Road construction at the Pine Ridge Road interchange is bringing a mix of confusion and optimism to drivers in the area. Crews are currently working throughout the area as preparations are underway for significant changes starting Monday.<\/p>\n
The Florida Department of Transportation announced that, starting Monday at 8 p.m. and continuing until 6 a.m., drivers can expect rolling ramp closures on I-75. This is part of a $27 million project to build a diverging diamond interchange.<\/p>\n
The design, similar to one at Colonial Boulevard and I-75 in Lee County, temporarily flips traffic to the left side of the road to improve turning movements and reduce crash points.<\/p>\n
Drivers, like Jan Drummond, are preparing for potential delays.<\/p>\n
“Pine Ridge is a parking lot during season,” said Drummond. “It’s got to relieve the congestion. I’m looking forward to the end of it, but I drove home in the dark the other night, and getting on I-75 from Pine Ridge was pretty scary.”<\/p>\n
FDOT expects the project to be completed in two years. Travelers should prepare for delays and pack their patience when driving near this area.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Road construction at the Pine Ridge Road interchange is bringing a mix of confusion and optimism to drivers…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":28424,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[14],"tags":[209,211,210],"class_list":["post-28423","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-cape-coral","tag-cape-coral","tag-cape-coral-headlines","tag-cape-coral-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28423","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=28423"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28423\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/28424"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=28423"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=28423"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=28423"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}