{"id":31254,"date":"2014-06-13T18:15:27","date_gmt":"2014-06-13T22:15:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/?p=31254"},"modified":"2014-06-13T18:15:27","modified_gmt":"2014-06-13T22:15:27","slug":"funding-hurdle-cleared-in-homestead-road","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/2014\/06\/funding-hurdle-cleared-in-homestead-road\/","title":{"rendered":"Funding Hurdle Cleared In Homestead Road"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-31255\" title=\"Homestead rd\" src=\"http:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/06\/Homestead-rd-300x175.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"175\" srcset=\"https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/06\/Homestead-rd-300x175.jpg 300w, https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/06\/Homestead-rd.jpg 363w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/>Funding is now available to expand Homestead Road in Lehigh Acres to four lanes from Sunrise Boulevard to Alabama Road.<\/p>\n<p>The project has been in the works for years but there was insufficient funding last year for the $13.5 million project to proceed.<\/p>\n<p>Now, funding from Lee County Department of Transportation is available.<\/p>\n<p>Residents said safety is currently a big issue with the roadway.<\/p>\n<p>Widening the road would straighten out some of the turns, which may decrease crashes such as three major incidents that occurred during the past three months.<\/p>\n<p>Lee County Commissioners will discuss the project Tuesday, including discussion of condemnation of parts of the area to move forward.<\/p>\n<p>The project would begin in 2015, with completion expected by 2017.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Funding is now available to expand Homestead Road in Lehigh Acres to four lanes from Sunrise Boulevard to Alabama Road. The project has been in the works for years but&hellip; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":31255,"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\/31254"}],"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=31254"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31254\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/31255"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=31254"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=31254"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=31254"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}