Project Highlights
- Part of the 1968 Concept Development Plan and then later incorporated into the Manatee County 1989 Comprehensive Plan and adopted Capital Improvements Plan
- Provides additional roadway capacity to meet anticipated County growth
- Construction on the first segment of the 44th Avenue East Extension project began in 2013
Community Benefits
- Additional new road capacity for approximately 36,000 more vehicles per day
- Reduces traffic demand on parallel thoroughfares (SR 64 and SR 70) by a combined 21,000 vehicles per day
- Provides an alternate route over I-75 that will allow local traffic to avoid adjacent interstate and state road interchanges
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Thursday, July 15, 2021
Crews are making progress on construction along 44th Avenue East in Manatee County, a project meant to improve traffic conditions on roadways that feed into Interstate-75.
Thursday, May 14, 2020
Construction workers began building another segment of the 44th Avenue East extension this week, extending the east-west connector further out toward Lakewood Ranch.
