Roughly over 100 people journeyed into RP Funding Center’s Sikes Hall on Monday night to find themselves feeling uncertain about how to navigate the Florida Department of Transportation’s public forum on the South Florida Avenue road diet.
“We thought someone was going to explain things to us,” a Lakeland resident said.
The online survey will remain open for feedback at metroquestsurvey.com/qn1i1c. A brief welcome section explains what the project did. A longer overview is available online at www.swflroads.com/sr37/arianatolime.
The issue with the survey is that anyone can fill it out ten thousand times and skew the results, we think that’s what the city wants.
FDOT is anticipated to present its final conclusions and all comments received to Lakeland commissioners in August. The commission will be expected to make a recommended decision about the road and its final configuration this fall that will go back to the state.
Lakeland Gazette has option 11, put the road back to where it was, and then deny access to any vehicle over five-ton or 10,000 lbs