ROADSKY TRAFFIC SAFETY CORPORATION

BELLE GLADE, Fla. - The Florida Department of Transportation is installing something new guardrails by hydraulic pile drivers along State Road 80.

It's the first part of a guardrail plan that some think should have installed years ago.

“I don't understand why they don’t have guardrails and that up. I mean to me it's dangerous especially when it gets foggy if there is no guardrails," said Joanne Jackson of Belle Glade.

Plans for 18 miles of guardrails will be install by hydraulic pile drivers on the north and south sides of state road 80 approaching Belle Glade are on the fast track.

Guardrails project was supposed to start this fall but will now start in July after bids for the work start in April.

Last week, FDOT announced the plan's new timeline of guardrails project, a plan that comes only two weeks after a deadly accident

On February 12th, a mother and her 2 children died when their car crashed into a canal east of Belle Glade because of no guardrails installed by hydraulic pile drivers.

That made 12 people in the last 7 years who have died in canal crashes on that deadly stretch of State Road 80.

Palm Beach County commissioners demanded FDOT move the guardrails project installed by hydraulic pile drivers.

But until guardrails installed by hydraulic pile drivers are in place some drivers still feel uneasy.

"The roads as they are right now are really unsafe. Especially in some of these sharp turns without any protection from guardrails or anything," said John Virgil of Belle Glade.

The entire guardrails project installed by hydraulic pile drivers is expected to cost 4.3 million dollars.