MAITLAND, Fla. — A new pedestrian bridge over I-4 in Maitland won’t look the same was Florida Department of Transportation engineers imagined when its plans first came to light.
The department announced Tuesday that the bridge will have a different, simpler look when it’s built over the interstate at Maitland Boulevard.
The change will allow for a quicker construction timeline and fewer closures of I-4 to make it happen, FDOT said.
I-4 officials said they would have had to close I-4 upward of 100 times to construct the original design.
The new design, they said, will only require a dozen closures to build the bridge in a year.
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