One Lane. Seemingly No Workers. But Lots And Lots Of Traffic…
BOCA RATON, FL (BocaNewsNow.com) (Copyright © 2024 MetroDesk Media, LLC) — If you’re confused, angry, and frustrated about the single lane in effect on Clint Moore Road between Lyons and Jog, you’re not alone. BocaNewsNow.com has received a huge number of complaints about the cones reducing traffic to one lane in each direction on an extremely busy thoroughfare. Among the questions — which we’re cleaning up by removing the expletives — “where are the f-ing workers,” “where are the m-f workers,” and “why are all these cones blocking traffic when there’s seemingly no one doing any work?”
We heard your questions and reached out to the Palm Beach County Engineering and Public Works Department which always responds promptly. We kept our question clean and learned that the lane reductions are in effect as workers (at least in theory) are modifying the existing median. The work is only supposed to be conducted between 9 a.m. and 3 p.m., Monday through Friday, according to the county, which issued the permit to the contracted work crew.
Many readers, however, suggest that cones are being placed well before 9 a.m. and are still in place well after 3 p.m. We followed up with Palm Beach County officials who told us they will make sure the contractor is following the rules of the permit. If you see do see cones in place after 3 p.m. or so, please carefully take a photo and send it to us at news@bocanewsnow.com, or text 561-576-NEWS. This stretch of Clint Moore is right in front of St. Andrews Country Club, and is used by a huge number of people throughout the day not just for east-west travel, but to access a number of public and private schools in the area.
It’s unclear how long this project is supposed to take. We do know that the traffic pattern change was approved on November 25th, and the construction company is Arrow Asphalt and Concrete. Their telephone number is 305-668-8686, should you have any questions about the workers who may or may not appear to be present while the cones are in place.
The fact that they are doing this as ongoing work on Atlantic Ave has turned it into a parking lot makes it a horrible time for this so called work to be approved on the next alternate route running east to west : Clint Moore Road.
If the County Engineers were elected, they would have been voted out over thirty years ago. Even since George T. Webb, who’s responsible for turning Palm Beach County into a giant parking lot, retired and deflected the blame elsewhere, it seems even when traffic isn’t bad and you’re not stuck behind a motorist going at under forty miles an hour on a fifty-five miles an hour road, leave it to poorly programmed traffic signals, faulty street design, broken streetlights, missing signs, bridges stuck open, and roadblocks to make everything worse. Case in point, those sad and pathetic “improvements” at Atlantic Avenue and Lyons Road that took an eternity to complete. Why don’t Collier, Lee, Sarasota, Pinellas, and Hillsborough Counties have the same traffic woes, despite being similar to Palm Beach County and growing exponentially? NEVER vote for a penny tax again. The revenue WILL be squandered.
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