{"id":327870,"date":"2026-07-02T23:19:07","date_gmt":"2026-07-02T23:19:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/327870\/"},"modified":"2026-07-02T23:19:07","modified_gmt":"2026-07-02T23:19:07","slug":"new-developments-for-this-treasure-coast-road-project","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/327870\/","title":{"rendered":"New developments for this Treasure Coast road project"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>ST. LUCIE COUNTY, Fla. \u2014 WPTV is learning about new developments for the Midway Road Widening Project and a partial interchange coming to Florida&#8217;s Turnpike in St. Lucie County.<\/p>\n<p>Last month, the Port St. Lucie City Council approved the first reading of an ordinance to give 7 acres of land to the Florida Department of Transportation to assist with the interchange.<\/p>\n<p>WATCH BELOW: New developments for Treasure Coast road project<\/p>\n<p>$95M Midway Road project moves forward with partial Turnpike interchange plans<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;There&#8217;s a pretty significant gap between the entrances and exits to the Turnpike currently in Port St. Lucie,&#8221; said Scott Samples, strategic communications manager for Port St. Lucie.<\/p>\n<p>Samples said the interchange is all about accessibility, keeping up with growth in the city.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;This is a way for us to try to accommodate the growth that&#8217;s already occurred, but also the growth that will occur over the next 20 to 50 years,\u201d said Samples.<\/p>\n<p>FDOT has been constructing the $95 million Midway Road Widening Project to help with congestion and safety.<\/p>\n<p>Crews are currently working on the first phase \u2014 widening the road from two lanes to four lanes, first from Selvitz Road to Jenkins Road.<\/p>\n<p>According to the <a class=\"Link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.midwayrd.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">FDOT website for the project<\/a>, the second widening phase from Jenkins Road to Glades Cut Off Road is still in the design phase and construction is anticipated to begin in Summer 2027.<\/p>\n<p>FDOT is also working on improving the Turnpike bridge and adding a partial interchange for the Turnpike.<\/p>\n<p>According to the FDOT website for the project, the partial interchange is still in the design phase. But work hasn\u2019t gone unnoticed by neighbors.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;They&#8217;re still doing construction over there,&#8221; Erin Scheumeister, a Port St. Lucie resident, said. &#8220;It was like you couldn&#8217;t get away from it.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>While Scheumeister said the construction can be annoying, she believes it&#8217;s necessary.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;We definitely needed it to be expanded,&#8221; said Scheumeister. &#8220;It&#8217;ll be a lot better and easier to get to work.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>FDOT said the Midway Road Widening Project will also add bike and pedestrian paths, along with sidewalks.<\/p>\n<p>City council will vote on final approval to give the land at an upcoming meeting.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"ST. LUCIE COUNTY, Fla. \u2014 WPTV is learning about new developments for the Midway Road Widening Project and&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":327871,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12],"tags":[7124,171,173,172,1402,107],"class_list":["post-327870","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-port-st-lucie","tag-midway-road","tag-port-st-lucie","tag-port-st-lucie-headlines","tag-port-st-lucie-news","tag-st-lucie-county","tag-travel"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/327870","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=327870"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/327870\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/327871"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=327870"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=327870"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=327870"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}