BY MARK J. CRAWFORD
Telegraph Editor
STARKE — Currently scheduled to begin the night of Thursday, March 24, all eastbound traffic on State Road 100 east of U.S. 301 will be detoured because of railroad overpass construction.
Traffic headed east will need to go south on U.S. 301 to Southeast 144th Street (Hazen Street, between IHOP and VyStar Credit Union.) There traffic will go east to S.R. 100 where it can turn left toward Starke or right toward Keystone Heights.
The same detour will apply to large trucks on S.R. 100 that need to access the State Road 230 truck route.
This will not be a short-term detour for some. Regular-sized vehicles headed eastbound toward Keystone will be able to return to their normal route following the March 24 traffic switch, but oversized loads and large vehicles will continue using the detour through early spring 2023.
When the overpass is completed at the end of the second construction phase, all eastbound traffic on S.R. 100 will be shifted onto the overpass.
Westbound traffic on S.R. 100 is not expected to be impacted on the night of March 24 with the exception of some sudden stops and delays.
