Dozens of people have signed petitions opposing a state transportation agency's plans to move a traffic light at Florida A1A and 36th Avenue South in Jacksonville Beach.
The light is part of a complicated $10 million project on the heavily traveled A1A that the Florida Department of Transportation will begin this summer. Work on the Jacksonville Beach segment of A1A is expected to begin by September.
Opponents said moving the traffic light from 36th to 37th Avenue South will endanger and inconvenience people.
The project also includes the installation of a new traffic light at Osceola Avenue and A1A, rebuilding 25th Avenue South directly across A1A from Osceola and removing parking along its southern border so it looks more like a through street and removing the light at 22nd Avenue South to reduce accidents caused because it sits back-to-back with another light at 23rd Avenue.
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