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Public weighs in on where to build a third bridge over the St. Lucie River

PORT ST. LUCIE — The process of deciding where to build a possible third bridge over the St. Lucie River began Thursday with plenty of public input. About 250 people filled the Community Center to hear an update on the Crosstown Parkway bridge, the final piece of the 6-mile-long east-west road. Dozens of those people left written comments for city engineers, consultant Keith and Schnars, and transportation and environmental agencies to consider as they study six possible routes for the bridge…Read More

Taxpayers need to show some discipline themselves

Here we go again, another election year. They show up every two years and, like hurricanes, generate a spark in an otherwise brain dead economy…Read More

250 people hear Crosstown Parkway bridge update

PORT ST. LUCIE — The process of deciding where to build a possible third bridge over the St. Lucie River began Thursday with plenty of public input. About 250 people filled the Community Center to hear an update on the Crosstown Parkway bridge, the final piece of the 6-mile-long east-west road…Read More

Port St. Lucie bridge in limbo until 2012

City officials will know by 2012 whether they will get the necessary permits for a possible third bridge over the St. Lucie River. City engineers and several transportation and environmental agencies have worked out the timetable for a fresh study of the proposed river crossing over the last few months. The bridge would be the final piece of Crosstown Parkway, a 6-mile-long road designed to relieve congestion on Port St. Lucie and Prima Vista boulevards…Read More

Port St. Lucie bridge in limbo until 2012 (forum posts)

City officials will know by 2012. If the bridge finally gains approval, the city would need another three years to design and build it, England said. And the cost will be ? in 2015. Where will the funds come from for the bridge? I said last year that the winners of the last PSL popularity contest would be long gone from office before this fiasco is over. Any bets Don THE BELOVED LEADER Cooper and the ventriloquist Orr will still be in charge of the city unless it's bankrupt by then…Read More


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