This has been in the works for quite a while, I believe there are 10 affected species on tens of thousands of acres. Links to discussions from when there were 9 developments planned have been scrubbed: now there are 20.
The Legislature identified three corridors for new toll roads, with the exact routes to be determined. The longest would run between Southwest Florida and Central Florida. The shortest would connect Florida’s Turnpike to the Suncoast Parkway. The third road would extend the Suncoast Parkway to I-10 and the Georgia state line.
A year ago, the Florida Legislature conceived a program to create three new toll roads totaling 330 miles across Florida’s hinterlands — the largest toll-road project in the country.
If nothing else, the idea was ambitious. The Legislature specified that the new tollways would be planned, designed and completed in under 10 years — by 2030. It took 11 years from the passage of a 1953 bill creating Florida’s Turnpike to build the 265 miles from Miami to Wildwood, Florida’s Turnpike mainline. The new highways would increase the turnpike system mileage by 68% from its current 498 miles (“Florida’s Turnpike Enterprise,” page 90).
https://www.floridatrend.com/article/29149/floridas-plan-to-build-330-miles-of-new-toll-roads
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