HILLSBOROUGH COUNTY, Fla. – Tampa Bay drivers will need to pack their patience starting Sunday, June 7, as the Florida Department of Transportation rolls out a massive wave of roadwork across Hillsborough County. Major thoroughfares including I-75, I-275, and the Howard Frankland Bridge are all slated for heavy evening and daytime lane closures through June 13, and some localized projects will stretch well into the summer and beyond.
Interstate travelers are facing the widest disruption. On I-75, drivers moving southbound just south of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. Boulevard will hit a single-night closure on Thursday, June 11, from 10 p.m. to 5 a.m. However, a much longer-term project spans from MLK Boulevard up to Fowler Avenue, where nightly lane closures run Sunday through Friday from 10 p.m. to 5 a.m., lasting all the way until July 17.
The Howard Frankland Bridge is also getting choked down to fewer lanes. Continuous nightly closures across the entire bridge span between Hillsborough and Pinellas counties run Sunday through Saturday from 9 p.m. to 6 a.m. Specific segments on the bridge approach will see targeted slowdowns too. Northbound lanes from south of Exit 39 to north of the SR 60 interchange, alongside southbound lanes from Exit 39 to the interchange, are scheduled for shutdowns Sunday through Thursday nights between 10 p.m. and 5 a.m.
Further inland on I-275, a stretch from Willow Avenue to Green Street will undergo nightly closures Monday through Thursday from 9 p.m. to 6:30 a.m. Underpasses along I-4 will experience evening constraints as well, specifically at McIntosh Road from 8 p.m. to 6 a.m. and Branch Forbes Road from 9:30 p.m. to 5:30 a.m., both running Sunday through Thursday nights…