Governor DeSantis announces transportation investments and congestion relief
Press release from the Office of Governor Ron DeSantis
AUBURNDALE, Fla. — Today, Governor Ron DeSantis was joined by the Florida Department of Transportation (FDOT) to announce more fully-funded and ahead-of-schedule transportation projects to add capacity and ease congestion as Florida continues to see record growth and tourism. Thanks to Florida’s good financial stewardship, Florida can largely self-fund transportation solutions, while the Biden administration forces other states dependent on federal funding to embrace ideological and political agendas to access funds. Moreover, Florida is fighting back.
“Unlike the federal government, under my leadership Florida’s Department of Transportation is focused solely on transportation,” said Governor Ron DeSantis. “That’s why our major transportation upgrades are fully funded and decades ahead of schedule. We listen to Floridians and meet their needs. Roads are not for politics.”
Since Governor DeSantis took office in 2019, Florida has invested over $67.8 billion to improve Florida’s transportation infrastructure, reduce congestion, and keep our supply chain moving. Over the last two years, Florida has advanced 20 critical congestion relief projects through the Moving Florida Forward Initiative.
In the next year alone, Governor DeSantis is investing over $14.5 billion for 946 current and upcoming construction projects across the state, which includes:
- $5.2 billion to maintain and construct new highways, adding 140 new lane miles; a cumulative investment of $24.28 billion to construct 964.6 new miles of roadway since 2019.
- $1.8 billion to resurface roadways and fill potholes. Since 2019, we’ve invested over $12.33 billion to resurface over 12,300 miles of roadway.
- $382 million to repair 72 bridges and replace another 15, totaling 593 bridge repairs or replacements since 2019.
- $1.4 billion to support intermodal improvements, including over $334.2 million for our airports, $109.6 million for our seaports, and $960.6 million to support transit and freight rail. Since 2019, we’ve invested over $2 billion in our airports, $1.1 billion in our seaports, and another $3.7 billion in transit and freight rail.
In April, the Governor announced fully-funded I-4 projects in Polk and Osceola counties, including nearly 15 miles of highway widening at ChampionsGate and World Drive, starting this year. Once again, Florida is addressing immediate transportation needs by delivering projects ahead of schedule. Today, the Governor announced the addition of a new lane for traffic on I-4, available next year, to provide immediate congestion relief during and after the completion of other I-4 widening projects.
“Thanks to Governor DeSantis’ leadership and forward-thinking approach, we were empowered to look at even more ways to expedite critical infrastructure improvements along the I-4 corridor. Moving Florida Forward was already poised to benefit Floridians, and with the re-sequencing of construction and the additional auxiliary lanes, drivers will start to see relief at one of the most congested areas in the state by the end of 2025, not 2030 as previously planned,” said FDOT Secretary Jared W. Perdue, P.E. “Florida’s vision for infrastructure stands in stark contrast to the Biden administration’s insistence on prioritizing ideological and political agendas over building infrastructure. I’m happy to live in the Free State of Florida where all Floridians and visitors are free to drive what they want, when they want, and where they want.”
Finally, to demonstrate how Florida is pushing back, Governor DeSantis announced that FDOT is launching a dedicated portal to highlight the politicization of Biden’s transportation department. Florida will call out the federal government’s underhanded tactics and progressive agenda-pushing at every turn. And thanks to Florida’s solid financial standing, Florida can reject the heavy hand of radical federal mandates.
To visit the portal, click here.
We need our Governor to be President after President Trump leaves office as out next president, these PROGRESSIVE/SOCIALIST IDIOT’S, that are running our country now, have ruined it, WAKE UP AMERICA, GROW SOME STONES, elect PRESIDENT TRUMP NOW. Then we will bring in PRESIDENT RON DESANTIS NEXT.
Probably growing a brain tumor if we elect Trump. He’s the impulsive liar and braggart who cares for no one but himself, a fact emphasized by his dumping supporters when no longer of use – at least 24 former cabinet officers and high ranking staffers, and his VP won’t support his reelection – and sacrificing the country with selfish stunts like pretending he won in 2020 – no one in his own administration could support that and he knew it was BS – to the point of denying access to normal administration transition staff and resources and for the 1st time in over 200 years being too much of a bad sport and castrated coward to show up for his successors inauguration – like you know, Hillary, Obama, and Biden did in 2016.
That guy? The guy who lost more jobs than he created – 1st time since Hoover – and left office with a negative GDP and 15% unemployment rate and who added $8 trillion to the national debt, more than any president in history. Covid you say? But then covid was still raging and doing it’s worst after he left office and besides for materials shortages created world wide inflation which is somehow Biden’s fault, though we are doing better with it than almost all other developed nations and now have a booming economy and stock market with the lowest unemployment in a very long time.
You must have a brain tumor – not “stones” – if you want that guy back.
WHY WAS MY COMMENT NOT POSTED??????
There is a bug in the comment moderation system (I’ve reported it, but it remains). If you use the word “s0cialisn,” the comment goes to the Trash folder. I have now approved it.
Uh, politicizing highway construction is exactly what grandstanding DeSantis is doing, just like he politicizes everything. The Infrastructure Bill Biden got passed in 2021 was not politicized as small and red states did best on per capita spending and when it suits him and our Rep Kat, DeSantis makes big of programs funded by it in small towns, as if they were responsible for it.
This BS is about DeSantis catering to the stupid Climate Change deniers – all reputable scientific organizations in the world endorse it’s existence and threat while NONE oppose it – an existential problem for all humans in the world and especially in low level wet and hot places like Florida. Yes, of course the feds are prioritizing technologies – EVs – and systems – mass transit like Brightline in S Florida because this problem will not be solved on an individual basis. Guess what? We didn’t build the interstate system on an individual basis either.
So, as we continue to experience each “hottest year on record” year after year and now see full blown hurricanes showing up just off the Yucatan, 3 days away from here, instead of off the coast of Africa and at least a week away, think of this go-go booted dunce pretending that he knows more than the entire scientific community a while he grins a “What, me worry?”