It wouldn’t happen for years, but Florida’s Turnpike System wants to hear from the public about a possible interchange connection I-95 with the Turnpike in Martin County. <\/p>\n
“Tonight I am asking you guys to choose the no-build option.”<\/p>\n
“I’m just one more vote saying please don’t do this.”<\/p>\n
Those who spoke at last night’s public hearing were mostly against the project, with some explaining why.<\/p>\n
“What it really does is turn Martin County into a pass-through zone for out of county traffic and freight.”<\/p>\n
State officials say the project is meant to ease traffic and improve safety and point out that the $447 million would not come from taxpayers, but from Turnpike tolls. <\/p>\n
Both highways run side-by-side in the Hobe Sound area, but drivers currently have to get off one, typically at Indiantown Road in Jupiter, before jumping on the other. <\/p>\n
Count on more public hearings like the one on Tuesday night to happen before any decisions are made.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"It wouldn’t happen for years, but Florida’s Turnpike System wants to hear from the public about a possible…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":16287,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[28,30,29,13743,634,13883,6142,13881,13880,13885,13882,13886,13884,4556],"class_list":["post-16286","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-florida","tag-florida","tag-florida-headlines","tag-florida-news","tag-live","tag-local","tag-palm-beaches","tag-radio","tag-real","tag-real-radio","tag-rovers-morning-glory","tag-talk","tag-the-news-junkie","tag-the-penthouse","tag-west-palm-beach"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16286","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=16286"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16286\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/16287"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=16286"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=16286"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=16286"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}