ST. PETERSBURG, Fla. - I-275 traffic can be a real headache at times. It's why the Florida Department of Transportation is promising relief, though, with a plan to widen the interstate and add more express lanes in Pinellas County .

"We have a lot of people that want to go a lot of places," Andrew Williams, a senior construction project manager for FDOT, said. "It's all these different areas that kind of connect together that will help get major benefits with these express lanes, just giving people the option to choose something else besides the general use lanes."

What we know:

Crews started clearing for the widening project in August. They’ll add tolled express lanes to a seven-and-a-half mile stretch from Fourth Street North to 38th Avenue North.

Two express lanes will run fro

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