{"id":57990,"date":"2023-05-23T17:49:14","date_gmt":"2023-05-23T21:49:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/?p=57990"},"modified":"2023-05-23T17:49:17","modified_gmt":"2023-05-23T21:49:17","slug":"lehigh-resident-petitions-for-a-stoplight","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/2023\/05\/lehigh-resident-petitions-for-a-stoplight\/","title":{"rendered":"Lehigh resident petitions for a stoplight"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>A Lehigh resident has started a&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.change.org\/p\/grant-the-installation-of-street-lights-at-the-intersection-of-alabama-rd-and-sr82?original_footer_petition_id=25956610&amp;algorithm=promoted&amp;source_location=petition_footer&amp;grid_position=7&amp;pt=AVBldGl0aW9uAIQ9KQIAAAAAZF8O7wIdG0E4ZTdhZmE5NQ%3D%3D\">petition<\/a>&nbsp;for a stop light on the intersection of Alabama Road and State Road 82.<\/p>\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\">\n<figure class=\"aligncenter size-full\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"284\" height=\"296\" src=\"https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/05\/Screenshot-27b.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-57991\"\/><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n<p>Alex Terrell posted the petition on change.org to prevent what seemed to be regularly occurring accidents at the intersection.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Terrell said, \u201cIt\u2019s never a good sign for the town or the city when you\u2019re driving to one of its entries to get in, to get to like Homestead, and you just see so many of these vigils and memories.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Terrell has lived near the intersection for the past 30 years. He stated that the community regularly communicates about accidents and ways to avoid the road.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cLines, massive lines of people at 6:30 in the morning and you think it\u2019s an accident,\u201d Terrell said.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>SR 82 has been&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.swflroads.com\/project\/425841-3\">widened<\/a>, but as Lehigh grows, additional safety measures are needed.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Click&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/winknews.com\/2020\/01\/22\/widening-project-to-close-roads-lanes-on-sr-82-from-alabama-rd-to-lee-hendry-county-line\/\">here<\/a>&nbsp;and&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/winknews.com\/2022\/12\/06\/rollover-crash-shuts-down-westbound-sr-82-in-lehigh-acres\/\">here<\/a>&nbsp;for more information.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A Lehigh resident has started a&nbsp;petition&nbsp;for a stop light on the intersection of Alabama Road and State Road 82. Alex Terrell posted the petition on change.org to prevent what seemed&hellip; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":57991,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[57,32],"tags":[2340],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/57990"}],"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=57990"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/57990\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":57992,"href":"https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/57990\/revisions\/57992"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/57991"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=57990"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=57990"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=57990"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}