{"id":48588,"date":"2021-05-04T23:43:24","date_gmt":"2021-05-05T03:43:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/?p=48588"},"modified":"2021-05-04T23:43:31","modified_gmt":"2021-05-05T03:43:31","slug":"what-about-the-alico-connector","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/2021\/05\/what-about-the-alico-connector\/","title":{"rendered":"What about the Alico Connector?"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Transportation planners also got the go-ahead to develop a controlled access strategy for the Alico Connector.\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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The final stage of the reconstruction of Alico Road, the connector is a nine-mile path that will move traffic from Sunshine Boulevard and State Road 82 to Immokalee Road, well into Lehigh Acres where the traffic is jammed during most morning and afternoon commutes.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The county transportation department plans to limit access by placing driveways at least 660 feet apart and 1,300 feet for traffic signals to prevent traffic bunching along the roadway, increasing congestion.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

County Transportation Director Randy Cerchie said a frontage road is sometimes needed to provide fewer places to turn while allowing traffic to travel to precise destinations along a secondary road off the main road. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Some of the land along the new connector is now used for farming and limerock mining. Recent development trends suggests that after the mining is done, the pits will serve as lakes for hundreds of new homes.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

When that happens, Cerchie said, the county will specify that there be one main entrance and one main exit to prevent some of the traffic issues raised when the Bella Terra community was developed in unincorporated Estero.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

“The entrance to a mine might work fine when it’s a mine. When they have dug everything out, they may need an extra entrance,” he said. “That’s when they come to the (commission chamber) podium and work everything out.”<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Transportation planners also got the go-ahead to develop a controlled access strategy for the Alico Connector.\u00a0 The final stage of the reconstruction of Alico Road, the connector is a nine-mile… <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":48589,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[57,32],"tags":[248],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/48588"}],"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=48588"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/48588\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/48589"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=48588"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=48588"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=48588"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}