Traffic alert: University Avenue lane reductions will start on June 28
June 27, 2023
Press release from Florida Department of Transportation
GAINESVILLE, Fla. – As part of construction activities for the Raised Crosswalks project on University Avenue near NW 14th Street and Gale Lemerand Drive, University Avenue will be reduced from four lanes to two lanes between Gale Lemerand Drive and NW 19th Street.
University Avenue eastbound will be reduced from two lanes to one lane between NW 15th Street and NW 13th Street, and westbound will be reduced from two lanes to one lane between NW 14th Street and NW 15th Street. The lane reductions will begin Wednesday, June 28, and are expected to be in place throughout summer 2023, weather and unforeseen circumstances permitting.
It’s very sad that you have to treat college students like third graders and slow traffic on a main thoroughfare because they have no common sense and seem unable to obey the law. Another result of failure to enforce the law.
Well the college age-range is also probably the worst about texting and driving. Plus texting and walking into the street without looking both ways first. So there’s that, too…
Instead of blaming the drivers for these accidents, the pedestrians should either put down the phones or have a sober friend walking with them.
That road has been there functioning fine for many years – and just now it’s a problem?? GMAFB!
How much is this costing?
In a normal city, it would all get done in 4 or 5 days and the roads would be reopened.
The city’s goal is to make driving through that area so inconvenient and regretful you will be cured of taking your evil polluting gas guzzler by there again. Such conundrum will highly encourage you to take a bus or buy an electric scooter to ride.
Oh, and said scooter will be promptly stolen from you on campus as soon as you affix it to a bike rack and walk away…