For Jacksonville’s Arlington residents, Merrill Road already presents its fair share of traffic headaches.
“You got the O’Reilly’s, the auto place … you got the Waffle House … you’ve got pizza place, you’ve got Wendy’s, so it’s already busy with the drive-thru traffic and stuff like that,” Arlington neighbor Roslyn Ross told Action News Jax Sunday.
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Now, from Monday, June 2, until August, that busy road will be restricted to just two lanes, with JEA set to begin work replacing the sewer in order to make way for a new pump station in the area.
Construction will begin by first closing the eastbound lanes and detouring traffic through the westbound lanes. Once work on that section is complete, the closure and detour will shift to the westbound lanes…