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Florida’s Turnpike Enterprise welcomes you to the Design Public Hearing for the Florida Turnpike Mainline Widening project from Neptune Road to North of Osceola Parkway in Osceola County. Financial Project Identification Numbers 436194-1 and 436194-3. Thank you for your interest in this project.
The project is located in Osceola County, Florida along the Florida Turnpike, or State Road 91. This project consists of widening the Florida Turnpike from Neptune Road to North of Osceola Parkway, a distance of approximately 7 miles.
The project is split into two Financial Project Identification Numbers (FPIDs). FPID Number 436194-1 represents the Turnpike widening from Partin Settlement Road to North of Osceola Parkway, shown in orange. FPID Number 436194-3 represents the Turnpike widening from Neptune Road to Partin Settlement Road, shown in blue.
This exhibit depicts adjacent transportation projects currently being planned or designed near the Turnpike Widening Project from Neptune Road to North of Osceola Parkway.
The project objective is to improve travel times and emergency response times, accommodate transportation demand, and enhance economic development.
The existing four-lane typical section is shown with dashed lines.
The new typical section includes four 12-foot-wide travel lanes in each direction separated by a median concrete barrier wall. There is a 12-foot-wide shoulder near the median barrier wall and a 10-foot-wide shoulder on the outside of the travel lanes in each direction. Shoulder gutter is located on the outside of the outer shoulders on each side and, where necessary, guardrail is placed behind the shoulder gutter.
The centerline of the Turnpike will be shifted up to 53 feet to the east between Partin Settlement Road to north of Fortune Road.
The design for the Turnpike Widening from Partin Settlement Road to Osceola Parkway (FPID Number 436194-1) is anticipated to be completed by the fourth quarter of 2023. Right of way acquisition will be completed by the first quarter of 2024, and construction is anticipated to begin in the second quarter of 2024.
For the Turnpike Widening from Neptune Road to Partin Settlement Road (FPID Number 436194-3), the design is anticipated to be completed by the fourth quarter of 2025. Right of way acquisition will be completed by the first quarter of 2026, and construction is anticipated to begin in the second quarter of 2026.
Finally, construction is anticipated to be completed by the second quarter of 2028 for the entire project from Neptune Road to Osceola Parkway.
Your comments are essential to this process and will help Florida’s Turnpike Enterprise understand your concerns and suggestions for the project improvements presented. We encourage you to provide a written comment tonight. Or, if you prefer, you may mail your comments to P.O. Box 613069, Ocoee, FL 34761 or submit them by email to Suman.Juluru@dot.state.fl.us.
You can also submit your comments directly through the project website at www.TurnpikeNeptuneToOsceola.com. Verbal comments can be made to the court reporter present at the in-person meeting. Any comment received or postmarked on or before April 8, 2023, will become part of the Public Hearing record.
Persons wishing to express their concerns about Title VI compliance may do so by contacting either the Enterprise, or the Tallahassee office of the Florida Department of Transportation.
After this hearing, if you would like to speak with someone, please contact one of the following Florida’s Turnpike representatives:
Suman Juluru at 407-264-3424 or Suman.Juluru@dot.state.fl.us or Thomas Alexander at 407-264-3318 or Thomas.Alexander@dot.state.fl.us.