{"id":39373,"date":"2016-03-18T13:09:01","date_gmt":"2016-03-18T17:09:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/?p=39373"},"modified":"2016-03-18T13:09:01","modified_gmt":"2016-03-18T17:09:01","slug":"fdot-makes-major-announcement-about-sr-82","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/2016\/03\/fdot-makes-major-announcement-about-sr-82\/","title":{"rendered":"FDOT Makes Major Announcement About SR-82"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-39374\" title=\"sr82_sign_03_03\" src=\"http:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/03\/sr82_sign_03_03.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"120\" height=\"141\" \/>FDOT plans to improve what many call one of Southwest Florida&#8217;s most dangerous roads.<\/p>\n<p>The Florida Department of Transportation met with county leaders Friday morning to announce Governor Rick Scott has signed off on a budget that includes more than $120 million to expand and fix SR-82.<\/p>\n<p>A stretch of the roadway is currently being worked on in Hendry County, but with this money, the department&#8217;s district secretary said three more busy sections will be able to be completed quicker than anticipated.<\/p>\n<p>Work in the Lee County stretch of the road could begin as soon as next year.<\/p>\n<p><!--more-->The district secretary, Billy Hathaway, hopes expanding the roadway will alleviate some of the issues causing wrecks.<\/p>\n<p>A lot of the crashes that we have are unfortunately due to people being impatient and passing at times when they shouldn&#8217;t pass so having multiple lanes will help to avoid some of those head-on crashes, Hathaway said during the news release.<\/p>\n<p>The $250 million project includes seven sections that will need to be improved.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>FDOT plans to improve what many call one of Southwest Florida&#8217;s most dangerous roads. The Florida Department of Transportation met with county leaders Friday morning to announce Governor Rick Scott&hellip; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":39374,"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\/39373"}],"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=39373"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39373\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/39374"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=39373"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=39373"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=39373"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}