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Q: Why can’t the county put street signs up at the intersection of Immokalee Road and U.S. 41 — the kind that hang up with the lights so you can see them? I had out-of-town friends who drove north on 41 all the way to Bonita Springs looking for Immokalee Road! Then, I noticed it is very poorly marked and realized how that could easily happen when you’re not familiar with the area.
— Linda Melton, Naples
A. The Florida Department of Transportation is working on it.
Street name signs were removed from the steel support cables during the rash of hurricanes three years ago, said Bob Tipton, director of Collier County’s Traffic Operations Department. The signs created too much wind loading, causing the steel cables supporting the signals to fail, Tipton said. FDOT is working to provide internally illuminated street name signs that will be mounted on arms attached to the steel poles supporting the signal cables, he said.
For now, ground-mounted signs in both directions give motorists some advance notice indicating “Immokalee Road Next Signal,” Tipton said.
Q: For those of us summering up North would you please describe the present state of the re-construction of Vandy between Airport-Pulling and Collier Boulevard?
— Paul Wood, Hampton, N.H.
A: That’s the first time I’ve heard Vanderbilt Beach Road referred to as Vandy, which you probably will be happy to hear is seeing progress.
“The contractor had fallen behind schedule due to unexpected underground utility work but crews have completed three through lanes both eastbound and westbound between Airport-Pulling Road and Livingston Road,” said Eileen O’Grady, a spokeswoman for the Collier County Transportation Services Division.
But, lately, work has been progressing rapidly, O’Grady said.
“Between I-75 and Collier Boulevard, all lanes are substantially complete and paved, but not yet opened to traffic,” she said. “The contractor is now working on the section between I-75 and Livingston Road and completion of the project is expected in December 2008.”
Q: When will construction begin on The Children’s Museum of Naples on Livingston Road, adjacent to the North Collier Regional Park?
— Katherine Ferrari, Naples
A: The museum’s board and task force hope to break ground soon after the first of the year, with an opening near the end of 2010, said museum spokeswoman Kim Minarich.
The private, not-for-profit cultural institution will lease its location on the park grounds from the county. The 30,000-square-foot museum “will feature 10 spectacularly designed, child-scaled exhibits to invite sensory and intellectual exploration,” according to the museum’s Web site, www.cmon.org.
Correction
I want to make sure everybody sees the correction to last week’s column concerning bike riding on Fifth Avenue South sidewalks.
The city of Naples prohibits the riding of bicycles, skateboards, roller skates and in-line skates on sidewalks in business districts, such as Fifth Avenue South, and elsewhere designated by signs. Segway use is not prohibited by the ordinance.
Tim Aten is chief online editor of the Daily News. E-mail questions with your name and city of residence to intheknow@naplesnews.com.
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Linda Melton of Naples.
Don't expect much from the DOT anytime soon Linda. As you've probably noticed over the last several years the road construction is still ongoing and has been for several years so the signs informing motorists ( mostly tourists!) where the hell they are and where the hell they are going are simply the least of DOT's worries. They would rather worry about more inprtant things, like keeping the medians pretty for all the tourists, and putting up green traffic signal bars that peeled after a year and have needed constant repiar since they were installed.
Don't hold your breath waiting...
#1 Posted by Jadip811 on August 20, 2008 at 5:21 a.m. (Suggest removal)
Give slow guests better directions or buy them a car GPS. Or better yet you visit them for a change.
#2 Posted by suntan on August 20, 2008 at 8:31 a.m. (Suggest removal)
Speaking of signs, why can't they have better signs to and from the new airport?
I don't know how foreign tourists do it.
As many of you know, I run a small beer hall from my home here in Pelican Marsh and many German friends of mine have trouble.
#3 Posted by haroldzimmermanhq on August 20, 2008 at 12:02 p.m. (Suggest removal)
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