{"id":45115,"date":"2019-10-21T13:23:16","date_gmt":"2019-10-21T17:23:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/?p=45115"},"modified":"2019-10-21T13:23:51","modified_gmt":"2019-10-21T17:23:51","slug":"s-r-82-extension-to-alico-road-will-ease-traffic-for-lehigh-acres-drivers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/2019\/10\/s-r-82-extension-to-alico-road-will-ease-traffic-for-lehigh-acres-drivers\/","title":{"rendered":"S.R. 82 extension to Alico Road will ease traffic for Lehigh Acres Drivers"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"673\" height=\"526\" src=\"https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/10\/Screenshot-20.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-45116\" srcset=\"https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/10\/Screenshot-20.png 673w, https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/10\/Screenshot-20-300x234.png 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 673px) 100vw, 673px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>Relief is on the way for the thousands of drivers stuck commuting in the construction congestion along State Road 82 as Lee County is buying land to connect S.R. 82 with Alico.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>If you are one of the many drivers using that route, you have more than likely experienced back ups. Drivers say with more and more people moving out to areas like Lehigh Acres and Gateway, the problem is only getting worse.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>On Tuesday, the county will approve a plan to purchase the land where the road will go for $2.2-million.&nbsp; This could take a lot of pressure off of S.R. 82 at a time when the population is growing quickly.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>About 30,000 people have moved to Lehigh Acres in just the past 10 years. Local real estate agent says the area is booming right now because it is more affordable to buy land, build a home, or rent.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The department of transportation expects the expansion to start as a two-lane drive, which will eventually expand to 4 lanes.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Relief is on the way for the thousands of drivers stuck commuting in the construction congestion along State Road 82 as Lee County is buying land to connect S.R. 82&hellip; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":45116,"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\/45115"}],"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=45115"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/45115\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/45116"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=45115"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=45115"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=45115"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}