City to Upgrade Power Lines Along Centerville Road Starting May 26

City to Upgrade Power Lines Along Centerville Road Starting May 26

Temporary Detours Planned

May 15, 2026

As part of its ongoing commitment to provide best-in-class services, the City of Tallahassee will begin construction on an electric infrastructure enhancement project along Centerville Road on May 26. This work will further strengthen the system's resilience against severe weather and improve reliability.

Work includes replacing the power lines and poles along Centerville Road from Hodges Drive to roughly Potts Road. As part of this project, power lines will be upgraded to a stronger, tree-coded cable, ideal for the canopy road environment along Centerville Road. The project has been engineered so that no planned outages or tree removal are anticipated. The Electric Utility will perform the work in phases to reduce the extent and duration of road closures, and work will occur at night where possible. Efforts will also be made to minimize impacts from construction noise and nighttime work zone lighting. City Electric crews will perform the work. To create a safe work zone, Centerville Road will be closed in four phases, with only portions of the roadway closed at a time during construction. Emergency vehicles will always be allowed through the work zone, but regular traffic will be detoured. All detours will be clearly marked to route traffic around the construction zone. Access to private property will be maintained.

The first phase of construction will be between Hodges Drive and just north of Betton Road from May 26 to June 16. To reduce traffic impacts, work will take place overnight from 8 p.m. to 5 a.m. seven days a week. There will be no traffic access except for emergency vehicles within the work zone. Local access only will be permitted up to the work zone. A detour map is available at Talgov.com/Centerville. Regular traffic will be detoured as follows:

• Northbound traffic on Centerville Road / Magnolia Drive will be detoured at Seventh Avenue.
• Southbound traffic on Centerville Road will be detoured at Blair Stone Road.
• Eastbound traffic on Betton Road / Bradford Road will be detoured at Thomasville Road.

View a larger, printable version of this map here.

Pending no unforeseen circumstances or severe weather delays, the rest of the project schedule is as follows:

• The second phase of construction will be between Betton Road and Trescott Drive from mid-to-late June to mid-July during daytime hours, 9 a.m. to 4 p.m.
• The third phase of construction will be between Trescott Drive and Woodgate Way from mid-July to mid-August during daytime hours, 9 a.m. to 4 p.m.
• The fourth phase of construction will be between Woodgate Way and roughly Potts Road (near Capital Health Plan on Centerville Road) from late September to early November during nighttime hours, 8 p.m. to 5 a.m.

Over the last 10 years, the City's Electric Utility has implemented other system enhancements on and near the corridor. Completing this project will help meet the system's modern operational needs, further strengthen the system against severe weather and create new redundancies and efficiencies to improve reliability.

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