{"id":43775,"date":"2019-07-10T12:46:59","date_gmt":"2019-07-10T16:46:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/?p=43775"},"modified":"2019-07-10T12:47:17","modified_gmt":"2019-07-10T16:47:17","slug":"the-road-diet-is-over-the-restriping-of-joel-blvd-is-canceled-two-new-traffic-lights-to-be-installed-instead","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/2019\/07\/the-road-diet-is-over-the-restriping-of-joel-blvd-is-canceled-two-new-traffic-lights-to-be-installed-instead\/","title":{"rendered":"The road diet is over, the restriping of Joel Blvd is canceled &#8212; Two new Traffic lights to be installed instead"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1140\" height=\"500\" src=\"https:\/\/i1.wp.com\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/07\/amber-traffic-lights-hero.jpg?fit=1024%2C449&amp;ssl=1\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-43776\" srcset=\"https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/07\/amber-traffic-lights-hero.jpg 1140w, https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/07\/amber-traffic-lights-hero-300x132.jpg 300w, https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/07\/amber-traffic-lights-hero-768x337.jpg 768w, https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/07\/amber-traffic-lights-hero-1024x449.jpg 1024w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1140px) 100vw, 1140px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>Lee County Commissioner Frank Mann attended the Community Council&#8217;s\nmonthly meeting to give an update on the Joel Boulevard restriping plan and the\naddition of traffic lights on the busy roadway.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>&#8220;After hearing the plan from the Lee County Department\nof Transportation I got a better understanding of their proposed restriping.\nThe goal was to reduce Joel Boulevard to two lanes with a turn lane down the\nmiddle. Then there would be no way for drivers to go faster than the person in\nfront of them. The plan was met with some resistance so for now it&#8217;s on the\nback burner,&#8221; Mann explained.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Mann also announced that while the restriping plan was on\nhold, the county does have a plan to install two traffic lights, one would fall\nunder this year&#8217;s budget one next year.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>&#8220;In the last five years there have been around 50 accidents on Joel Boulevard, three of them were fatalities. That&#8217;s just not acceptable. While deciding the next step for Joel, the county plans to install two red lights. The first one will be at the busiest corner off Joel, at 6th Street, near the 7-Eleven. The second one will be close to Country Club Drive,&#8221; Mann said.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Lee County Commissioner Frank Mann attended the Community Council&#8217;s monthly meeting to give an update on the Joel Boulevard restriping plan and the addition of traffic lights on the busy&hellip; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":43776,"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\/43775"}],"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=43775"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43775\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/43776"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=43775"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=43775"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=43775"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}