The Florida Department of Transportation has its sights set on Tampa’s major thoroughfares. While there are several projects FDOT is working on this year, there are four main ones.
The Downtown Tampa Interchange project:
The project’s goal is to make several improvements along the I-275 and I-4 interchange. Crews are working on adding a lane throughout the area to help with traffic movement and reduce the crash count.
“It’s very important for traffic in the area. We’re going to be adding essentially an additional lane of capacity to most of the major movements here in the interchange, which will help thru-put as well as helping to reduce the congestion that can lead to crashes,” said Austin Petersen, construction project manager for FDOT.
They’re about halfway done and will complete the project in 2027.
“As you’re driving, you’ll see we’re starting to do a lot more construction on the interstate area itself. We started the project mostly in kind of the arterial local roadways but we’re starting to do work on the interstate. Going to have some traffic shifts people need to be aware of. Watching their speeds as they’re driving through the work zones so that they can follow the signs and pay attention to what we’re doing,” said Petersen.