Town of Davie starts roadway construction on SW 30th Street

PHOTO BY ANTONIO MIGUEL ESCORZON
Construction workers remove the asphalt off of the road using excavators.

The Town of Davie is expecting its roadway construction along SW 30th Street to last approximately 300 days. The multi-phased project began on Monday, Oct. 6.

Felix Leon, senior project manager in Design and Construction, said SW 30th Street will be blocked.

“Students and faculty are going to have to take an alternate route probably to University Drive or coming into Mary McCahill,” Leon said.

According to a statement from NSU Alert, the university’s emergency notification system, there will be “road closures progressively extending westward as the project advances.”

For the first three weeks of construction, the lane going from College Avenue and westward is barricaded from College Avenue to the entrance of the Shepard Broad College of Law Building. The other lane going to College Avenue remains open.

“[Construction workers] have to remove asphalt and start closing lanes to start putting barricades, cones and detour signs,” Leon said.

The next phases of the project will be extending the road construction, which will lead into Ray Ferrero Jr. Blvd and SW 75th Ave.

Leon said the Office of Facilities Management and the Town of Davie have been collaborating for the last 18 months to make the road safer for cyclists, drivers and locals by adding two bike lanes, as a result of the construction.

“The ultimate goal of this work is going to be to enhance drivability and pedestrian experience from College Avenue,” Leon said.