A well-traveled road in Daytona Beach is getting a facelift, and causing headaches.
Homeowners living along Orange Avenue in Daytona Beach are looking at a long road ahead of them filled with construction.
Construction may continue along that road all the way to the beachside for the next three years after construction started this week to repave a dilapidated road.
A headache for some ... and relief for others.
"It's kinda hard to get in and out of your house by the pavement that's messed up, whatever in and out of traffic," said Troy Wilson.
"Well it's quite a bit of inconvenience for people that are handicapped like I am. Like the side walk is like this and it’s not flat enough, you know. It needs to be a little flatter," added Gladys Patrick.
Some people realize the condition of the street warrants the repairs.
"It's needed cause the street was falling apart. Plus I take the bus it’s still not inconvenience to me," said John Boleschak.
This road project funded by Volusia County, FDOT and Daytona Beach is slated to be complete by 2016.
That's on the mainland.
Early next year, workers will start tearing down the 50-year-old Veteran's Memorial Bridge on Orange Avenue. Drivers, and pedestrians alike will not have access to the bridge until 2017.
While this bridge is under construction, people who want to get to the Jackie Robinson ball park or the city library will have to use the ISB bridge.
City and county leaders decided the bridge needed to be replaced after the drawbridge would continuously get stuck in the upright position, and parts for the drawbridge mechanism are no longer available.
A headache drivers will no longer have to deal with once the high rise bridge is completed.
The cost for repaving Orange Avenue is a little more than $17 million; the price tag for the new bridge will be $42 million.