Tampa Tribune: County leaders allocate $1.2 million to resurface Bayshore

Before the Republican National Convention comes to Tampa, drawing thousands of people including those with the national media and Fortune 500 companies, Hillsborough County officials want to make sure the area's signature roadway is sufficiently smooth.

County commissioners today voted 4-2 to resurface Bayshore Boulevard between Rome Avenue and Gandy Boulevard within the next several months.

The 2.9-mile stretch of asphalt will be resurfaced at a cost of nearly $1.2 million – the second-most expensive paving project the county has scheduled in the next three years.

The repaving will take a few months and be completed by Aug. 1. The job previously was scheduled to begin in 2014, but the commissioners' vote moved the project forward in the county's repaving schedule.

Funding won't come at the expense of other county road projects. Instead the money will come from a gas tax reserve fund and from excess funding for a reconstruction project along Boyette Road.

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