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The Gateway Expressway is a controlled-access toll road in Pinellas County, Florida completed in April 2024 at a cost of $598 million. The project consists of two branches: an elevated highway designated State Road 690 (SR 690) above 118th Avenue North between Interstate 275 (I-275) and U.S. Highway 19 (US 19) and a raised highway in the median of SR 686 from 118th Avenue North to the Bayside ...
He also said plans call for Star Avenue to be realigned with U.S. 231 at Titus Road. "The agreement provides for transfer of local match funding for the project to FDOT, and the state will manage ...
The project was revived in early 2018, and a preliminary design was released in June 2019. [6] Construction began on the segment of Central Polk Parkway from Polk Parkway at the SR 540 interchange to a new interchange with US 17 (SR 35).
The Florida Department of Transportation (FDOT) is a decentralized agency charged with the establishment, maintenance, and regulation of public transportation in the state of Florida. [1] The department was formed in 1969. It absorbed the powers of the State Road Department (SRD). The current Secretary of Transportation is Jared W. Perdue.
The beltway is the one of largest public infrastructure projects to be undertaken in Northeast Florida. In early 2011, FDOT abandoned the plan to find a private company to build the entire 46.6-mile (75.0 km) beltway and just focus on building the 15 mile section between I-10 and SR 21 (Blanding Boulevard).
To improve traffic flow, especially during rush-hours, in 2023 the FDOT installed Florida's first double median U-turn intersection at the interchange with Beach Blvd. (US 90). [4] In 2024 it also completed a major redesign of the intersection just north of the cloverleaf interchange with SR 202 (Butler Boulevard expressway) and in the same ...
In addition, the Florida Department of Transportation (FDOT) is currently designing a similar flyover ramp to better connect S.R. 123 northbound to S.R. 85 just south of Crestview. Work on that project is slated to begin in 2014. Work on the current S.R. 85/123 flyover project began in 2009.
Primary roads would continue to be state-maintained, while secondary roads would have an S before the number, and would only be state-maintained during a construction project. Local roads would be completely removed from the system. In 1969, the State Road Department was superseded by Florida Department of Transportation (FDOT).