ELLER DRIVE/ICTF OVERPASS—BROWARD COUNTY
Project # - 3906.005
Condemning Authority - State of Florida
The following information was created by the Florida Department of Transporation. For further information on this project, please visit their website: http://www.movingbroward.org/files17/Fact%20Sheet.pdf
PROJECT JUSTIFICATION
Eller Drive serves as the immediate link between Interstate 595 and the main entrance to Port Everglades (See Figure) Port Everglades’ expansion of the Southport yards will include the addition of a 40-acre Intermodal Container Transfer Facility (ICTF). The operation of this ICTF depends on the provision of a spur of the FEC rail line, (which presently runs parallel to Eller Drive), southward to the Southport yards and ICTF. Due to the increasing demand on Eller Drive from both cargo and cruise traffic, an at-grade crossing of the rail line would cause serious traffic queues diminishing operation and capacity. The study will focus on providing an efficient movement to and from the Port facility, while retaining and integrating the local access and traffic movements and improving the movement of vehicles between the Port and the Airport.
PROJECT CHARACTERISTICS
The project will encompass the evaluation of several Eller Drive overpass alternatives needed to span over the RR spur, which will serve the ICTF. The project will also consider the realignment of several Port roads such as Front Street, N.E. 7th Avenue and S.E. 14th Avenue as necessary to improve or maintain the local circulation of traffic.
PROJECT COSTS
At this early stage of development the approximate project costs are as follows:
Design : $ 1.5 million
CEI : $ 2.9 million
Construction : $ 17.3 million
Right-of-Way: $ 3.6 million
Total : $ 25.3 million
Preliminary Engineering and ROW is anticipated to be complete by the end of 2008 and construction should begin in 2010.
For further information regarding this project, call us at 866-339-7242.