{"id":434183,"date":"2026-10-22T00:48:20","date_gmt":"2026-10-22T00:48:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/434183\/"},"modified":"2026-10-22T00:48:20","modified_gmt":"2026-10-22T00:48:20","slug":"selmon-expressway-expansion-two-year-road-closure-begins-in-tampa","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/434183\/","title":{"rendered":"Selmon Expressway expansion: Two-year road closure begins in Tampa"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/10\/vlcsnap-2026-10-21-18h20m06s933.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"764\" height=\"432\" loading=\"eager\" fetchpriority=\"high\" data-v-47e62d5a=\"\"\/> article    <\/p>\n<p data-v-2c6143fb=\"\">TAMPA, Fla. &#8211; A two-year road closure has begun in downtown Tampa, as construction crews work to expand the Selmon Expressway.<\/p>\n<p>   Selmon Expressway Traffic Surge <\/p>\n<p original-article-post=\"\" origination_station=\"WTVT\" data-v-ec26887a=\"\" data-v-2c6143fb=\"\">By the numbers:<\/p>\n<p data-v-2c6143fb=\"\">The Tampa Hillsborough Expressway Authority (THEA) says traffic on the Selmon Expressway has grown by more than 80% over the last 10 years.<\/p>\n<p data-v-2c6143fb=\"\">To address the congestion, THEA started work on the South Selmon Capacity Project. The 4.5-mile project stretches from west of Himes Avenue to east of Florida Avenue and will widen the expressway to six lanes.<\/p>\n<p> South Tampa Street Closure <\/p>\n<p original-article-post=\"\" origination_station=\"WTVT\" data-v-ec26887a=\"\" data-v-2c6143fb=\"\">What we know:<\/p>\n<p data-v-2c6143fb=\"\">Crews are closing South Tampa Street at East Brorein Street for the next two years to install support pillars required for the expressway expansion.<\/p>\n<p data-v-2c6143fb=\"\">During construction, drivers on East Brorein will lose access to the far-left lane, between South Morgan Street and South Florida Avenue.<\/p>\n<p data-v-2c6143fb=\"\">That lane will be used as a temporary thruway to connect drivers to Franklin Street and the Tampa Convention Center&#8217;s upper loading docks.<\/p>\n<p data-v-2c6143fb=\"\">Crews are placing detour signs and barricades throughout the area to direct drivers around the construction.<\/p>\n<p data-v-2c6143fb=\"\">The City of Tampa says the $362 million project is funded by THEA toll revenues.<\/p>\n<p> Unanswered Expressway Project Details <\/p>\n<p original-article-post=\"\" origination_station=\"WTVT\" data-v-ec26887a=\"\" data-v-2c6143fb=\"\">What we don&#8217;t know:<\/p>\n<p data-v-2c6143fb=\"\">Representatives from the Tampa Hillsborough Expressway Authority have not yet responded to requests for additional comment regarding the construction timeline.<\/p>\n<p original-article-post=\"\" origination_station=\"WTVT\" data-v-ec26887a=\"\" data-v-2c6143fb=\"\">What you can do:<\/p>\n<p data-v-2c6143fb=\"\">Drivers traveling eastbound on East Brorein Street can take a temporary lane detouring traffic toward Franklin Street and the upper loading docks at the Tampa Convention Center.<\/p>\n<p data-v-2c6143fb=\"\">The Tampa Convention Center parking garage will stay open during construction.<\/p>\n<p class=\"group-source-paragraph\" data-v-4fbf7207=\"\">The Source: The information in this story was gathered from information on the road closure and traffic impact in Tampa, provided by the City of Tampa and the Tampa Hillsborough Expressway Authority.<\/p>\n<p>    <a href=\"https:\/\/www.fox13news.com\/tag\/us\/fl\/hillsborough\/tampa\" class=\"tags-tag\" data-v-2c6143fb=\"\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Tampa<\/a> <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"article TAMPA, Fla. &#8211; A two-year road closure has begun in downtown Tampa, as construction crews work to&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":434184,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[47,629,115,135,137,136,628],"class_list":["post-434183","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-tampa","tag-fl","tag-hillsborough","tag-news","tag-tampa","tag-tampa-headlines","tag-tampa-news","tag-us"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/434183","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=434183"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/434183\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/434184"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=434183"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=434183"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=434183"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}