{"id":25477,"date":"2013-08-14T21:40:08","date_gmt":"2013-08-15T01:40:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/?p=25477"},"modified":"2013-08-14T21:40:08","modified_gmt":"2013-08-15T01:40:08","slug":"more-road-paving-coming-to-lehigh-acres","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/2013\/08\/more-road-paving-coming-to-lehigh-acres\/","title":{"rendered":"More Road Paving <br>Coming To Lehigh Acres"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft  wp-image-25478\" title=\"paver\" src=\"http:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/08\/paver-300x233.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"210\" height=\"163\" srcset=\"https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/08\/paver-300x233.png 300w, https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/08\/paver.png 417w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 210px) 100vw, 210px\" \/>Residents are frustrated and fed up. Miles of miles residential roadway in Lehigh Acres have gone neglected for a long time. The roads are barely paved, creating hazards for drivers and their cars.<\/p>\n<p>Now Lee County is working on delivering some relief.<\/p>\n<p>An annual $1 million grant will help pave 73 streets in Lehigh Acres. <a href=\"http:\/\/www.leegov.com\/gov\/dept\/dot\/Documents\/Countywide%20Resurfacing\/2013\/1-fy-2013BidItems.pdf\">Click here to see the 2013<\/a> list. <a href=\"http:\/\/www.leegov.com\/gov\/dept\/dot\/Documents\/Lehigh%20Resurfacing\/2014\/FY2014Lehigh%20Map.pdf\">Click here to see the 2014<\/a> list<\/p>\n<p><!--more-->&#8220;When it rained it would create ruts and made it unsafe to ride. It also damaged the paint to my vehicles,&#8221; said Lehigh Acres resident Ken Keehler.<\/p>\n<p>Keehler called the county time and time again &#8212; his road was paved earlier this year.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;It was a pleasant surprise to see the asphalt pavers,&#8221; Keehler said.<\/p>\n<p>As a motorcycle rider who dealt with dents and dings from loose rock for years, now he&#8217;s free to ride to a happier home.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;It increases the property value and makes it a more desirable location,&#8221; Keehler said.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Residents are frustrated and fed up. Miles of miles residential roadway in Lehigh Acres have gone neglected for a long time. The roads are barely paved, creating hazards for drivers&hellip; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":25478,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[57,32],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25477"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=25477"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25477\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/25478"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=25477"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=25477"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=25477"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}