{"id":60009,"date":"2024-09-17T17:47:06","date_gmt":"2024-09-17T21:47:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/?p=60009"},"modified":"2024-09-17T17:47:08","modified_gmt":"2024-09-17T21:47:08","slug":"roundabout-approved-for-intersection-at-gunnery-road-and-buckingham-road","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/2024\/09\/roundabout-approved-for-intersection-at-gunnery-road-and-buckingham-road\/","title":{"rendered":"Roundabout approved for intersection at Gunnery Road and Buckingham Road"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Lee County officials are looking to improve safety and make traffic smoother with a roundabout at the intersection of Gunnery Road and Buckingham Road.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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The Lee County Board of Commissioners approved an agreement with the Florida Department of Transportation Tuesday morning to get $4.6 million in federal funding to build a roundabout at the intersection.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

With over 70 crashes documented at the intersection since 2019, Maggie Land, a teacher at the Gunnery Road Christian Academy, can\u2019t wait to see changes to the intersection in Lehigh Acres.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

 \u201cIt is a dangerous intersection, and it really does affect us,\u201d said Land.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Fellow Academy teacher Luke Holt explained, \u201cThe intersection is a bit of a problem. I think a lot of drivers find it confusing, especially if you\u2019ve not been here before, because it\u2019s a one-way stop, but it\u2019s right on the turn.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

For teachers and students at the academy adjacent to the intersection, this was a long time coming.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cWe\u2019ve been talking about it for years, so I\u2019m happy to hear the vote,\u201d said Holt.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

A county survey shows the intersection as the second most needed place in the area for a roundabout due to the number of crashes and location.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Land said, \u201cIn the mornings and the afternoon people come in right here, and if there\u2019s a crash right there \u2026 that slows down traffic and even just gets people\u2019s attention off of what we should be doing.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The project is scheduled to begin construction in early 2025 and could take a year to finish.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cI do think a turn lane would be great for us personally, and maybe some signs as well, just to let people know that there is a school, and there are kids running around and just to be more mindful of that,\u201d said Land.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Lee County officials are looking to improve safety and make traffic smoother with a roundabout at the intersection of Gunnery Road and Buckingham Road. The Lee County Board of Commissioners approved an agreement… <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":60010,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[57,32],"tags":[2811],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/60009"}],"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=60009"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/60009\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":60012,"href":"https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/60009\/revisions\/60012"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/60010"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=60009"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=60009"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=60009"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}