{"id":15235,"date":"2025-10-22T06:25:08","date_gmt":"2025-10-22T06:25:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/15235\/"},"modified":"2025-10-22T06:25:08","modified_gmt":"2025-10-22T06:25:08","slug":"broward-county-opens-new-route-connecting-airport-and-beaches","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/15235\/","title":{"rendered":"Broward County opens new route connecting airport and beaches"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Motorists can now move between Hollywood-Fort Lauderdale International Airport and area beaches \u2014 without having to stop and check in with Port Everglades security.<\/p>\n<p>This is thanks to a newly opened shortcut route Broward County officials recently unveiled Oct. 21. Port Everglades Bypass Road carries motorists from State Road 84 and Federal Highway through Port Everglades.<\/p>\n<p>The $55 million project is an elevated, two-lane road \u2014 and it includes a fenced perimeter for Port security.<\/p>\n<p>The bypass road is also part of a billion dollar expansion of the Broward County Convention Center.<\/p>\n<p>READ MORE: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.wlrn.org\/business\/2025-08-21\/commute-times-transportation\" class=\"Link\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">You&#8217;re probably spending less time commuting in South Florida (unless you work in Broward)<\/a><\/p>\n<p>This is a News In Brief report. Visit <a href=\"https:\/\/www.wlrn.org\/\" class=\"Link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">WLRN News<\/a> for in-depth reporting from South Florida and Florida news.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Motorists can now move between Hollywood-Fort Lauderdale International Airport and area beaches \u2014 without having to stop and&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":15236,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[17],"tags":[249,251,250],"class_list":["post-15235","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-fort-lauderdale","tag-fort-lauderdale","tag-fort-lauderdale-headlines","tag-fort-lauderdale-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15235","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=15235"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15235\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/15236"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=15235"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=15235"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=15235"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}