Comments on: Escambia Approaches 40 Miles Of District 5 Dirt Roads Paved In Just Over Decade

By: Susie

Susie — Fri, 07 Jun 2024 13:32:27 +0000

When Escambia County starts MAINTAINING the roads that have needed re-paving for years, I’ll thank them. Seems like putting down some fresh asphalt deserves an award here when I think maintaining those roads is the real issue.

By: dave lamb

dave lamb — Thu, 06 Jun 2024 23:11:06 +0000

It is great to come back to my home county to visit friends and relatives and drive on all yhe new paved roads that were once dirt. My only complaint would be all the speed bumps!

By: D. Flowers

D. Flowers — Thu, 06 Jun 2024 20:16:06 +0000

Thank you, Aaron, for that update.

By: Patricia d

Patricia d — Thu, 06 Jun 2024 15:57:16 +0000

When are they going to pave Arena rd and Tobias ?
They are paving and repaying roads all around ! When I call they say paving approved, but on hold but don’t know why!

By: A Smith

A Smith — Thu, 06 Jun 2024 01:28:58 +0000

Dale the Road Dept. did a large part of the prep work on most of the roads on this list. Even did in-house paving on a couple of them.

And ,WHY?, is often a difficult question.

And yes we paved better than 80 miles of dirt road in the late 90’s early 2000. R/W acquisition was easier then for sure.

By: D. Flowers

D. Flowers — Wed, 05 Jun 2024 17:41:02 +0000

Many, many more miles or dirt roads were paved back when Bob McLaughlin was the Engineering Department’s Construction Manager, Rich Andrews was the Dirt Road Paving Program Manager, the Roads & Bridges Department did all the preps (at a far cheaper cost) and only the actual paving was put out for bid. It was a winning strategy, but it went away. Why?

By: R W

R W — Wed, 05 Jun 2024 15:32:26 +0000

How about maintaining the roads that are already paved. Like hwy 4 from hwy 97 to Century.

By: JJ

JJ — Wed, 05 Jun 2024 12:58:00 +0000

andPine Forest north of I-10 still one lane and a new traffic light going in for the new WAWA station. What a future worse bottle neck. Witnesses two drivers drive out of thatnew WAWA store and drive in the turning lane all the way up to the 9 mile gas station. What a joke for our county!!!!!!!

By: SW

SW — Wed, 05 Jun 2024 10:30:15 +0000

Wow! A whopping average of 4 miles a year for 10 years.

The fact there is one foot of dirt road in Escambia County in the 21st Century is a testament to how little the county commission cares.

It’s also reflective of how little the school board cares.about the quality of roads their buses have to drive on while picking up and dropping off students.

The county has outgrown its 5-member design.