As Jacksonville eyes doubling its gas tax, residents are still waiting to see construction completed on major road work promised when City Council extended that same gas tax in 2014.
Most of the work on that list has either been done or is under way, but the Jacksonville Transportation Authority expects it will be 2024 before all the construction wraps up by closing out the final project in the northern end of San Pablo Road.
The original scope called for about $100 million of work but those estimates proved to be outdated and the tab has risen to around $167 million, which includes $13 million of JEA utility work added in to the projects.
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Loctek Ergonomic, which makes work furniture focused on wellness and productivity, has leased a Jacksonville warehouse and plans to build a distribution center in North Jacksonville.
Loctek’s U.S. headquarters is in Livermore, California. The Bloomberg news service says Loctek Ergonomic Technology Corp. is based in China.
Loctek says it has 1,400 jobs and operates factories in China and Vietnam and distribution centers in Livermore, which is near San Francisco, and in Memphis, Tennessee, and Houston.
Loctek Inc. Development Manager Lori Wu said Feb. 11 by email that the company occupies a building at 1350 Tradeport Drive and will build at Faye Road, which is near the JaxPort Blount Island Marine Terminal.
New road construction is coming to multiple parts of Jacksonville, and with it some detours.
Meanwhile, AAA has bad news about gas prices, as its latest survey says COVID-19 has soured many Floridians about traveling.
First, the Jacksonville Transportation Authority conducted a virtual groundbreaking this week for its latest JTAMobilityWorks project on a Northside road.
Alta Drive between Interstate 295 and Burkit Lane will be rebuilt as part of a $38.4 million project. The existing roadway from north of I-295 to Faye Road will be rebuilt into a six-lane, divided roadway. From there to Ashgrove Road, it will be rebuilt into a four-lane divided urban section, then a five-lane section to Burkit Lane.