Alachua County has 34 road and trail projects worth $57.6 million in design, led by a $13.2 million Archer Braid Trail extension. Fifty projects are finished and five are under way.

Alachua County has 34 road, sidewalk and trail projects worth $57.6 million in design. The largest is a $13.2 million extension of the Archer Braid Trail toward Kanapaha.

The county set out the figures in its fourth-quarter roads update for the 2026 budget year, published Nov. 3. It covers the county’s 10-year Transportation Capital Improvement Program, which the county describes as a $250 million commitment by the County Commission.

Where the program stands

The county said 50 projects totaling $56.9 million have been finished since voters approved the Wild Spaces & Public Places sales tax. That work covered more than 120 lane miles of road and nine new crosswalk or signal projects.

Phase Projects Value
Completed 50 $56.9 million
Under construction 5 $11.7 million
In design (pre-construction) 34 $57.6 million

Ten of the 34 design projects were added in the last quarter, the county said.

Bar chart of Alachua County's road program by phase: $56.9 million completed across 50 projects, $11.7 million under construction across five, and $57.6 million in design across 34.
Alachua County's road program by phase. Chart by Gainesville Journal
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The biggest projects in design

The county’s release named eight design projects. Its pre-construction project sheet lists all 34. The largest is one the release left out: the Archer Braid Trail extension to Kanapaha, at $13.2 million.

The top 10 on the sheet:

Project Value
Archer Braid Trail, Kanapaha extension $13.2 million
County Road 235 (project 1) $6.1 million
County Road 235 (project 2) $4.3 million
Northeast County Road 234 $3.7 million
Holden Park Road $3.4 million
NW 98th Street $3.1 million
Kincaid Loop Trail $3.1 million
NW 39th Avenue $2.9 million
Kincaid Loop roads $2.5 million
NW 83rd Street (project 1) $2.3 million

Further down the sheet are several projects on roads Gainesville drivers use every day:

  • Archer Road four-laning, $2.2 million
  • SW 20th Avenue complete streets design, about $1.4 million
  • four NW 16th Avenue projects, about $1.7 million together
  • three more NW 83rd Street projects, $439,000, $439,000 and $422,000
  • NW 76th Boulevard, $683,000
  • NW 51st Street, $422,000
  • NW 76th Drive and West University Avenue, $334,000

The sheet prints the SW 20th Avenue design figure as “$1.4K.” We read it as $1.4 million, because that is the only value that makes the sheet’s 34 projects add up to its $57.6 million total.

The county gave no start dates for any of the design projects in this update.

What is under construction now

Five projects worth $11.7 million are being built, according to the county’s construction sheet:

  • NW 122nd Street, $4.5 million
  • two segments of Northeast County Road 1471, $3.1 million and $1.9 million
  • a $2 million avenue project
  • County Road 231, $268,000

The county’s release calls the $2 million project “Northwest 110th Avenue.” Its project sheet lists it as “NE 101st Ave.”

What was finished

The completed-projects sheet lists all 50. The two largest are NW 23rd Avenue, at $11.6 million, and NE/NW 53rd Avenue, at $8.5 million.

The county said these were finished in the last quarter:

  • NW 202nd Street, $2.8 million
  • Fort Clarke Boulevard, $2 million
  • SW 122nd Street, $1.8 million
  • SW 20th Avenue sidewalk, $1.7 million
  • the County Road 235 and Newberry Lane roundabout, $1.5 million
  • NW 39th Avenue, $688,000
  • NW 128th Road, $110,000
  • Hammock Oaks subdivision, $80,000

The release printed the NW 39th Avenue figure as “$688.” The project sheet gives $688,000.

What it means for you