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he rest of the project is on hold as we evaluate both the Blvd and ends at 17th just west of the Causeway. It will be
construction and bond markets. We believe better a two lane road, one lane in each direction, with generous
T conditions in both markets than currently exists will save shoulders to accommodate incapacitated vehicles.
us some money on the base project costs and allow us to As opposed to being a flyover (elevated) roadway, the road
better enhance the final project. We recently provided a site will be primarily at normal street level. It will have two small
plan to the City DRC, which is available on the City's website. bridges along the route to accommodate cross traffic within

Regarding the bypass road, the new Port bypass road is the Port. The resulting design will maintain all current Port
being designed to follow the originally proposed route from traffic patterns, with only one small change to a service
several years ago. Heading east and starting at the road access point.
intersection of Federal Highway and Spangler Blvd/24th New travel lanes are being added to the north end of
Street (across from State Rd. 84), it connects to Eisenhower Eisenhower Blvd in both directions to accommodate the

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