Bird's-eye view: Drone shows Oslo Road work toward I-95 interchange south of Vero Beach

Brian Mercuri
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INDIAN RIVER COUNTY − It's been five months since work began on western Oslo Road. Drone photos and video show what's being done west of 58th Avenue.

Plans are for a bridge replacement and an Interstate 95 interchange.

Drone shows construction on Oslo Road at 58th Avenue in Indian River County at noon Jan. 18, 2024. Work is being done on a bridge replacement with an Interstate 95 interchange at Oslo Road that began Aug. 14, 2023. The $95.8 million project is expected to take four years to complete.
Drone shows construction on Oslo Road at 58th Avenue in Indian River County at noon Jan. 18, 2024. Work is being done on a bridge replacement with an Interstate 95 interchange at Oslo Road that began Aug. 14, 2023. The $95.8 million project is expected to take four years to complete.

The $95.8 million undertaking wasn't expected to begin until 2026, according to Brian Freeman, Metropolitan Planning Organization staff director. It moved forward only when the Florida Department of Transportation received money from the American Rescue Plan.

The American Rescue Plan Act of 2021, also called the COVID-19 Stimulus Package is a $1.9 trillion economic stimulus bill bill signed into law by President Joe Biden on March 11, 2021, to speed up the country's recovery from the economic and health effects of the COVID-19 pandemic and recession.

Drone shows construction on Oslo Road at 58th Avenue in Indian River County at noon Jan. 18, 2024. Work is being done on a bridge replacement with an Interstate 95 interchange at Oslo Road that began Aug. 14, 2023. The $95.8 million project is expected to take four years to complete.
Drone shows construction on Oslo Road at 58th Avenue in Indian River County at noon Jan. 18, 2024. Work is being done on a bridge replacement with an Interstate 95 interchange at Oslo Road that began Aug. 14, 2023. The $95.8 million project is expected to take four years to complete.

Much of the property along Oslo Road east of I-95 is zoned industrial. One property northeast of the new interchange, currently zoned agricultural, is designated on future land-use maps as industrial.

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