{"id":28094,"date":"2022-12-19T23:35:21","date_gmt":"2022-12-20T04:35:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lakelandgazette.info\/news\/?p=28094"},"modified":"2022-12-19T23:35:26","modified_gmt":"2022-12-20T04:35:26","slug":"lakeland-city-commission-voted-for-three-lanes-for-south-florida-avenue-in-dixieland","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lakelandgazette.info\/news\/2022\/12\/19\/lakeland-city-commission-voted-for-three-lanes-for-south-florida-avenue-in-dixieland\/","title":{"rendered":"Lakeland City Commission voted for Three Lanes for South Florida Avenue in Dixieland"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Lakeland city commissioners voted 4-1 today to recommend that the Florida DOT maintain a three-lane configuration for South Florida Avenue in Dixieland with two travel lanes and a center turn\/median lane.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"870\" height=\"432\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 870px) 100vw, 870px\" src=\"https:\/\/lakelandgazette.info\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/12\/sfa-option.webp\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-28095\"\/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Commissioner Samuel Simmons cast the lone vote against the measure. Commissioners Mike Musick and Bill Read did not attend today\u2019s meeting.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Simmons, voted against the project because he thought the comments from residents who spoke against it at today\u2019s meeting were compelling.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The vote will initiate the design phase of the project, which is expected to take up to 18 months to complete; it will also allow city and state transportation officials to begin negotiating funding sources for construction, which is expected to start in 2026 or 2027 and last two years, according to Chuck Barmby, the city\u2019s planning and transportation manager.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Lakeland city commissioners voted 4-1 today to recommend that the Florida DOT maintain a three-lane configuration for South Florida Avenue in Dixieland with two travel lanes and a center turn\/median&hellip; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":28095,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"inline_featured_image":false,"_uf_show_specific_survey":0,"_uf_disable_surveys":false,"wpai_generated_summary":"","footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"{title}\n\n{excerpt}\n\n{url}","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"dois","default_image_id":71799,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"_wpas_customize_per_network":false},"categories":[12,14],"tags":[4093],"class_list":["post-28094","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-local","category-news","tag-lakeland-city-commission-voted-for-three-lanes-for-south-florida-avenue-in-dixieland"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lakelandgazette.info\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28094","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lakelandgazette.info\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lakelandgazette.info\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lakelandgazette.info\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lakelandgazette.info\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=28094"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lakelandgazette.info\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28094\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lakelandgazette.info\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/28095"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lakelandgazette.info\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=28094"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lakelandgazette.info\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=28094"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lakelandgazette.info\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=28094"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}