Two northbound lanes of Military Trail in Palm Beach County reopened to traffic Thursday, 11 days after a Learjet crashed near Greenacres and left a crater in the roadway.
The Florida Department of Transportation said crews worked Wednesday to repair utilities and fill the crater. Workers continued overnight and into Thursday morning to open the northbound lanes, which had been closed from 10th Avenue to Forest Hill Boulevard.
FDOT said in a Facebook post that crews plan to pave the southbound lanes Thursday. Drivers should expect the work to continue in that direction.
Palm Beach County also began offering $250,000 on Thursday to help businesses and nonprofits that lost revenue because of the road closures this month.
Nine people died when the Learjet crashed. The plane had departed Austin, Texas, en route to the Bahamas. No one on the ground was seriously injured.
