Alafaya Trail Extension Innovation Way Update January 2008
January 5, 2008
I recently received a very thorough response from Brian Sanders, Orange County Public Works, regarding the progress of the Alafaya Trail Extension, otherwise known as Innovation Way. This is the road that is planned to relieve traffic from the Avalon Park area.
In a nutshell:
The widening of Alafaya Trail from 2 lanes to 4 is still in the design phase. This phase is scheduled to be completed by April. Construction should begin December 2008 and be complete December 2010.
The Alafaya Trail Extension is 78% complete and should be finished by December 2008. The connection of the Alafaya Trail Extension to the Beachline (SR 528) is currently in the design phase. It is in the beginning stages of planning, but as of now, construction is anticipated to begin in 2010 and be complete 2012.
There are no other plans in place to relieve traffic from the Avalon Park neighborhood. Click here for more detailed information.
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Guy | March 8, 2008 at 10:15 pm
This is ridiculous. The whole point of the extension, Innovation Way, is to connect Alafaya Trail to SR 528. To build that road without a connector design is nothing but a waste of my tax dollars. I have been living in Stoneybrook for six years and have not seen any significant changes that would show me that relief is on the way other than a road that is only extending a dead end. Where is Linda Stewart? Why does this project keep getting prolonged? Where are my tax dollars going to? When can we get local media support to push this matter further to a quicker and defined solution? Does anybody care?
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Bob | June 29, 2008 at 6:12 pm
What is the latest news on the opening or not-opening of Innovation Way. Traffic is not getting any better for anyone using Alafaya Trail. To build this road with no way to use it until the 528 exchange is complete seems to be ridiculous. How true is that statement. and what is the planned opening of this road?? Is there a web-site to access this kind of info on Central Florida road projects?
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Mark | July 5, 2008 at 7:59 pm
We were one of the first to put money on a lot in Avalon back in 1998. I was told back then that it would be two years before we had a road going out to the Beachline. We moved in to Avalon in August of 1999 and once again I was told we were 2 years away from having a road connecting to the Beachline. Every couple years since then, I have inquired about the road only to be told that it would be another two years… It has now become a running joke around the neighborhood. Two years! I will believe it when its done.
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Marlon | July 24, 2008 at 1:53 am
What is the point of this road again? So, this road does in fact goes all the way to 528, right but without a ramp? Ok, ok, so since the county wishes to play silly games, how about we just make dust road ramp straight into 528, much like Texans do in rural parts of the state?
Who thinks of these things? Lets have a recall. Don’t mind how much the recall will cost. Who cares? After all, they don’t care how much they have spent on a useless road.
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MKTuba | August 13, 2008 at 10:38 am
From what i have heard they are trying to use a connecting road to use the interchange near the correction center.
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CJ Clontz | March 18, 2009 at 5:56 pm
I think that the people responsable for this idiotic “UNinovation Way” extension should be brought to justice! It is time to stop complaining and start doing something about this…unless we stand up and let them know how pissed we are at the stupidity of this road construction they will continue to brush us asside and do as they please. I suggest getting a permit to demonstrate and picket and rally at the entrance to “UN inovation Way” and get the media down there to put it on television!! If we bring enough bad publicity to them and if we find out the names of the particular people involved and shame them publicly maybe something will be resolved……having to wait till 2012 for a road to be finished is unacceptable and i still dont know why they cant in the mean time just connect it to Lee Vista right on the other side….i bet there is some issue with tolls that they want to build and the greedy money grubbers dont want to open it without a toll booth!!! Thats probably the real problem with the whole damn thing~!
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