Comments on: Letter To The Editor: Grover Robinson On I-10, Scenic Highway Work

By: Jack

Jack — Mon, 08 Sep 2014 17:45:09 +0000

I would have preferred to see traffic diverted from Scenic Highway to a new interchange at 9th Avenue. It seems inevitable that Scenic Highway will be transformed into a freeway and called improvement

By: Fran Turberville

Fran Turberville — Wed, 02 Apr 2014 04:42:25 +0000

Please do not plant non-native palm trees for the tourist. The one thing Pensacola can boast about are the large beautiful oak trees. With Gulf Power butchering our beloved trees, hurricanes and retention ponds being built our trees are suffering in appearance which makes Pensacola look shabby. I have driven Scenic Highway for years and never experienced flooding. I’m not quite sure where the flooding is occurring to warrant such large ugly holes in our earth. Also, Scenic Highway is home to a lot of wildlife and if we destroy their habitat we’ll lose our animals. Please don’t put an ugly chain link fence around these huge ugly holes. Thank you.

By: todd

todd — Fri, 20 Dec 2013 03:55:27 +0000

well you can look forward to crape myrtles or some other kind of bush to be put back in place of those huge live oaks.I’m sure the county com. see a copy of the plans and knew those trees were going to be removed who’s grover fooling

By: Rooster Cogburn

Rooster Cogburn — Thu, 19 Dec 2013 18:14:15 +0000

Wouldn’t have to build retention ponds if it wasn’t for all the left wing whacko EPA regulations that exist. Their environmental whackoism has now resulted in the death of innocent trees.

By: Susan

Susan — Thu, 19 Dec 2013 17:23:39 +0000

Progress is not always such a good thing. Clear cut more and more, and Pensacola will start looking a lot different like it did after Hurrican Ivan.

By: Liz Knight

Liz Knight — Wed, 18 Dec 2013 23:10:43 +0000

Kill paradise, put up a parking lot…

By: Susan Langston

Susan Langston — Wed, 18 Dec 2013 14:52:12 +0000

We are going to keep making excuses in the name of “PROGRESS” until every inch of the ear th’s land masses are covered in concrete.

By: Jeff

Jeff — Tue, 17 Dec 2013 18:58:05 +0000

@ Bill Hayden:
While your entry may contain some true and accurate information your juvenile name-calling undermines the entire post.

By: Bob H

Bob H — Tue, 17 Dec 2013 18:20:46 +0000

Many weeks I travel in and out of the PNS airport. The drive home takes me down Langley and then north on Scenic Hwy to I-10. Many will empathize with my horror as I made the left hand turn to go east on 10. The once magnificent stand of Live Oaks was wiped clean! For what?

Does Pensacola or Escambia County need to widen I-10? I have “never” seen what might be considered “traffic congestion” on I-10 or I-110. What will adding an additional lane on each side of the highway accomplish? Is the city or county expecting or currently experiencing growth that requires a wider highway?

At a time when America’s economy and standard of living is in constant decline and deficits occur at every governmental level, how can we or why do we chose to waste money on unneeded infrastructure such as this project seems to be? Who’s great idea was it to widen I-10 and who approved such a project?

The tragedy is the loss of what was beautiful land. It took hundreds of years for those incredible oaks to mature into a true wonder. A fenced retention area with haphazard landscaping will never replace what was taken from the area residents. The eastern approach to the city is now barren with concrete walls.

Those who approved this disaster should be held accountable.

By: GMH

GMH — Tue, 17 Dec 2013 15:00:12 +0000

The bridge is already 6 lanes so it’s only natural to expand to 6 from Scenic to Davis, where it is already 6 to Hwy 29. Sure wish they would do something with the eastbound I10 ramp from north on 29. You better have your foot in it getting on there.