More Lanes Coming to I-95 on the Southside: FDOT Says Construction Starts Soon on Widening From I-295 to Butler Boulevard to 10 Lanes

The Southside's stretch of I-95 is next. The Florida Department of Transportation says construction will start soon on widening I-95 from I-295 to J. Turner Butler Boulevard, and that the interstate will expand to 10 lanes between those two interchanges, First Coast News reported in a video file read by the desk this run, with the department's statement carried in the report's own description.

That segment is the hinge of the Southside commute: it carries traffic between the I-295 beltway's south interchange and the Butler Boulevard corridor that feeds the Southpoint and Deerwood office districts, the Town Center area, and the Beaches-bound flow that peels off at JTB. Ten lanes there follows the pattern FDOT has already built on the west side, where the I-10 widening from I-295 to I-95 rebuilt that interstate as a 10-lane divided roadway - a $176.6 million design-build project whose engineer-of-record record the desk read this run.

Downtown, the companion work continues in parallel: FDOT's I-95/I-10 interchange improvements, a $126 million federally financed project on budget in the trade-press account the desk read this run, widen the Fuller Warren Bridge to four lanes in each direction with a shared-use path and build a dedicated ramp meant to cut the weaving merge from I-95 southbound to I-10 westbound.

No lane-closure schedule for the Southside widening was published in the announcement the desk read, and the desk invents none: the AM drive file will carry closures and detours as FDOT District 2 posts them. What drivers have today is the announcement itself - the project is real, the limits are I-295 to Butler, the finished width is 10 lanes, and construction starts soon, in the department's words.