Whiteview Parkway is about to be a construction zone for the next nine months. It will also be unrecognizable along most of its 3.4 miles as crews begin the reconstruction and repaving of the road, adding numerous turn lanes, eliminating or changing the look of the median, and extending the foot path the entire length of the road, from Belle Terre Parkway to U.S. 1.
The Palm Coast City Council approved a 6.67 million construction contract Tuesday, though the cost of the entire project is closer to $10 million since it was first conceived in 2018 and designed and redesigned since.
The first segment from U.S. 1 to White Mill is about 0.85 miles, with a four-lane divided highway 120 feet wide without sidewalks on either side of the road. From White Mill to Pritchard, it’s about 2.65 miles, still with a 120-ft. right away, but only as a two-lane highway. There’s a 12-ft. shared-use path on the south side of the road.
In 2018 the plan was to reduce the entire length of Whiteview to a two-lane road, eliminating the four-lane segment, adding broad shared-use paths for pedestrians and cyclists and building a Linear Park-like green zone along the road. (See: “Palm Coast Planning To Reduce All Whiteview Parkway to 2 Lanes For Footpath and Safety.”)
Residents didn’t like that proposal. The city dropped it while preserving plans for a multi-use path extending the length of the road. The public was more approving of the revised plan, which kept the four-lane segment at the west end but added and improved turn lanes.
“The project aims to enhance safety, traffic flow and accessibility along the Whiteview corridor by widening the roadway for turn lane installations and modifying median access,” Carl Cote, the city’s director of stormwater and engineering. “The project also includes sidewalk and shared use path extensions and a flashing beacon installation, which will enhance pedestrian and vehicle safety.” The shared-use path will be extended the full length of the road.
The City Council ratified a $1.6 million state grant for the initial phase of construction a year ago, covering items relevant to the state Department of Transportation. Last November the city bid out the fuller construction phase. Daytona Beach-based Halifax Paving was the low bidder, at $6.67 million. Much of that money will be drawn from the city’s street improvement fund, which is part of the general fund, with the $1.6 million state grant offsetting the local cost.
Turn lanes will be added at Pine Tree Drive, Whippoorwill Drive, White Mill Drive, Wood Ash Lane and Rolling Sands Drive (where the tree-lined median will be sacrificed to turning lanes). Ravenwood Drive will also be re-engineered.
“This is a very traffic impactful area,” Cote said. “There’s been a death here. There’s been lots of accidents at Ravenwood, being only a two-lane road segments, so there’ll be multiple turn lanes added here.” Those will include a westbound turning lane and an eastbound turning lane, and from Ravenwood, separate turning lanes onto Whiteview.
A 22-year-old woman was killed there in 2015 when a school bus collided with a car at the intersection. The school bus driver was subsequently cited for carelessness, having violated the victim’s right of way.
There’ll be a re-engineered median at Palm Coast Bible Church, reducing three cut-throughs to one, enabling U-turns while reducing cut-throughs to nearby neighborhood streets like Woodbury Drive. Many trees like laurel oaks, which damage asphalt, will be replaced with newer trees.
Will says
Here’s a thought – why not spend that money on the water/sewer upgrades, cancel the 36% rate increase imposed on everyone, instead of wasting all that money on a road that only a few use and that has little congestion issues!! That would good governance!
Tadpole says
$10 million will pay a lot of roads that need to be paved in Palm Coast.
Another waste of taxpayers money 🤪
Joseph Barand says
White View has nowhere near the volume of traffic that Old Kings Road South carries on a daily, let’s see the numbers. OKR special taxes have been collected from over 15 years, this money has been siphoned off for years to fund projects like Rec Centers, City Hall, neighborhood signs, benches and every other thing except what it was initially intended for. Time for a DOGE type solution because elected officals have failed miserably in doing their jobs.
David Meeks says
Why? Turn lanes will not do anything. Stop signs would. Save money & just install 3 of them. That would also slow the idiots doing 60.
Greg says
Houses on top of housing! Palm coast is destroyed! Thanks town council
Truth says
Murikkka = roadways are more important than actual humans.
Land of no turn signals says says
DOGE is very much needed in Flagler county including the school district for investigation of wasteful spending and no show jobs.
Mad says
Meanwhile my most recent water bill was 200 dollars. More than my electric bill. This is insane
Mike B says
Please close off Woodbury drive with a cul da sac. It is being used as a thru road instead of white mill road. Sidewalks would be great also because the road is too narrow to walk down, and the constant truck traffic is destroying our road and mailboxes.
Jack says
I come here for the stupid comments and I’m never disappointed.
Cmon man says
Can we finish the turn lane on SR100 onto Seminole woods before we start another project?
celia pugliese says
Impact fees used to dig out and beautify for development curve appeal and existing beautiful WVparkway?. Isn’t that impact fees are to be used for needed additional infrastructure given growth? How come this time with venal excuses is use in an existing perfect ITT designed existing White View Parkway? See these developers associated administrators, make believe our elected whatever their purposes are to benefit them buddies developers and move around millions from different designated accounts based on unaceptable excuses. Exactly like the uneeded repaving of Seminole Woods Parkway recently!
We have serious priorities other than Mr. Carl Cote’s presented projects. Millions spent im 13 acres pond by Leaver way, expansion of the utility south of Rte 100 in OKR to benefit Radiant…meanwhile our sewer plant 1 outdated and overloaded get cited by FDEP..Projects for Citation rd and what about OKR north widening and turn lanes, delayed so far 20 years? These questions need to be asked and council needs to stop yessing this nonsense. The fatalities are an excuse as we have them in all our major roads. Just in Belle Terre two within days and are we going to dig it out and rebuild over that? Same with PC parkway.