Plans to widen U.S. 90 through downtown Milton are supposed to ease traffic, accommodate Santa Rosa County’s population growth over the last decades, and make way for future growth in the north Santa Rosa town.
Santa Rosa County’s population has grown 42 percent from 2000 to 2015 according to data from the Pensacola Metro Dashboard. That boom is straining infrastructure — including busy U.S. 90.
But Milton Mayor Wesley Meiss thinks the price of progress as proposed by the Florida Department of Transportation is too high.