State Road 752 - Texar Drive

The first eastbound shield of SR 752 lies along Texar Drive between SR 295 (Fairfield Drive) and G Street. Three blocks of industrial businesses line the four lane road to U.S. 29.

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Nearing the intersection with E Street on SR 752 eastbound. Escambia County Road 443 is no longer listed on the FDOT Federal-Aid Road Report or included within the FDOT GIS files, yet signage alludes to the route that traveled south to U.S. 90/98 (Cerventes Street).

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E Street is the last of the Pensacola alphabet series of streets to reach this far north. E Street south connects with Baptist Hospital at Avery Street and ends at Cypress Street off Pensacola Bay.

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The intersection with U.S. 29 (Palafox Street) follows a Burlington Northern Railroad crossing on Texar Drive. U.S. 29 comprises a secondary arterial between Brent and the Pensacola central business district. The highway increases in traffic to the north, becoming one of the main commercial strips for the metropolitan area.
The shields for U.S. 29 pictured here were removed by 2006.

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SR 752 elevates to pass over a CSX Railroad line from U.S. 29 to the North Pensacola neighborhood.
This shield assembly was removed by 2007.

01/31/06

Lowering from the railroad bridge, Texar Drive passes under a pedestrian bridge to Brown Barge Middle School. Frontage roads loop under the bridge to connect SR 752 with Marcus Drive north and Guillemard Street south.

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Passing under the Interstate 110 mainline between Tarragona Street and SR 291 (Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. Drive) south. I-110 was widened to six lanes by 2008, and these overpasses were refurbished in the process.

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SR 291 utilizes a one way street couplet from Exit 4 of Interstate 110 southward to Wright Street near the Pensacola Civic Center. Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. Drive carries the state road southbound.

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Northbound SR 291 follows Davis Street one block to the east. The couplet merges to form a five to seven lane arterial (Davis Highway) from SR 295 (Fairfield Drive) north to Brent, Ferry Pass and U.S. 90 Alternate (Nine Mile Road) near the University of West Florida.

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SR 752 reenters the city limits of Pensacola east of SR 291 (Davis Street) north. Texar Drive expands into a four lane tree lined boulevard.

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Three blocks east of SR 291 is SR 289 (Ninth Avenue), the eastern terminus of SR 752.

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SR 289 consists of a four lane boulevard southbound to the intersection with U.S. 90 and 98 split. Northward the state road continues to Cordova Mall and Olive Road (former State Road 290).

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Texar Drive continues east from Ninth Avenue as a local roadway to 17th Avenue and the Bayou Texar area. A signal governs movements to 12th Avenue, which provides an alternate route north to Pensacola International Airport (PNS).

01/31/06

Texar Drive becomes State Road 752 west of Ninth Avenue (SR 289). The first shield stands at the corner of Torres Avenue.

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Three blocks west of SR 289 is the junction with SR 291 (Davis Street) north. SR 291 transitions from a residential through street to a commercial arterial nearby at Fairfield Drive (SR 295).

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SR 291 constitutes a busy commercial route through northeast Pensacola to Exit 13 of Interstate 110 and West Florida Hospital. The state road ends at U.S. 90 Alternate (Nine Mile Road), north of Ferry Pass.

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One block further west at Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. Drive (SR 291) south. SR 291 concludes at U.S. 98 Business (Gregory Street) outside downtown Pensacola.

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SR 752 leaves SR 291 and passes under six lanes of Interstate 110.

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A pedestrian bridge links Brown Barge Middle School with the North Pensacola neighborhood over Texar Drive. SR 752 enters a notch of Pensacola between Miller Street and U.S. 29.

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Drivers west on SR 752 ascend to cross over a CSX Railroad line before dropping to a signalized intersection with U.S. 29 (Palafox Street). Shields for U.S. 29 are not posted in either direction of the junction.

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E Street (former County Road 443) stems south from SR 752 (Texar Drive) to Baptist Hospital, U.S. 90/98 (Cerventes Street) and Cypress Street near the Pensacola Bayfront.

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