After more than three years of organizing, petition-signing and meeting with local politicians, Sun City Center residents were successful today in getting approval for a golf cart path that will help them get across U.S. 301 to Walmart. Hillsborough County commissioners voted unanimously this morning to spend between $250,000 and $300,000 on the paved path, which will cross a vacant field to a signalized crossing of U.S. 301 at Cape Stone Avenue. ...more

November 4, 2009

The buildings are gone, but there's still work to do at former truck weigh stations on Interstate 4 west of Thonotosassa Road. The remaining work includes removing old scales, laying sod on the site and placing a new sign for the Thonotosassa Road exit, said John McShaffrey, spokesman for the Florida Department of Transportation project. The contractor is expected to wrap it up at the end of July. ...more

June 13, 2009

Dartmouth Avenue in Spring Hill will be closed from Cactus Circle to County Line Road beginning Monday, May 4, while drainage and utility work is done in conjunction with the County Line Road construction project, according to a news release from the contractor, DAB Constructors Inc. ...more

April 30, 2009

On Causeway Boulevard, customer traffic has plunged at Florida Discount Transmissions and half the usual number of tables are occupied at the Seafood Palace. ...more

October 27, 2008

Businesses on Causeway Boulevard are struggling. Customer traffic has plunged at Florida Discount Transmissions and half the usual number of tables are occupied at the Seafood Palace. Small businesses on that three-mile stretch between U.S. 41 and U.S. 301 say the $42.6 million widening of the causeway, now entering its 10th month, is hurting business. Trucks, piles of dirt, dust and a parade of orange barrels is chasing away customers, they say. ...more

October 23, 2008

Drivers have been doing double-takes along a 12.5-mile stretch of U.S. 92, wondering whether they've witnessed the Sunshine State's version of Alaska's "bridge to nowhere." The boardwalks are part of a multimillion-dollar Florida Department of Transportation project alongside U.S. 92 between Eureka Springs and Thonotosassa roads. Transportation officials say plenty of pedestrians are expected to use the foot paths when all is said and done. ...more

October 6, 2008

With traffic expected to surge during the next decade, the agency that manages the Selmon Crosstown Expressway wants to widen the highway's elevated portion through downtown. ...more

July 6, 2008

The status of resurfacing North Dale Mabry Highway between Waters and Fletcher avenues is on the mind of German Jordan. ...more

May 3, 2008

LAND O' LAKES - A recently begun state project to widen State Road 54 from four to six lanes is expected to be finished in December. ...more

February 26, 2008

Gandy Boulevard is getting a new look designed to make it safer and prettier. ...more

January 27, 2008