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 Crystal Lake Drive. Now the agency is in the final stretch of a $640 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.
The Expressway Authority in October 2006 began the $125 million widening of SR 408 from Conway Road to Oxalis Avenue. The project features the removal of the existing Holland East Main Toll Plaza and replacing it with two split plazas, to be known as the Conway West and the Conway East plazas. Also, the westbound SR 408 exit to Semoran Boulevard will be reconfigured to exit directly onto SR 436 at a signalized intersection, improving safety for motorists. The Expressway Authority also is improving 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.
Starting in the summer of 2010 the Expressway Authority will continue the widening of SR 408 from Oxalis Avenue to SR 417, as well as improvements to 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 S.R. 408.
Click here for a fact sheet on the widening of SR 408.
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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