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3 weeks ago Share Verizon hopes a 110-foot cell tower will be built in 2022 in Lakewood Ranch to help residents still struggling with service. Cell phone coverage radius Small cell site: Up to 2,000 feet Cell tower: About two miles in an urban area, depending on terrain and number of users Sean Moran moved to Country Club West in August. Moran is a long-time Verizon customer who had always been happy with the coverage provider. Then he discovered a problem many Lakewood Ranch residents before him have had. The cell service in his own home was spotty. His phone hadn’t been dropping calls, but the audio quality was often poor enough that his family members could only catch every other word he said.
3 weeks ago Share Work in the intersection of Lorraine Road and State Road 70 will be complete later this month. Facts about the Lorraine Road/State Road 70 project Start date: March 1, 2020 Scheduled completion: End of March 2021 Cost: $2.66 million ($1.53 million by Manatee County) Manatee County partner: Publix Two Lorraine Road construction projects — one that’s been underway for a year, and one that started this month — are scheduled to be completed by the end of March. A project to improve the intersection at Lorraine Road and State Road 70, which began in March 2020, is likely to wrap up by the end of the month. Meanwhile, resurfacing work on two sections of Lorraine Road began in March and will likely be completed by the end of March.
Manatee County scheduled road projects 44th Avenue East Projected cost: $101,304,276 Estimated completion: Dec. 2029 Moccasin Wallow Road What: Three-segment plan to widen from two lanes to four or six, depending on the segment, from U.S. Route 301 to U.S. Route 41 Projected cost: $42,226,247 Estimated completion: Dec. 2025 What: Reconstruction of Verna Bethany Road to align with Verna Road at State Road 70 Projected cost: $2,519,682 Estimated completion: Dec. 2023 Manatee County commissioners have stated their desire to make road construction a top priority in the next year. However, they said deciding which projects come first and how to pay for those projects is more difficult.