{"id":87009,"date":"2025-07-23T22:10:17","date_gmt":"2025-07-23T22:10:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/87009\/"},"modified":"2025-07-23T22:10:17","modified_gmt":"2025-07-23T22:10:17","slug":"fdot-recommends-pedestrian-crosswalk-on-baymeadows-road-after-deadly-crash-prompts-traffic-study","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/87009\/","title":{"rendered":"FDOT recommends pedestrian crosswalk on Baymeadows Road after deadly crash prompts traffic study"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"dist__Box-sc-1fnzlkn-0 dist__TextBase-sc-1fnzlkn-3 bYFsJw cuqaEv article-text\"><strong>JACKSONVILLE, Fla. <\/strong> \u2013 A traffic study for Baymeadows Road prompted by a crash <a href=\"https:\/\/www.news4jax.com\/news\/local\/2025\/05\/17\/jso-on-the-scene-of-accident-with-multiple-victims-in-baymeadows\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer nofollow noopener\" title=\"https:\/\/www.news4jax.com\/news\/local\/2025\/05\/17\/jso-on-the-scene-of-accident-with-multiple-victims-in-baymeadows\/\">that killed a father and his 1-year-old son<\/a> has been completed, and changes are coming, City Councilman Joe Carlucci said Wednesday.<\/p>\n<p class=\"dist__Box-sc-1fnzlkn-0 dist__TextBase-sc-1fnzlkn-3 bYFsJw cuqaEv article-text\">Carlucci has been pushing for safety changes in the area since the May 16 crash that claimed the lives of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.news4jax.com\/news\/local\/2025\/05\/19\/father-killed-with-his-1-year-old-son-while-crossing-baymeadows-road-identified-as-bayview-elementary-math-coach\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer nofollow noopener\" title=\"https:\/\/www.news4jax.com\/news\/local\/2025\/05\/19\/father-killed-with-his-1-year-old-son-while-crossing-baymeadows-road-identified-as-bayview-elementary-math-coach\/\">Bayview Elementary School math teacher Mitchell Patch<\/a> and his son.<\/p>\n<p>Mitchell Patch and his 1-year-old son Everett were killed while crossing Baymeadows Road on May 16. (GoFundMe)<\/p>\n<p class=\"dist__Box-sc-1fnzlkn-0 dist__TextBase-sc-1fnzlkn-3 bYFsJw cuqaEv article-text\"><b>READ: <\/b><a href=\"https:\/\/www.documentcloud.org\/documents\/26026297-sr-152-at-goodbys-executive-drive-midblock-crossing-study-final\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer nofollow noopener\" title=\"https:\/\/www.documentcloud.org\/documents\/26026297-sr-152-at-goodbys-executive-drive-midblock-crossing-study-final\/\"><b>Full traffic study from FDOT on Baymeadows Road<\/b><\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"dist__Box-sc-1fnzlkn-0 dist__TextBase-sc-1fnzlkn-3 bYFsJw cuqaEv article-text\">\u201cThe main takeaway (from the study) is that we have taken the first big step in making this area safer for pedestrians,\u201d Carlucci said.<\/p>\n<p class=\"dist__Box-sc-1fnzlkn-0 dist__TextBase-sc-1fnzlkn-3 bYFsJw cuqaEv article-text\">The Florida Department of Transportation\u2019s evaluation of the Baymeadows Road at Goodby\u2019s Executive Drive (across from Wicked Barley Brewing Company) has been completed, and the report recommends that a Pedestrian Hybrid Beacon Crosswalk and refuge island be added.<\/p>\n<p class=\"dist__Box-sc-1fnzlkn-0 dist__TextBase-sc-1fnzlkn-3 bYFsJw cuqaEv article-text\">\u201cEngineers at FDOT will be working on design and construction costs for this project,\u201d Carlucci said in a release sent Wednesday. \u201cThere are more steps to take \u2013 but I want to reassure my constituents that these steps will be taken with urgency.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p class=\"dist__Box-sc-1fnzlkn-0 dist__TextBase-sc-1fnzlkn-3 bYFsJw cuqaEv article-text\">The images below are from the report and show where the crosswalk might be placed.<\/p>\n<p>Copyright 2025 by WJXT News4JAX &#8211; All rights reserved.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"JACKSONVILLE, Fla. \u2013 A traffic study for Baymeadows Road prompted by a crash that killed a father and&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":87010,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5136],"tags":[5229,3188,723,7310,80,314,67,586,132,5230,68,2969],"class_list":{"0":"post-87009","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-jacksonville","8":"tag-america","9":"tag-fl","10":"tag-florida","11":"tag-jacksonville","12":"tag-politics","13":"tag-traffic","14":"tag-united-states","15":"tag-united-states-of-america","16":"tag-unitedstates","17":"tag-unitedstatesofamerica","18":"tag-us","19":"tag-usa"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/114904840717622758","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/87009","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=87009"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/87009\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/87010"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=87009"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=87009"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=87009"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}