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Drivers on Immokalee Road were welcomed this week to two new westbound through lanes in a 3-mile section between Twineagles Boulevard and Collier Boulevard.
New asphalt was placed and the traffic switched to the new section of roadway Monday, Collier County transportation officials said.
The section will have three through lanes westbound and three through lanes eastbound opened to traffic later this year when the project is completed, county officials said.
The contractor, APAC, has been opening new travel lanes as they become available throughout the construction process, officials said.
Six through lanes are now open to traffic from Twineagles Boulevard to Oil Well Road and four through lanes from that point to the end of the project at Shady Hollow Boulevard (formerly 43rd Avenue N.E.).
“My constituents that depend on Immokalee Road for their daily commute are telling me that these two newly opened lanes have made their morning trip so much smoother,” Collier County Commissioner Jim Coletta said in a prepared release. “This project was needed not only to have more travel lanes to help with commuting to work and school, but also for emergency services to help with reducing their response times and adding capacity for a better evacuation route in case of fires and hurricanes.”
Transportation Services Division Administrator Norman Feder said in a statement that he is pleased with the road construction progress to date.
“This milestone of opening two more paved travel lanes westbound for three miles on Immokalee Road from Twineagles Boulevard to Collier Boulevard reflects another step in the planned completion later this spring and summer of all three Immokalee Road widening projects, providing more than 13 miles of six-lane roadway serving the traveling public’s needs from U.S. 41 to Oil Well Road,” Feder said in a statement. “It will connect eastern growth areas to the western part of the county and the beaches.”
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Coletta and Fedor act like this is some great moment. This road project should have been completed two years ago.
There is no excuse for this to have taken so long to construct. The sad thing is that it is still not done.
The good people of GG Estates have suffered through all this. They deserved better.
#1 Posted by swfl_ff on January 19, 2008 at 1:09 p.m. (Suggest removal)
About time...How long have they been working on Immokalee east of Collier anyways? i've lived near this intersection since ive moved here 5 yrs ago, and it was being worked on way back then, so when did all this start?
#2 Posted by wordofmouth on January 19, 2008 at 1:12 p.m. (Suggest removal)
Widening Immokalee Road has already taken longer than it took to construct the entire Hoover Dam.
#3 Posted by Arete411 on January 19, 2008 at 4:35 p.m. (Suggest removal)
It's "Twin Eagles" Blvd.
And it's shameful how long this process has taken. But I guess that's what you get when you have illegals working in jobs that Americans can do better and faster.
#4 Posted by missdakine on January 19, 2008 at 6:20 p.m. (Suggest removal)
Also took longer than the Mackinac Bridge. That spanned a lot of deep water and they could only work on it in the summer.
#5 Posted by FromMich on January 20, 2008 at 2:23 p.m. (Suggest removal)
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