PROJECT NEWS

FDOT Section 8: Nearly 150 Attend Preliminary Design Update Meeting

March 2016

SANFORD _ Some 147 people signed in at the Florida Department of Transportation's March 29 preliminary design update meeting on Wekiva Parkway Section 8. Among those attending the meeting at the Lakeside United Methodist Church in Sanford were Seminole County Commissioner Lee Constantine, Acting Public Works Director Jean Jreij, Assistant County Engineer Shad Smith, and Bill Wharton and Tony Matthews of Seminole County Planning.  

 
Attendees were able to view the latest exhibit boards, a multi-media presentation, schedules and handouts, and get their questions answered by project staff. Section 8 entails building the parkway interchange connecting SR 429 with I-4 and SR 417, thereby completing the beltway around Central Florida. A number of changes were presented at the public meeting since the last update in 2013, including keeping the current SR 417 ramp connection to International Parkway.
 
FDOT will be advertising for bids for this design-build project in January 2018. Construction on this section is scheduled to begin in October 2018 and finish in late 2021.
 
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