{"id":336489,"date":"2026-07-11T01:52:09","date_gmt":"2026-07-11T01:52:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/336489\/"},"modified":"2026-07-11T01:52:09","modified_gmt":"2026-07-11T01:52:09","slug":"update-from-the-florida-department-of-transportation-south-lake-county","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/336489\/","title":{"rendered":"Update From The Florida Department Of Transportation (South Lake County)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>            <a href=\"https:\/\/sltablet.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/IMG_2006.jpg\" data-caption=\"\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"696\" height=\"518\" class=\"entry-thumb td-modal-image\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/IMG_2006-696x518.jpg\"   alt=\"\" title=\"IMG_2006\"\/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>News From the FDOT<\/p>\n<p>Construction has FINISHED on Florida\u2019s Turnpike Widening Project from Clermont\/State Road 50 to Minneola\/Hancock Road.<\/p>\n<p><a rel=\"nofollow noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/sltablet.com\/ads\/advent-health-banner\/\" target=\"_blank\"><img width=\"960\" height=\"150\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/CB_Market-Expansion_Clermont_960\u00d7150_6.25.jpg\" class=\"no-lazy-load wp-post-image\" alt=\"\" decoding=\"async\" fetchpriority=\"high\"  \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>This project added two new travel lanes in each direction to increase capacity and improve traffic flow while delivering several additional improvements, including: \u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u2022 A new Citrus Grove Rd.\/Fosgate Rd. bridge over Florida\u2019s Turnpike \u00a0<br \/>\u2022 Adding two new roundabouts at the newly constructed County Road (C.R.) 455 bridge<br \/>\u2022 Reconstruction of the C.R. 438 and West Orange Trail bridges \u00a0<br \/>\u2022 New roadway lighting, signage, and pavement markings<\/p>\n<p>These improvements enhance safety, improve mobility, and support the growing transportation needs of Central Florida.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"News From the FDOT Construction has FINISHED on Florida\u2019s Turnpike Widening Project from Clermont\/State Road 50 to Minneola\/Hancock&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":336490,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[28,30,29,138565],"class_list":["post-336489","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-florida","tag-florida","tag-florida-headlines","tag-florida-news","tag-south-lake-fdot"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/336489","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=336489"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/336489\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/336490"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=336489"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=336489"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=336489"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}