Ridge Road extension progress and congestion relief
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The county’s agenda for Board of County Commissioners, Nov 9, 2021
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Thank you, sir. I I think I'll start with some good news.
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wanna I want it, I want it. See, you threw me off course.
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sorry. All right. Um I took a took a drive on the uh Ridge Road extension yesterday. What a phenomenal job. Uh Sam Bennett's done, the whole team is done. Uh Conan Graham. That road is elevated on some areas is really, really high, other times a little bit lower. the bridges they built in there, it's gonna be a tremendous road going through. Uh the progress they've made is phenomenal and we think we'll they could be open on time. There'd be could one thing and Dan will address it, but there could be one technicality
where they may not have the tolling equipment in place. They might have hold back opening the road. This road is gonna go all the way to Sun Sun Lake.
Right.
Which is phenomenal. And the progress again, what they've made. If you haven't taken a drive up there to go look at it, I just looked at it yesterday. It is phenomenal what they've done. Uh so this is gonna be a reliever. I had 'em send me the maps on the congestion relievers. It's gonna approve the traffic coming back from uh let's say seventy five Bellamy Brothers Road coming over to 41, the intersection from s from Sun Coast coming in, Moon Lake goes off the red car category, and I assume even to the south on 54. There's just improvements everywhere. So we need to get the route open quickly. Dan is
gonna work with the Turnpike Authority right now to try to if they don't have the toll stuff and the roads ready. I think you guys agree we should just open the road. Let the people start travelling. It's the people's money that built it one way or the other anyway. Let's get it going. And while they do get the toll and equipment together, so be it. But Dan, if you want to talk to that a little bit.