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Escambia Hires Firm To Align Quintette Road At Highway 95A
October 31, 2025
Escambia County has awarded a design services contract for the alignment of Quintette Road at Highway 95A.
The $471,245.45 contract was awarded to Momentum Engineering Group, Inc.
Currently, the east and west legs of Quintette Road are offset approximately 115 feet from one another, creating a hazard for the smooth flow of intersection traffic. There is no available right-of-way for a lateral shift on the west side of the intersection, but the east side has an approximate 100-foot right-of-way, which could accommodate a northerly shift Immediately adjacent to this intersection are a concrete plant, asphalt plant, a high-end vehicle restoration complex, a new residential development, and a new Circle K convenience store under construction on the northeast corner.
The design will also include a new traffic signal and a westbound right-turn lane onto Highway 95A. Momentum will also provide for public input, surveying, construction plan preparation, permitting, bidding assistance, and limited project construction oversight.
The total cost of the alignment project is estimated at $2.375 million for design and construction. Circle K has donated $250,000 and right-of-way toward the improvements. Escambia County has obligated $1.275 million, and Florida Department of Transportation’s Transportation Regional Incentive Program (TRIP) funding of $850,000 is allocated for 2026.
A timeline for the intersection construction work has not been announced.
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7 Responses to “Escambia Hires Firm To Align Quintette Road At Highway 95A”
Quintette is a nightmare. The traffic problems and that intersection in particular. The whole road should be widened from 95A to Highway 29. The whole road needs to be paved all the way to 5points. Definitely a traffic light there as well. The commissioners must be making bank because of the hundreds of houses being built in that area but no road improvements in sight. This county is ridiculous!
When I say light I mean a street light
There aren’t even any accidents at this intersection so why fix something that isn’t even broken! There NEEDS TO BE A LIGHT on that intersection more than ANYTHING!
What happened to the plan to make Quintette a connector highway from Beulah road to Santa Rosa county? Quintette is being used by more and more people everyday. Wake up commissioners in both counties!
At some point, the Quintette Road bridges over the Escambia River will become structurally deficient. They are already functionally deficient (meaning they are of old design standards in terms of traffic volume and safety).
It will be interesting to see if Escambia and Santa Rosa Counties evenly split the cost of replacements Escambia gets stuck with the majority of the cost (regardless of the benefits to both counties) since all but maybe 300 feet are in Escambia.
In my view, this highway segment is far too busy to be a county road in both counties. It was once a state secondary road. Chumuckla and Woodbine south of Five Points, and Quintette Road from Five Points to US 29 (as part of a bypass to a new “Exit 1”, should be a FDOT maintained state road. Regionally significant. Far too much traffic volume to be a local road, especially if a bypass is built.
WASTE of MONEY and TIME. These roads are completely different–one is a highway that will need to be four-laned in the future to handle traffic safely–the other is a residential neighborhood. No need to connect the two. Perhaps this firm that Escambia has hired will determine that and make these recommendations.
Mr. Commissioner, how about repaving Quintette from old highway to 29. This has to be one of the worst paved roads in the county.