This project follows the Florida Department of Transportation (FDOT) project development process, which has five phases as shown here. Today, we are in the first phase of the project development process, which is the planning phase. The project is currently being screened through the Efficient Transportation Decision Making (ETDM) process by environmental resource agencies. Input from the resource agencies will be used to refine alternative corridors to avoid and minimize impacts to environmentally sensitive features to the extent possible.
This Public Kickoff Meeting is also a part of the planning phase where we are following the Alternative Corridor Evaluation (ACE) process.
During the ACE process, existing conditions are assessed, preliminary future traffic is forecasted, and corridor analysis is completed along with other documentation. The ACE process will evaluate alternative corridors with respect to project goals and unreasonable corridors will eliminated, resulting in a recommended alternative corridor for detailed evaluation during the Project Development and Environment (PD&E), which is phase 2.
All graphics are available for download on the main project website www.floridasturnpike.com/NTE under the Documents – Public Kickoff Meeting section.