The Florida Dept. of Transportation has tapped a team led by ACS Infrastructure Development Inc. (ACSID), Coral Gables, Fla., to design, build, finance, operate and maintain for 35 years the $1.8-billion I-595 Corridor Improvement Project. The approximately 10.5-mi Interstate 595 project in Broward County will add three reversible express variable toll lanes at grade in the median and additional auxiliary lanes, reconstruct entrance and exit ramps to remove merge conflicts, connect a frontage road between Davie Road and State and implement a bus rapid transit system. FDOT anticipates a summer 2009 start, with work to wrap up in 2014.
“There is no road project like this in the history of FDOT,” says FDOT District 4 Secretary Jim Wolfe. “We will deliver these express lanes and braided ramps and all of the improvements 16 years earlier than projected, and we are doing it at a present-day project cost of $275 million less than conventional [design-bid-build].”