To: lkiefer@coj.net; JINSANL@coj.net
Gentlemen:
The AACC has been trying for years to get four road projects accomplished by
planners and adopted into construction funding and also trying to remove one
road project from planning as worthless. We have been successful in killing
the Wells Road Extender as not being worth the exorbitant cost. We have
been successful in getting the Collins Road @ I295 interchange funded for
construction in July 2009, with lots of help from all who took time to
listen. The Mayor, US Rep Stearns, Sen Wise, Rep Carroll, the MPO staff,
FDOT, and many others have made this vital project a future reality.
We have been partially successful in getting the College Drive Extender
project on the forefront of nearly everyone in Clay county with a push from
the MPO and Comm. McGovern and Bush.
We need help from you in getting the extension of Collins Rd from Old
Middleburg to Cecil Commerce Center. The Mayor has already agreed this
might could be done as part of BJP, but it needs to have a P & E study done
and feasibility study and traffic study completed.
Can you take this for action? As discussed in your offices, this has been
looked at by many but has not yet been placed on the drawing boards.
We also need your help in getting Shindler Rd realigned with Cheswick Oaks
along the JEA easements for power lines. Since BJP is paying to have JTA
widen Argyle Forrest Blvd with construction starting soon, this may be a hot
topic. That plan calls for a new light at Shindler and AFB along with a
revamped light at Cheswick Oaks and AFB. Our plan would remove the light at
Cheswick Oaks and move it to the newly created Shindler/Cheswick Oaks
intersection. The use of one light instead of two so close together would
greatly aid traffic movements. In our view, the current plan of two lights
so close together will impede traffic movements. The current roadways could
be eliminated as to Cheswick Oaks and left as a right in/right out as to
Shindler. The current Cheswick Oaks could also be turned into a cul de sac
not intersecting with AFB and replaced by the newly aligned road under the
power lines. We have discussed this with Kirkwood Presbyterian church and
they are not opposed to it so long as we tell them our plans so that they
don't build onto the wrong end of their property. their access is from AFB
and would not change since they do not have access along Shindler and would
not have access along the newly aligned Shindler and it would not impact
them either way. Can you get this fast tracked so that the tax-payers don't
waste money building interchanges that are soon thereafter torn out and
replaced?
David Hodges, Chairman
AACC Trans. Comm
Jacksonville
ftc@fdn.com
904-237-5917
904-778-0459 fax
By David Hodges
Gentlemen:
The AACC has been trying for years to get four road projects accomplished by
planners and adopted into construction funding and also trying to remove one
road project from planning as worthless. We have been successful in killing
the Wells Road Extender as not being worth the exorbitant cost. We have
been successful in getting the Collins Road @ I295 interchange funded for
construction in July 2009, with lots of help from all who took time to
listen. The Mayor, US Rep Stearns, Sen Wise, Rep Carroll, the MPO staff,
FDOT, and many others have made this vital project a future reality.
We have been partially successful in getting the College Drive Extender
project on the forefront of nearly everyone in Clay county with a push from
the MPO and Comm. McGovern and Bush.
We need help from you in getting the extension of Collins Rd from Old
Middleburg to Cecil Commerce Center. The Mayor has already agreed this
might could be done as part of BJP, but it needs to have a P & E study done
and feasibility study and traffic study completed.
Can you take this for action? As discussed in your offices, this has been
looked at by many but has not yet been placed on the drawing boards.
We also need your help in getting Shindler Rd realigned with Cheswick Oaks
along the JEA easements for power lines. Since BJP is paying to have JTA
widen Argyle Forrest Blvd with construction starting soon, this may be a hot
topic. That plan calls for a new light at Shindler and AFB along with a
revamped light at Cheswick Oaks and AFB. Our plan would remove the light at
Cheswick Oaks and move it to the newly created Shindler/Cheswick Oaks
intersection. The use of one light instead of two so close together would
greatly aid traffic movements. In our view, the current plan of two lights
so close together will impede traffic movements. The current roadways could
be eliminated as to Cheswick Oaks and left as a right in/right out as to
Shindler. The current Cheswick Oaks could also be turned into a cul de sac
not intersecting with AFB and replaced by the newly aligned road under the
power lines. We have discussed this with Kirkwood Presbyterian church and
they are not opposed to it so long as we tell them our plans so that they
don't build onto the wrong end of their property. their access is from AFB
and would not change since they do not have access along Shindler and would
not have access along the newly aligned Shindler and it would not impact
them either way. Can you get this fast tracked so that the tax-payers don't
waste money building interchanges that are soon thereafter torn out and
replaced?
David Hodges, Chairman
AACC Trans. Comm
Jacksonville
ftc@fdn.com
904-237-5917
904-778-0459 fax
By David Hodges
