so that it linked up with Baymeadows Way which would have consolidated two busy intersections into one. The other was to link Baymeadows circle west to Western Way. That would have necessitated relocating the Bank of America a few dozen feet but BofA refused to budge. The result is that proposed solutions, which involve even more traffic lights in that short section between Baymeadows Cir E and Baymeadows Way will probably only slightly increase traffic flow. FDOT claims they will "intelligently" link all these traffic lights together which will make a significant difference... I guess we'll see how well that works towards the late 2020s...