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Lee County hears transportation priorities update; staff seeks federal bridge grant and will provide project fact sheet
Summary
Lee County commissioners reviewed updated Tier 1–3 transportation priorities, heard cost and schedule updates on major projects including the Cape Bridge, and agreed staff would produce a fact sheet with start/completion dates and solicit letters of interest for federal lobbying to support a $250 million grant application.
Lee County commissioners on Wednesday received an annual update on the county’s transportation project tiers and pressed staff for clearer start and completion dates and funding details.
Rob Price of the Department of Transportation opened the presentation, saying, "Today, we're here excited to present our annual transportation tiers for your input," and walked through the scoring criteria used to rank projects by preservation, level of service, continuity, safety, multimodal benefits and grant/match potential.
Price said three projects — including the Littleton Road 3‑laning and the Colonial safety improvements — were completed and removed from the Tier 1 list. He provided cost figures for several Tier 1 projects: Colonial improvements at about $1,500,000; Littleton Road at roughly $24,000,000; the 3 Oaks extension (two phases) at about…
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