Wider lanes and a roundabout are in store for Bayshore Boulevard, an arterial pathway connecting east-central residents with St. Lucie West and major roads.
Port St. Lucie expects to widen 1.3 miles of Bayshore between Selvitz Road and Prima Vista Boulevard starting the next fiscal year, according to a presentation given at a Jan. 28 public meeting. The construction comes with a price tag of $35 million to be funded by next year’s city budget.
The city also reported 60 percent completion on designing this segment of Bayshore as of Jan. 28. Bids for a contractor are expected to be sent out by Q4 2026.
The construction will proceed as planned, save for possible “limiting factors” like inclement weather affecting its scheduling, according to city communications director Scott Samples.
The Jan. 28 meeting to discuss changes to Bayshore attracted “more than 50” residents, Samples said.
Bayshore between Selvitz and Prima Vista, city schematics show, will be widened to a symmetrical layout of two 11-foot auto lanes; a 5-foot bike lane; and an 8-foot sidewalk in either direction.
The widening, city records add, arose from input from another public meeting held April 29. This road pattern, one of three the city presented to visitors that evening, garnered 14 out of 32 votes (43.75 percent). In turn, engineers from Mackenzie Engineering, Inc., of Stuart agreed with the public’s decision.
The Port St. Lucie City Council agreed to widen the road in this manner at their June 23, 2025, regular meeting.
The Floresta roundabout is intended to ease traffic congestion at the gridded intersection near Bayshore. According to studies conducted by Mackenzie, traffic flow reaches a bumper-to-bumper flow between Floresta and Prima Vista; the Selvitz roundabout, meanwhile, maintains a freer flow at the segment’s northern terminus.
The four-lane roadway will also ease traffic in this sector, which, studies show, is responsible for peak hour gridlock and numerous collisions.
Mackenzie counted as many as 421 collisions there between 2020 and 2024, city records show. Approximately 49 percent of them were rear-end collisions. Additionally, March was the most frequent month when collisions occurred, registering at 12 percent of all surveyed incidents.
The sector, city documents say, co-aligns with budgeting for multi-modal improvements in the 2045 Mobility Plan NUE Urban Concepts of Gainesville “completed in July 2023.” It is also included in the city’s 10-year Infrastructure Master Plan effective until 2035.