STATE ROAD 408 CONSTRUCTION PROJECTS
SR 408 Widening
Expressway Authority Nearing End of State Road 408 Expansion
Since August 2003, the Expressway Authority has successfully widened and beautified State Road 408 from Hiawassee Road to Oxalis Avenue. Now the agency is in the final stretch of a $675 million expansion program on the heavily traveled East-West Expressway. Improvements include converting mainline toll plazas to include Express Lanes and adding cash and receipt lanes. The projects also result in additional through lanes, expanded interchanges, aesthetically pleasing sound walls, decorative bridge columns and pylons, planter walls and installing landscaping.
In October 2006, the Expressway Authority began the $125 million widening of SR 408 from Conway Road to Oxalis Avenue. The project featured the removal of the Holland East Main Toll Plaza and replaced it with two split plazas, known as the Conway East and Conway West plazas. Also, the westbound SR 408 exit to Semoran Boulevard was reconfigured to exit directly onto SR 436 at a signalized intersection, improving safety for motorists. The Expressway Authority also improved Lake Underhill Road between Conway Road and Mercado Avenue as part of this project, which was completed in July 2009.
In April 2010 the Expressway Authority completed the $77 million widening of SR 408 between Crystal Lake Drive and Conway Road. All travel lanes opened on this project in November 2009. This project also featured a new pedestrian walkway alongside the SR 408 Lake Underhill Bridge that completes the loop around the southern portion of Lake Underhill for joggers and walkers to enjoy. The pedestrian walkway opened to the public on March 6, 2010.
In September 2011, the Expressway Authority will begin widening SR 408 between Goldenrod Road and Chickasaw Trail. 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. The SR 408 Chickasaw Trail Bridge project was completed in June 2011 and the SR 408 widening from Oxalis Avenue to Goldenrod is scheduled to be completed in late 2011. Future phases will include the complete redesign of the SR 408 / SR 417 interchange.
Please access the Roadwork Update page of the web site to see when construction or lane closures might be taking place along SR 408.
Click below for widening of SR 408 fact sheets:
For information on the Expressway Authority portion of the SR 408 -
East-West Expressway, contact:
Brian Hutchings
Public Information Officer
407-383-5817
construction@oocea.com
For information on the Florida's Turnpike Enterprise portion of the SR 408 -
East-West Expressway, contact:
Christa Deason
Florida's Turnpike Enterprise Headquarters
Public Information Office
PO Box 613069
Ocoee, FL 34761
407-264-3492
christa.deason@dot.state.fl.us
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