HOBE SOUND, Fla. (CBS12) \u2014 Tuesday night, residents of Martin County have an opportunity to learn more about a proposed interchange project connecting I-95 and the Turnpike. <\/p>\n
The Florida Department of Transportation (FDOT) has unveiled plans for the project which comes with a hefty price tag of over $447 million and could take years to complete.<\/p>\n
See also: Suspended Martin County teacher requests independent officer for termination hearing<\/a><\/p>\n Monday night, at a virtual meeting the community learned additional details about the proposed improvements. The project would connect the turnpike to I-95 near Southeast Bridge Road, west of Hobe Sound. Notably, there will be no changes to the existing I-95 and Bridge Road interchange. The plan includes widening the turnpike and constructing a new direct connection ramp.<\/p>\n The meeting will take place at 5:30 p.m. at the Indian River State College Wolf High-Tech Center in Stuart.<\/p>\n CBS12 News wants to hear from you. Do you support the proposed $447 million interchange project connecting I-95 and the Turnpike in Martin County?<\/p>\n Find more ways to stay up to date with your latest local news. Sign up for our newsletter <\/a>to get the day’s top headlines delivered right to your inbox. Subscribe to our YouTube channel <\/a>for the biggest stories and can’t miss video.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"HOBE SOUND, Fla. (CBS12) \u2014 Tuesday night, residents of Martin County have an opportunity to learn more about…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":14139,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12],"tags":[12390,1126,12391,5085,3741,12389,1160,171,173,172,5069],"class_list":["post-14138","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-port-st-lucie","tag-bridge-road","tag-florida-department-of-transportation","tag-highway-expansion","tag-i-95","tag-infrastructure","tag-interchange","tag-martin-county","tag-port-st-lucie","tag-port-st-lucie-headlines","tag-port-st-lucie-news","tag-turnpike"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14138","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=14138"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14138\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/14139"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=14138"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=14138"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=14138"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}