A retired passenger transportation professional of 45+ years, I know a boondoggle when I see it and a failure of community planning when clearly it exists.
Soon, in addition to the atrocious debacle of “planning” and building the State Road 200 “improvements,” which have only worsened traffic congestion between I-75 and US 301, Marion County is preparing to widen State Road 80 from 99th Street to U.S. Highway 27.
This is welcomed, but the idiots at the Florida Department of Transportation are now planning to configure “roundabouts” at SR 80 and 38th street, and about 1/4 mile further north, at the exit from West Port High School onto SW 80th Avenue…