Jim Frye, project engineer for CAP Engineering Consultants, noted that the only things left to do are some minor cosmetic work and a full clean-up. But the Florida Department of Transportation s work on SR 7 is only just beginning. The entire SR 7 project actually encompasses a total of about 16.4 miles of roadwork all the way south to Glades Road in Boca Raton. The road is being widened from two lanes to six lanes over most of that distance. A median is being added to separate traffic.
Plans call for sidewalks, landscaping, street lights, and, in some places, noise walls.
If you want to know the progress of the SR 7 widening and renovation project, it depends upon where you re standing on the roadway. There are many consultants working portions of roadway. That is so one contractor will not get overburdened with the absolute magnitude of renovating and working on miles and miles of roadway, said Tampa Bay Engineering s Mike Shaw, who is the consultant responsible for the part of the project south of Lake Worth Road to north of Boynton Beach Blvd. Other consultants work the roadway from Boynton Beach Blvd. There are millions of yards of earth being moved.