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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 The original scope called for about $100 million of work but those estimates proved to be outdated and the tab has risen to around $167 million, which includes $13 million of JEA utility work added in to the projects. ....
Eldora Wilson wishes she could turn the clock back to the 1970s. She remembers not only when ground beef was just 90 cents a pound, but when she didn t have to leave her New Town neighborhood to buy groceries. As she recalls, everyone in her neighborhood did their grocery shopping at the Daylight Grocery store on the corner of Myrtle Avenue and Kings Road, a short walk from her house on Steele Street. Most weekends, Wilson said, the store was crowded with shoppers, many from her neighborhood. That was good, because my daddy used to go there and he had an account set up with them, Wilson said. He was a railroad man and he got paid every two weeks, and that s when he would pay on the account for the food we got. They had everything, and it was convenient for everybody. ....