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Mr. Yesbeck explained that any widening they did would be just putting in paved shoulders to widen the road to bring it up to today's standards for a 2 -lane road. Commissioner Scurlock inquired about the item for SR 60 widening 1-95 west to the County line, 20 miles at a million dollars a mile, or a total of 20 million dollars, which is on a separate handout, and Director Davis explained that as staff received the early information regarding the new transportation legislation, we sat down with the City of Vero Beach and some of the other municipalities and came up with what they felt was a priority list to spend 13 million dollars. Realizing that the new transportation legislation also included a very hefty program for enhancement to the Turnpike system, it was felt that SR 60 was somewhat of a unique project in that it does link up with the Florida Turnpike, and that improving it might be considered an enhancement to the Turnpike system. Director Davis believed there is a program to look at the major E/W roadways in the state and come up with a plan to enhance those within the next 10 years. He doubted we can break this out and accelerate it prior to that program, and believed we will have to wait for the 4-laning of SR 60 for quite some years, but it will be improved. Commissioner Bird pointed out that SR 60 is a corridor which is a straight shot from the east coast of Florida to Tampa on the west coast, and he believed it is about the only one that is a straight route. Mr. Yesbeck agreed that SR 60 is a priority, and they do have 2 million or so set aside for it in Indian River County in 92/93, but that is for resurfacing. Commissioner Scurlock did not feel that is the long range solution. The whole thing needs to be reconstructed, and if we are doing that, we ought to'do it 4 lane. He asked if we could make that a toll road, and Commissioner Bowman asked about an Expressway Authority. 2110