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Ridgemoor residents press commission to alter FDOT plan for Brooker Creek bridge replacement
Summary
Dozens of Ridgemoor and Tarpon Woods residents urged the Pinellas County Board of County Commissioners to force more safety guarantees and shorter construction timelines for the Brooker Creek bridge replacement, warning the planned single‑lane staging could strand about 3,000 people and delay emergency responders during storms.
Dozens of residents from Ridgemoor and nearby Tarpon Woods told the Pinellas County Board of County Commissioners on Oct. 21 that the Florida Department of Transportation and county Public Works plan to replace the Brooker Creek bridge on Ridgemoor Boulevard would create an unacceptable safety risk and prolonged traffic bottlenecks.
Those concerns were raised during the public‑comment period by homeowners, volunteer emergency workers and a retired civil engineer who said the project as described could leave their neighborhoods cut off during storms and add minutes to response times for fire and emergency medical services.
The complaints centered on a construction approach described to residents in project briefings: demolishing one of the two existing lanes and using the remaining lane for alternating two‑way traffic while the bridge is rebuilt. “We believe the current replacement plan will not only create an unmanageable bottleneck of traffic for two years, but it will also create potential risks…
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