County’s New Western Parkway Opens

	Cutting the ribbon (l-r) are County Engineer George Webb, Commission Chairman Jeff Koons, Indian Trail Improvement District Supervisors Carlos Enriquez, Michelle Damone, Mike Erickson and Carol Jacobs, Royal Palm Beach Village Council members David Swift, Mayor David Lodwick, Fred Pinto, Marge Webster and Matty Mattioli, Commissioner Jess Santamaria and County Administrator Bob Weisman. « Previous | Next »

April 8, 2009

County Commissioners Jess Santamaria and Jeff Koons, along with officials from the Village of Royal Palm Beach and the Indian Trail Improvement District, hosted a ribbon-cutting ceremony in Royal Palm Beach on April 8 to open the county's new Western Parkway reliever road. The new two-lane parkway, known previously as the Acreage reliever road and/or State Road 7 extension, will enable thousands of commuters from The Acreage to bypass village streets to get to and from Okeechobee Boulevard and State Road 7.

Western Parkway runs approximately 3½ miles north and west from the intersection of Okeechobee and State Road 7 through the beautiful Pond Cypress Natural Area to Persimmon Boulevard in The Acreage. The reliever road was built at cost of approximately $25 million, and funding is in place to extend Western Parkway an additional mile to 60th Street North in about two years.