LYNN HAVEN — Travel Baldwin Road? Starting Monday, you may need to find a new route.
A portion of the road will be closed for at least 45 days. During the roadwork, which is being done by Roberts and Roberts Inc., road closure and detour signage will be posted to direct westbound and eastbound traffic around the construction area via East Avenue, Mosley Drive and Minnesota Avenue.
Traffic will be detoured from just east of Minnesota Avenue to just east of Syracuse Avenue to reconstruct the roadway and permanently repair roadway depressions.
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The few homes along the segment of Baldwin Road being repaired on the Syracuse Road side still will access their homes throughout the project, said Josie Cyr, engineering division manager for Bay County.
Cyr said the roadwork is taking place on a heavily traveled section of Baldwin Road.
“There are about 10,000 vehicles a day” that travel it, she said. “It’s busy pretty much all the time.”
She said county officials understand the inconvenience to drivers.
“We planned this during a period of time that is the least busy time for the roadway,” Cyr said. “School will be out.
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“We appreciate the public’s patience and understanding,” she said. “Anybody that has driven that segment understands what the problem is there. This is a permanent solution to the problem. It is bumpy. My kids call it ‘the roller-coaster ride.’ They tell me it’s pretty bad on a bus.”
The segment of Baldwin Road on which the work will be performed is not being widened, but it is part of the overall road improvement project, Cyr said.
“We’re reconstructing the roadway where those depressions are,” she said. “This is part of the overall project, which is a continuation of the four-laning of Baldwin between Harrison (Avenue) and Minnesota (Avenue). That part will be four-laned.”
