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Schools get sidewalk grant

By Staff | Dec 8, 2008

The Florida Department of Transportation has awarded more than $194,000 for two grants to build sidewalks in Lee County as a result of joint proposals by Lee County Public Schools and the cities of Fort Myers and Cape Coral.

A $72,000 project was awarded in Fort Myers for a sidewalk to Edgewood Academy on Tarpon Street from Palm Beach Boulevard to Edgewood Avenue. The Cape Coral project is estimated at $122,000 for sidewalks serving Gulf Elementary and Gulf Middle schools along Southwest 38th Terrace between Oasis Boulevard and Agualinda Boulevard. Both projects are expected to be started in 2010.

Florida’s Safe Routes to Schools Program, administered by the FDOT, is a competitive reimbursement grant program designed to make it easier and safer for children in grades K-8 to walk or bicycle between home and schools.

Proposals for three additional Lee County projects totaling approximately $598,000 were not funded in this grant cycle. Last year, The Lee County School District applied for and was awarded approximately $200,000 in a joint proposal with Lee County to build sidewalks on Sara Avenue in Lehigh Acres. That project is scheduled to commence in 2009.

Source: School District of Lee County