POLK COUNTY, Fla. (WFLA) — A six-year, $134 million project broke ground Thursday to better connect Polk County highways to I-4.
One of the goals is to direct semi-truck traffic away from Bartow.
“We have Highway 60, which goes directly through us, which is a coast-to-coast corridor. That’s pretty unique. There’s no other coast-to-coast corridor that goes through a municipality. Then we have 17 and 98 that are the north/south,” said Trish Pfeiffer, a Bartow city commissioner and chair of the Polk Transportation Organization.
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Pfeiffer, who was a speaker at Thursday’s groundbreaking, said those major roads attract truck traffic in Bartow…