Let’s Hear It<\/a> events in the city.<\/p>\nWATCH BELOW: 3 design options proposed for congested Bayshore Boulevard corridor<\/p>\n
Bayshore Boulevard redesign could bring 4 lanes, roundabouts to Port St. Lucie<\/p>\n
WPTV Treasure Coast reporter Tyler Hatfield listened to neighbors about their roadway headaches on Bayshore Boulevard and heard from the city about how they’re trying to improve it.<\/p>\n
But right now on Bayshore Boulevard, neighbor Jackson Lloyd said traffic is bumper to bumper.<\/p>\n
“It’s really busy, all the time,” Lloyd said. “Sometimes l when I’m leaving my house, cars just line up, and it’s nearly impossible to get out of my own house.”<\/p>\n
The city of Port St Lucie heard these concerns and is working on the Bayshore Boulevard Corridor Improvement Project.<\/p>\n
“Bayshore is a really important corridor,” said Scott Samples with the city of Port St Lucie. “There’s a lot of traffic that goes through there. It’s a connector from the north side of the city towards the south.”<\/p>\n
The project focuses on the 1.3-mile, two-lane stretch from Prima Vista Boulevard to the roundabout at Selvitz Road.<\/p>\n
There are three design options: two of them are four-lane designs with sidewalks and bike paths. The third design is a two-way divided highway.<\/p>\n
“All this is geared towards, how do we improve safety?” Samples said. “How do we improve traffic efficiency and the way that traffic flows.”<\/p>\n
The city is also proposing a roundabout at Floresta Drive.<\/p>\n
“The roundabouts typically are safer,” Samples said. “They improve efficiency of traffic flow.”<\/p>\n
Lloyd agrees that a roundabout could help with traffic.<\/p>\n
“It always seems to enhance the flow of traffic, because there’s no stops, it’s just constantly flowing,” Lloyd said.<\/p>\n
While Lloyd said he doesn’t know if more lanes are needed, he said he supports more sidewalks.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"PORT ST. LUCIE, Fla. \u2014 WPTV is listening to your traffic concerns about a roadway in Port St…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":144043,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12],"tags":[29402,171,173,172,1402,729],"class_list":["post-144042","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-port-st-lucie","tag-bayshore-drive","tag-port-st-lucie","tag-port-st-lucie-headlines","tag-port-st-lucie-news","tag-st-lucie-county","tag-traffic"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/144042","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=144042"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/144042\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/144043"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=144042"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=144042"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=144042"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}