Florida State Road 408
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State Road 408 (SR 408), officially named the Spessard L. Holland East–West Expressway, is a
A short connection to
Route description
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SR 408 begins at
SR 408 runs almost entirely parallel to State Road 50 throughout its entire route.
Tolls
There are four mainline toll plazas on the tollway. Each of them have at least two express lanes dedicated to
The current toll rates took effect in July 2012.[6]
History
Initial segment
The
The final design took SR 408 across
The west half, from SR 50 to Mills Avenue, opened October 26, 1973. The rest was completed by December 11. The two barrier toll plazas – Holland West and Holland East – each charged 20 cents, while the ramp tolls – present at
Most tolls were doubled on January 1, 1987.[7]
Eastern extension
Prior to the start of construction on the eastern extension, the
By 1984, the alignment of the eastern extension of SR 408 had been chosen. The area was planned to be developed, and the OOCEA hoped to build the road before development made that impossible. Construction began in 1987, and the west piece, from existing SR 408 (redesignated SR 4080) to Rouse Road, opened May 12, 1989. The rest of the six-mile (10 km) road opened in June, with a total cost of $105 million. This project included a full
Western extension
A connection to
Later changes
Tolls were again raised July 1, 1990, to 75 cents at barrier tolls and 50 cents on ramps. After public backlash, an experiment began October 11, 1992, in which some of the changes were reverted. The Hiawassee Road and Dean Road barriers were dropped back to 50 cents, and ramp tolls at Hiawassee Road, Valencia College Lane, Dean Road and Rouse Road were cut to 25 cents. The OOCEA board voted on June 17, 1993, to make the changes permanent.[7]
Due to confusion resulting from the four named toll roads in the Orlando area (East–West Expressway,
At some point in the late 1990s, the
All the mainline toll plazas were reconstructed with express
At the western end of the expressway a new set of ramps to Florida's Turnpike opened in August 2006. Previously it was only possible for westbound traffic to go northbound on the Turnpike. A new ramp allows traffic to also go southbound on the Turnpike. Likewise, previously only southbound Turnpike traffic could exit onto eastbound TOLL 408. A new ramp on the northbound Turnpike allows traffic to enter eastbound TOLL 408. New west facing ramps opened in March 2007 at Good Homes Road, joining pre-existing east facing ramps.
Starting in September 2003, a $600 million widening project occurred in the central and western part of the road. As part of the project, two through lanes were added along the entire length of the expressway from Hiawassee Road in the west to Oxalis Road (just east of the SR 436 interchange) in the east. The section from downtown Orlando to Hiawassee Road was completed in Spring 2007. The entire project was completed in June 2010.
In the summer of 2010, the Expressway Authority began the widening of SR 408 from Oxalis Avenue to Goldenrod Road as well as the widening of the SR 408 Chickasaw Trail Bridge. This project was completed in March 2012.[8] In addition, the interchange with SR 417 was expanded. This resulted in the elimination of SR 4080 and the interchange with Valencia College Lane. Traffic to Valencia College was redirected to Chickasaw Trail and Dean Road.[9]
On October 13, 2016, Central Florida Expressway board members approved to rename a portion of SR 408 after professional golfer Arnold Palmer. State Representative Mike Miller and State Senator David H. Simmons sponsored legislation for renaming the road, which was signed into law by Governor Rick Scott on June 14, 2017. The section of SR 408 between Kirkman Road and Clarke Road was renamed the Arnold Palmer Expressway on July 1, 2017.[10]
A
Future
Eastern Extensions
The OOCEA 2025 Master Plan (2000) suggested extending SR 408 further east toward the west end of SR 520.[12] In the OOCEA 2030 Master Plan, this proposed extension was further extended to I-95 in Brevard County.[13]
So far, the SR 408 Eastern Extension project has been put on hold. [1] The alternative solution, dubbed the Colonial Parkway has been shelved by Florida's Turnpike Enterprise (FTE) [14] so as of now the extension is still sitting on hold
Talks of extending SR 408 south past
Western Improvements
Florida's Turnpike Enterprise is currently planning to widen Florida's Turnpike from 8 to 12 lanes from SR 408 in Gotha to SR 50/West Colonial Drive near Oakland and Clermont which includes interchange improvements at Florida's Turnpike/SR 429(Daniel Webster Western Beltway) and SR 408 by constructing an 8 lane (4 lanes in both directions) Collector/Distributor System, connecting SR 408 with SR 429 without having to take Florida's Turnpike mainline, which helps drastically decrease the congestion and weaving between the two expressways on the Turnpike.[17]
Exit list
The entire route is in Orange County.
Location | mi[1][2] | km | Exit | Destinations | Notes | |
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Miami | Directional T interchange; exit 265 on Florida's Turnpike (SR 91) | |||||
| 0.898 | 1.445 | 1 | SR 50 (West Colonial Drive) | Half-Y interchange; westbound exit and eastbound entrance; access to Health Central; transition from FTE to CFX maintenance | |
| 1.552 | 2.498 | 2 | Good Homes Road | Trumpet/partial cloverleaf interchange; tolled eastbound exit and westbound entrance | |
| 2.3[18] | 3.7 | Hiawassee Mainline Toll Plaza | |||
| 3.335 | 5.367 | 4 | Hiawassee Road | Diamond interchange; tolled westbound exit and eastbound entrance | |
Orlo Vista | 4.520 | 7.274 | 5 | SR 435 (Kirkman Road) | Diamond interchange | |
| 5.112 | 8.227 | 6 | CR 431 (Pine Hills Road) | Half diamond interchange; westbound exit and eastbound entrance | |
| 5.5[18] | 8.9 | Pine Hills Mainline Toll Plaza | |||
| 6.191 | 9.963 | 7 | CR 526 (Old Winter Garden Road) | Half diamond interchange; tolled westbound exit and eastbound entrance | |
| 7.272 | 11.703 | 8A | SR 423 (John Young Parkway) | Diamond interchange; tolled westbound exit and eastbound entrance | |
Orlando | 7.936 | 12.772 | 8B | Tampa Avenue | Half diamond interchange; eastbound exit and westbound entrance | |
8.447 | 13.594 | 9 | SR 600 | |||
9.017 | 14.511 | 10A | I-4 – Tampa, Daytona Beach | Four-level cloverstack interchange; signed as exit 10 westbound; exit 82A on I-4 (SR 400) | ||
9.629 | 15.496 | 10B | Downtown Orlando | Eastbound exit and westbound entrance; former exit 10C; to Orlando Regional Medical Center | ||
9.629 | 15.496 | 11A | Rosalind Avenue ( SR 527) | Half diamond interchange; westbound exit and eastbound entrance; to Orlando Regional Medical Center | ||
10.292 | 16.563 | 11B | Mills Avenue ( SR 15 ) | Three-quarter diamond interchange; tolled eastbound exit; no westbound entrance | ||
11.21 | 18.04 | 12A | Bumby Avenue (via SR 15 south) | Half diamond interchange; tolled eastbound exit and westbound entrance | ||
11.71 | 18.85 | 12B | Crystal Lake Drive (via SR 526 | |||
11.917– 12.239 | 19.179– 19.697 | Lake Underhill bridge | ||||
12.484 | 20.091 | 13 | SR 15 (South Conway Road) | Half-Y interchange; tolled eastbound exit and westbound entrance | ||
13.1[18] | 21.1 | Conway East-West Mainline Toll Plaza | ||||
13.750 | 22.128 | 14 | SR 436 (Semoran Boulevard) / Andes Avenue – Airport | Hybrid half diamond and partial cloverleaf interchange; Tolled interchange except westbound entrance | ||
Goldenrod Road ) | Diamond interchange; Access to AdventHealth East Orlando | |||||
| 15.81 | 25.44 | 17 | Chickasaw Trail to Valencia College Lane | Half diamond interchange; eastbound exit and westbound entrance | |
| 17.029 | 27.406 | 18 | SR 417 – Orlando International Airport, Sanford | Cloverstack interchange; exit 33 on SR 417 | |
| 17.856 | 28.736 | 19 | Dean Road ( CR 425 ) | Diamond interchange; tolled eastbound exit and westbound entrance | |
| 18.4[18] | 29.6 | Dean Mainline Toll Plaza | |||
| 19.126 | 30.780 | 20 | Rouse Road | Trumpet/partial cloverleaf interchange; tolled westbound exit and eastbound entrance | |
Waterford Lakes | 20.327 | 32.713 | 21 | Alafaya Trail | Half diamond interchange; eastbound exit and westbound entrance; Access to Waterford Lakes Town Center | |
| 21.958 | 35.338 | 23 | SR 50 (East Colonial Drive) | Partial cloverleaf interchange; eastbound exit and westbound entrance; end of CFX maintenance | |
| 22.107 | 35.578 | Challenger Parkway | Continuation east to Central Florida Research Park | ||
1.000 mi = 1.609 km; 1.000 km = 0.621 mi |
Challenger Parkway
Route description
Challenger Parkway (local/non-tolled) begins right after SR 408 ends at an interchange with SR 50. It then intersects with Woodbury Road then turns westward, intersecting with 2 streets with a traffic stop, Ingenuity Drive and Challenger Tech Court then ends at SR 434 (Alafaya Trail) in a traffic stop.
See also
References
- ^ a b "Florida Department of Transportation Interchange Report" (PDF). Florida Department of Transportation. 2008-11-24. p. 19. Archived from the original (PDF) on 2012-02-08. Retrieved 2009-07-27.
- ^ a b "Straight-Line Diagrams Online GIS Web Application". fdotewp1.dot.state.fl.us. Retrieved 2022-10-19.
- ^ "FDOT GIS data". Archived from the original on June 23, 2007.
- ^ The Florida Department of Transportation Roadway Characteristics Inventory lists SR 4080 as "EAST CONN TO 50". It also appeared on some maps, including those produced by the Dolph Map Company.
- ^ The Florida Department of Transportation Roadway Characteristics Inventory lists SR 4081 as "WEST CONN TO 50".
- ^ "2012 Toll Facilities Reference Manual" (PDF). Orlando-Orange County Expressway Authority. July 2012. pp. 25–43. Archived from the original (PDF) on 16 May 2013. Retrieved 9 October 2012.
- ^ ISBN 0-9714713-0-4. Archived from the original(PDF) on 2008-04-07.
- ^ Sr 408 Widening Initiative Archived 2013-05-22 at the Wayback Machine
- OOCEA SR408-SR417 North Interchange Improvement Project "Archived copy" (PDF). Archived from the original (PDF) on 2011-12-11. Retrieved 2012-03-23.)
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: CS1 maint: archived copy as title (link - ^ "State of Florida Designates Western SR 408 as Arnold Palmer Expressway" (Press release). Central Florida Expressway Authority. June 30, 2017. Retrieved November 9, 2018.
- ^ "Money For Interchange Project Runs Out". WFTV. March 26, 2009. Archived from the original on September 19, 2010.
- ^ History of the Orlando-Orange County Expressway Authority, Chapter 16[permanent dead link]; see the page labeled Page 218 (PDF document page 14)
- ^ https://www.oocea.com/Portals/0/DigArticle/65/2030_Expansion_Map.pdf[permanent dead link]
- ^ https://www.bizjournals.com/orlando/news/2020/06/15/floridas-turnpike-holds-off-on-11-billion.html
- ^ https://www.cfxway.com/agency-information/plans-studies/project-studies/northeast-connector-expressway-extension/
- ^ https://www.osceola.org/core/fileparse.php/2731/urlt/060216_NorthRanchElementDataAndAnalysis.pdf
- ^ https://floridasturnpike.com/turnpike-projects/featured-projects/widen-turnpike-pde-sr-408-to-sr-50/
- ^ a b c d Google Maps distance