A new crossing signal is now active on at the town’s Par 3 golf course, in a move Palm Beach officials have said they hope will improve safety at a spot on a busy South End road where a golfer died five years ago.
The signal is part of the nearly finished $5.9 million project to repave and improve the 2-mile stretch of South Ocean Boulevard from south of Lake Avenue in Lake Worth Beach to Ibis Way in Palm Beach.
The Florida Department of Transportation earlier this month turned on the pedestrian signal to allow people traveling via foot or golf cart to cross South Ocean Boulevard just north of the entrance to Palm Beach’s oceanfront course, a spokesperson for the department said…