A huge, raised traffic circle is being built in addition to a roadway extension for simply over $300 million in Orange County, Florida. Local management hopes it will help relieve anticipated traffic to Universal Orlando Resort’s Epic Universe opening in summer season 2025.
Traffic Circle Concept Rendering
The prepared roadway enhancements will extend Kirkman Road 1.7 miles from Carrier Drive to Universal Boulevard. The task strategy likewise consists of a raised traffic circle, with the hopes that the huge piece of facilities will assist with a few of the awaited traffic to the location.
Ken Leeming, Orange County highway building supervisor, notified News 13 that “one of the main features of the project is an elevated traffic circle. That’s going to be used to facilitate traffic distribution to the Universal property.” The roadway is anticipated to be completed in late 2024. Epic Universe, Universal’s most recent amusement park addition, is scheduled for a summer season 2025 opening.
Leeming likewise mentioned the roadway is “fully multimodal, the first one in Orange County. It provides bicycle/pedestrian facilities, it provides three travel lanes in each direction for general use and it also provides dedicated bus lanes, which will assist in distributing traffic to the Universal park.”
News 13’s Twitter post with the principle making can be seen listed below.
Universal will be paying simply over half the predicted cost for this task at $160 million. Orange County controversially contributed $125 million for the task, and the state of Florida given $16 million towards the cost too. The total expected bill for this infrastructure addition is just over $300 million.
The county provided significant funding in hopes the new road extension and traffic circle would alleviate some of the congestion on International Drive. This route will provide another option for travelers going north or south in the main attractions area.
Construction Work Underway
Anyone driving through the area knows there is significant construction work for the task already underway. Below is footage captured today. News 13 was also given access to the construction area to capture some ground-level footage of the progress so far.
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