State Road 16 in St. Augustine Under Consideration for Widening

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State Road 16,St. Augustine,Widening

The Florida Department of Transportation is studying the possibility of widening State Road 16 in St. Augustine from two lanes to four lanes. County commissioners consider this road improvement project as their top transportation priority.

ST. AUGUSTINE, Fla. — In just the last few years, State Road 16 in St. Augustine has gone from a rural road lined with farmland and woods to a

This is just in the development phase, and it could take years for the widening project to be complete. During last week's county commission meeting, St. Johns County Commissioner Christian Whitehurst said SR-16 has been the county's"number one transportation priority." While speaking to a DOT engineer at the meeting, Whitehurst said:"My math says that’s 46.5 million dollars per mile. We recently watched a meeting where, at that time, the widening project was going to cost us $5 million a mile. That was back in 2018. Can you talk about some of the costs that have been increasing and what’s contributing to it?"

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