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Currently connection television division

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a perilous County Communications. We

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all know that road construction can create
traffic problems but there is one new

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road project currently underway that will
solve traffic problems the Keystone road

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project between us nineteen and East
Lake Road is bringing some long awaited

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improvements to the major east west chord
or in North Pinellas County and reporter

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Mark Karr he'll take us on the jobsite to
show us the project's benefits. When it

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comes to road construction projects the
question on everyone's mind is how is this

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going to affect me the answer of course
depends on your time frame and your frame

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of mind. And what was once one of the
most rural areas in Pinellas County the

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Keystone road project brings

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a much needed upgrade to an area that
experienced tremendous growth in the past

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couple years and it's designed to
accommodate future growth that necessary.

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Anticipated to be completed in the summer
of two thousand and thirteen the project

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will deliver

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a superior roadway that doubles the current
capacity of Keystone road over the

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three mile stretch between us nineteen and
the snake road it is also bringing some

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long awaited improvements for bicyclists
and protest trains but the project is

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still in its early stages reduce travel
times and increase safety inconvenience are

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less than three years away. Or Currently
we're in the stages of doing the clearing

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driving which means taking all the trees
down getting all the routes out of the

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ground and the Marquis which means getting
the organic soils out of the way so that

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we can build the road we start doing
some of the earth work we're in the

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preliminary stages of installing from the
water line or the major new twelve inch

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wireline that's going to run long north
of the road from nice like all the way up

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to Mellon once we get the twelve inch water
in we've got thirty six inch water main

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It will start relocating obviously

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a bigger pipe it will be more visible when
appetite sitting on the job you'll see

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a lot more storm water pipe going in and
that is as we move through the end of

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October into November you may see some
temporary paving started to get built but I

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would expect it will be after the first
of the year before you start seeing lane

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changes and that type of thing will mostly
work around the existing lines between

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now and then for this project as with
most major projects there's more going on

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there what meets the eye a lot of what
we're doing is underground This is

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a major utility quarter it's the first
place north of Lake Tarpon that things go

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through all your major water lines telephone
cables power lines everything else

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runs through this corridor and

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a lot of the work that's going on now
and will be for the next six months is

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relocating a lot of
those utilities already

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a busy stretch of road patients. Awareness
are central for maintaining safety and

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dealing with the temporary delays associated
with construction work motor survived

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to stay alert for reduced speed limits and
tighter driving conditions when moving

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to the works in. This corridor is very
heavily congested the average annual daily

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traffic is around twenty
five thousand cars

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a day so we obviously have to widen
this cord or move the proposals

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a four lane divided roadway
into structural be in place for

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a future six lane if it's ever needed the
sales trail will make the connection from

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its current terminus at Melun street and
connect it over to overseas like road so

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users can go all the way
down John chestnut will have

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a trail spur that comes off the rails trail
to go to US nineteen so the pedestrians

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can also access to shopping complex over
there will have sidewalks the Sylvie's on

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both sides of the road which is desperately
needed on this quarter because there

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are no pedestrian facilities on this
corridor as part of responsible shortage of

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growth for Pinellas County the work also
includes improvements to storm water

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management and drainage as well as enhanced
means to wetlands and water quality

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features that serve daily to maintain
and improve our local environment while

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beautifying a corridor that serves as

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a major point of entry and critical
evacuation route for entire county for inside

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tell us I'm more call him. Thanks Mark that
some great information and information

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is the key to intelligent transportation
if you'd like to learn more about the

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Keystone road winding project
there are several ways you can

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a special website is
being created as well as

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a project hotline and residents who live
in and around the project work sell and

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can also expect periodic project updates
delivered right to their doorstep for all

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the latest information on the
Keystone road widening visit

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a project's website at Keystone road dot
com or call the project hotline at four

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five three three five three five.