I-95/I-10 Operational Improvements Conceptual Plans

[Metro Jacksonville]

I-95/I-10 Operational Improvements Conceptual Plans



Metro Jacksonville shares the Florida Department of Transportation's (FDOT) conceptual plans for the widening of the Fuller Warren Bridge and the addition of a Roosevelt Boulevard flyover.

Read More: http://www.metrojacksonville.com/article/2014-feb-i-95i-10-operational-improvements-conceptual-plans

[Kay]

So this came directly from the FDOT and MJ did not write this, correct? 

[Jumpinjack]

We will be interested to see where they will put the new retention ponds in the Riverside area and the equipment staging areas for the new Stockton Street ramp.

[thelakelander]

So this came directly from the FDOT and MJ did not write this, correct?

Correct. Right off the website, linked as the source.

[I-10east]

Nice aerial view of the city on the top post.

[mtraininjax]

Kay, et al, there is now a website devoted to the project:

www.10and95.com

What blew me away is that when they first started the bridge building in 2005, the design at the time figured the bridge would carry 210,000 vehicles per day, but by 2015, they expect the number to be more like 250,000 per day and by 2040 will be 290,000. You know what we get when they assume?!?!?!

Something is going to happen because the bridge is obsolete in terms of the number of cars being carried and FDOT seems hell bent on fixing what they did not fix the first go-round, even if a few neighbors say no.

[Dog Walker]

By 2040 we won't be driving cars anyway, they will be driving themselves and be doing a whole lot better job of it than we are now.  That will more than solve any capacity problems.

Are we the only city in the US besides Atlanta that isn't smart enough to re-route the interstate AROUND the city rather than through the middle of it.  Tampa and St. Petersburg did, why can't we?

[I-10east]

Are we the ONLY city in the US besides Atlanta that isn't smart enough to re-route the interstate AROUND the city rather than through the middle of it.  Tampa and St. Petersburg did, why can't we?

That ship has long sailed. Interstate highways built near major cities' downtowns are VERY common; I'll even say that more do than don't. 

[IrvAdams]

I think it's quite good that the Xways go through Jax rather than around. If anything, I would like to see more well-built exit ramps, encouraging some of those quarter-million cars to pull off and 'sit a spell'. Tourists, that is...

[I-10east]

^^^Well said.

[I-10east]

^^^I-95 goes through Southbank DT (which many don't consider the core) but just edges Northbank DT. 

[NIMBY]

One goal of the SR 9B project is to facilitate a downtown bypass for north/south I-95 traffic.  When SR 9B is connected to I-95 the mileage is actually shorter to take it and I-295 around the east.  Of course, this doesn't help with I-10 traffic, but it should keep some through traffic out of the core.

[Captain Zissou]

^^^I-95 goes through Southbank DT (which many don't consider the core) but just edges Northbank DT. 

It's still enough to kill connectivity between the Southbank and San Marco.  After Thr hack job that the city did to separate DT and Springfield, we need more connection between all parts if downtown and the core neighborhoods. I don't think an additional 100 foot wide raised roadway will do much to that end.

[fieldafm]

Are we the ONLY city in the US besides Atlanta that isn't smart enough to re-route the interstate AROUND the city rather than through the middle of it.  Tampa and St. Petersburg did, why can't we?

That ship has long sailed. Interstate highways built near major cities' downtowns are VERY common; I'll even say that more do than don't.

No it has not.
Truck traffic can be re-routed to the beltway... something most major cities require.

[I-10east]

^^^I didn't say anything about truck traffic, LOL