The Parker Avenue Rehabilitation project spans from Forest Hill Boulevard to Nottingham Boulevard, approximately 1.3 miles located in the southern part of the City of West Palm Beach. Located in the Dreher’s Park Neighborhood Association, Parker Avenue is a primary safe route to school for many children. The project will complete a multimodal network connection from Forest Hill Boulevard to Southern Boulevard providing complete streets. The typical sections will include two multiuse paths, milling and resurfacing, signing, pavement markings, irrigation, landscaping, drainage improvements pedestrian lighting. All these improvements are within the recommendations from the city’s Mobility Plan and Bicycle Master Plan. The project will also connect Forest Hill Community High School, Dreher Park, Hillcrest Memorial Park, Palmetto Elementary School and local businesses at the intersection of Southern Boulevard and Parker Avenue.
Community tends to get impatient when things don’t get done as fast as we think they should. If any level of government is involved, we tend to blame bureaucracy and bureaucratic red tape. Road improvements sometimes take longer than we think they should, but sometimes that is simply due to all the complex steps involved in getting the project done. A construction project doesn’t just occur because somebody thought it was a good idea. Often a lot of background work has gone on. For example, if it is a safety project, there has already been an extensive analysis of accident data and a possible field review of the location.
