You hear change doesn’t happen overnight, but Misty Bauer doesn’t remember the last time traffic clogged so quickly in Green Cove Springs.
“It’s absolutely absurd, I can barely get out of my neighborhood now,” Bauer said.
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Bauer lives in a neighborhood off County Road 315, right down the road from where Clay County just started a two-month closure at the CSX railroad tracks at County Road 209. The work started on Monday and there has been such a strange change in traffic, Bauer took a video of it this morning that she sent to Action News Jax.
“I tried leaving the house early, it didn’t make much of a difference,” Bauer said. “I took my son to school and got him there on time, but just getting back it took me about 40 minutes, and his school is about 5 minutes down the road.”
The road is now closed off where County Road 315 meets County Road 209, creating a 1.5-mile detour taking drivers back to U.S. 17. Bauer said it’s causing the worst traffic she’s ever seen in all her years living in Green Cove Springs.