Comments on: Contractor Granted Time Extensions For Molino Road Bridge Completion

By: vans

vans — Tue, 07 Nov 2017 21:52:15 +0000

@Chris – you do realize that 50mph is not that fast, right? Molino Road is a main road and dropping the speed limit to 35 mph would cause trouble for most people traveling that road. For me, it’s not about convenience so much as it is about that bridge hindering my method of transport between the pharmacy and my home. My medication has to be refrigerated or it can result in life-altering consequences. Having to take an additional 10 or 15 minutes can greatly affect me in a horrid fashion, so this bridge being out for this long is unacceptable. I agree, people fly down Molino Road. However, it’s a main road. If you don’t like it, live on a street that is not a main street.

By: David Huie Green

David Huie Green — Sun, 08 Oct 2017 00:19:08 +0000

REGARDING:
” Let’s try to finishing one before starting another! ”

That would never work. There are thousands of projects to do all over the state. If you never did but one at a time and each took at least a month to complete, thousands of months would go by before you got to the last one on the original list and many, many more would have sprung up in the mean time.

Question: If one man could dig a hole six feet deep, six feet wide, six feet long in six hours, how long would it take six thousand men to dig it?
Answer: It would never be done, they would get in each other’s way.

David for parallel processing,

By: Football Mom

Football Mom — Wed, 04 Oct 2017 14:43:54 +0000

FYI……….FDOT shut down ALL state road construction projects when Irma hit Florida. Just like the governor shut down all state offices and schools.

By: Scott Poynter

Scott Poynter — Wed, 04 Oct 2017 13:45:21 +0000

The pictures tell the true story. You tell by the shadows of the equipment that it is pretty well up in the middle of the day….How many workers do you see in those pictures?

By: Chris in Molino

Chris in Molino — Wed, 04 Oct 2017 10:07:21 +0000

@Micah—-Oh I take great joy in it. Great joy ! Its not what speed I think people should be driving. Its the speed limit. Which actually should be dropped. That speed was here when it was just us country folk before all the Yankees and southern urban hipster yuppies moved out here. When we didn’t need the “progress” (ha !) that they bring. You’ll probably say, “Don’t like it, move”. Well that’s actually what I plan to do. Once the new 4 lane comes in its gonna turn into Beulah here. Maybe you’ll even get you a Starbucks. Enjoy Molino.

By: For what's it's worth

For what's it's worth — Wed, 04 Oct 2017 00:55:36 +0000

FDOT contracts are awarded based upon the fact that no weather days or holidays are included in the computation of contract time. Regardless of whether the contractor strarted on day 1 or day 30 of the contract , it doesn’t matter. The contractor is due time for unexpected weather delays and holidays per the contract. He is also due time for any additional work performed beyond the original scope of the contract. As for hurricane Irma, ALL FDOT projects in the entire State were put on hold and told to do no work until they were instructed to return back to the project, So again, even though it was only a little “breezy” here in Pensacola, the contractor was stopped from working and again is due his contract days back.

By: NoMoreDetours

NoMoreDetours — Tue, 03 Oct 2017 23:59:16 +0000

Poor Planning and Poorr Follow Through. Let’s try to finishing one before starting another! Thank goodness we have not had a hurricane in the Florida Panhandle this year! We would never get to higher ground with all of the detours in Escambia County.

By: Micah

Micah — Tue, 03 Oct 2017 22:57:36 +0000

@Chris You take joy in this? There’s more reasons to wanting an unobstructed right-of-way than personal convenience. In between EMS and delivery drivers there’s more than enough reasons to see this project completed swiftly, disregarding residents and what speed you think they should be driving.

By: Bonnie Exner

Bonnie Exner — Tue, 03 Oct 2017 21:18:20 +0000

Of course,the project is not finished on time because there were months on end where there was no activity..and this was way before HURRICANE IRMA EVERY CAN INTO BEING..WAS TOLD THAT THE LOW BID GETS MULTIPLE JOBS BUT CAN’T SERVICE THEN IN A TIMELY MANNER..THEREFORE,A PENALTY FOR UNFINISHED PROJECTS,MIGHT CORRECT THIS SITUATION.

By: William

William — Tue, 03 Oct 2017 21:07:27 +0000

<>>>EVERYONE NEEDS TO CALL OUR COUNTY COMMISSIONER..STEVEN BERRY DISTRICT 5 AND TELL HIM … NO EXTENSIONS.

It’s a state FDOT project. They grant the extensions, not the county.