After years of planning, the City of Jacksonville broke ground on the widening project of Old Middleburg Road Thursday morning.
The first phase of the project will expand the road from two to four lanes, from 103rd Street to Parman Road.The second phase of the widening project will include all the way down to Argyle Forest Boulevard.“It’ll be a four-lane road with pedestrian walkways, nature trails, people, a bike path, it’s just going to be really, really nice. And there’s other infrastructure stuff curbs that will be redone, there’ll be closed drainage, so drainage should be so much better in the area,” Johnson said.
Pouncey said he frequently travels down OId Middleburg Road and he gets caught in traffic a lot. He hopes the three-year project goes by quickly. “I mean, you know, three years is a way down the road... but it’s good to know that there’s hope for it. And you know, some as the population around here grows, the roadway is growing a little better. So that’ll kind of help us out,” Pouncey said.
Councilman Johnson said the project will cost around $36 million. Those funds will come from the Better Jacksonville Plan.Ariel Schiller joined the News4Jax team as an evening reporter in September of 2023. She comes to Jacksonville from Tallahassee where she worked at ABC27 as a Weekend Anchor/Reporter for 10 months.
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