The Florida-Alabama Transportation Planning Organization voted unanimously at its February 11, 2026 meeting to amend its Transportation Improvement Program in a way that reduces the scope of a nearly $1 million road project on North Hayne Street in Pensacola. The vote, Resolution FL-AL 26-03, changed the project's official limits, cutting the planned improvement corridor from 0.459 miles to 0.27 miles.
The original project description covered North Hayne Street from East Cervantes Street to East Blount Street, a continuous run of just under half a mile through the northwestern edge of Pensacola's Brownsville neighborhood. The revised limits run from East Gonzalez Street to East Blount Street, dropping the southern section between Cervantes and Gonzalez from the project scope. The total project cost remains $918,634. The project is identified in FDOT's system under Financial Project ID 4568692.
North Hayne Street is a significant corridor. It is one of the primary north-south surface streets in northwest Pensacola, running through Brownsville, a neighborhood that has historically received less capital infrastructure investment than comparable areas of the city, and one that the City of Pensacola has been directing attention toward with recent projects including the $7.8 million Fricker Resource Center renovation and the Legion Field to Global Learning Academy sidewalk connection. Hayne Street feeds commuter and school traffic toward the Navy corridor to the south and connects to Pensacola's broader street grid at multiple key intersections.
FDOT District Three planning staff Bryant Paulk and Christy Johnson presented the amendment to the TPO board. The motion passed unanimously. The reason for the scope change, whether driven by cost, right-of-way issues, design considerations, or phasing decisions, was not detailed in the publicly available agenda materials as of publication. A public records request to FDOT District Three would clarify the rationale.
The same TPO meeting approved a separate resolution, FL-AL 26-02, adding $25,000 to fund a lighting project on SR 727/SR 295, Fairfield Drive, between North 65th Avenue and West Highland Drive. That project is substantially smaller in scale but addresses a specific safety need on a corridor that has generated pedestrian and cyclist safety concerns in the past.
The FL-AL TPO also approved its 2026 Beach Traffic Monitoring Proposal at the February meeting, a $62,860 initiative through DRMP, with Escambia County responsible for $41,906.67 and Santa Rosa County for $20,953.33. The monitoring program tracks seasonal traffic patterns on the beach access corridors, data that feeds FDOT and TPO planning for peak-season capacity management. The next TPO meeting is May 13, 2026, at 9 a.m. at the Bayview Community Center, 2001 E. Lloyd Street, Pensacola, FL 32503.