By Mary Hladky
Major construction on the new Diverging Diamond Interchange at Glades Road and Interstate 95 will wrap up ahead of schedule.
A fourth lane in each direction on Glades Road will be completed by March 31, state transportation officials told Boca Raton residents on March 2, ahead of the previously announced May 1 completion date. The roadway also will be paved and striped by then.
“We are working as quickly as possible to get the fourth lane open,” Aurelio Matos, Florida Department of Transportation senior project engineer for the interchange, told residents at a town hall meeting hosted by Mayor Scott Singer. “By the end of the month, we will have the final configuration.”
The fourth lanes will allow traffic to move more quickly through the interchange and improve safety, officials said.
That was welcome news to residents. One complained it took him 23 minutes to navigate the interchange in one direction and nearly 20 minutes in the other.
The project won’t be completely finished until May 1 though. Still to be completed are the removal of old ramps and creation of drainage ponds, which will be graded and sodded.
Work is continuing to synchronize the interchange’s traffic signals to further alleviate delays and congestion.
The FDOT and the city have five cameras on the project, which allows them to make tweaks as they go. Matos said there have been no issues with people driving in the wrong direction.
The project was launched in March 2021. The new interchange opened in “temporary condition” on Jan. 30.
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