{"id":44052,"date":"2019-07-31T18:05:19","date_gmt":"2019-07-31T22:05:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/?p=44052"},"modified":"2019-07-31T18:05:41","modified_gmt":"2019-07-31T22:05:41","slug":"lee-county-considers-adding-safety-measures-to-joel-blvd","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/2019\/07\/lee-county-considers-adding-safety-measures-to-joel-blvd\/","title":{"rendered":"Lee County considers adding safety measures to Joel Blvd"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\"><figure class=\"aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"597\" height=\"416\" src=\"https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/07\/Joel-blvd-sign.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-44053\" srcset=\"https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/07\/Joel-blvd-sign.png 597w, https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/07\/Joel-blvd-sign-300x209.png 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 597px) 100vw, 597px\" \/><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p>With fast drivers and a lack of traffic lights, people who\nlive along Joel Blvd. in Lehigh Acres said the road is dangerous and something\nneeds to be done.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Lee County Commissioner Frank Mann (Dist 5-R) stated at the last Lehigh Acres Community Council meeting that the plan called the \u201croad diet\u201d going from 4 lanes to 3 lanes)\u00a0was off the LEE DOT playbook and that new traffic lights would be going in. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>But according to Betsy Clayton Lee County Government Communications\nDirector by email stated, the plan for the road diet (going from 4 lanes to 3\nlanes) is being re-evaluated by Lee County DOT.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Traffic signals are one of the myriad options being assessed by staff as well as things like crosswalks, reduced speed limits, etc.\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The timeframe and cost are yet to be determined.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>With fast drivers and a lack of traffic lights, people who live along Joel Blvd. in Lehigh Acres said the road is dangerous and something needs to be done. Lee&hellip; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":44053,"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\/44052"}],"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=44052"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/44052\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/44053"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=44052"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=44052"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=44052"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}