{"id":233857,"date":"2026-04-16T06:11:47","date_gmt":"2026-04-16T06:11:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/233857\/"},"modified":"2026-04-16T06:11:47","modified_gmt":"2026-04-16T06:11:47","slug":"cfx-proposes-sr-515-toll-road-for-osceola-county","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/233857\/","title":{"rendered":"CFX proposes SR 515 toll road for Osceola County"},"content":{"rendered":"

OSCEOLA COUNTY, Fla. \u2014\u00a0The Central Florida Expressway Authority<\/a> is about to show the public its preferred choice for the last link of its \u201cSouthern Beltway.\u201d<\/p>\n

What You Need To Know<\/p>\n

Central Florida Expressway Authority is hosting public workshops on the alignment for the proposed SR-515
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SR-515 would connect Florida\u2019s Turnpike to SR-534 at Nova Road
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The toll road is the last piece of the puzzle for the \u201cSouthern Beltway\u201d<\/p>\n

The \u201cSouthern Beltway\u201d is a collection of toll roads that create a half circle in Osceola County.<\/p>\n

The goal is to reduce congestion that has been known to plague many of the streets in the county.<\/p>\n

\u201cWhat we\u2019re going to ultimately see is with the \u2018Southern Beltway\u2019 that regional traffic is going to get off the local roads and free those up for the local trips,\u201d said Brian Hutchings, senior manager of community relations at the Central Florida Expressway Authority.<\/p>\n

Osceola County is the quickest growing county in Central Florida, and according to the Bureau of Economic and Business Research, they expect a 37% population increase in less than 25 years.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe used to never be able to hear the road,\u201d said Natalie Cole, who runs a sheep farm in the Harmony area. \u201cI think now on a daily (basis), you hear the sirens, you hear the cars, you hear everything that\u2019s going on out there.\u201d<\/p>\n

Most of the projects for the \u201cSouthern Beltway\u201d are in the design, planned for design, or getting ready for construction phase.<\/p>\n

The last piece of the puzzle for the beltway is the State Road 515 Northeast Connector<\/a>, a proposed 15 to 20 mile expressway that would connect Florida\u2019s Turnpike to US-192 near Harmony and up to Nova Road at the future State Road 534.<\/p>\n

The expressway authority is hosting alternative public workshops on the project.<\/p>\n

They will hold a virtual workshop on April 22, from 6 p.m. to 7:30 p.m. You can pre-register here<\/a>.<\/p>\n

On Thursday, April 23, they will hold an in-person workshop from 5:30 p.m. until 7:30 p.m. at the St. Cloud Community Center at 3101 17th St.<\/p>\n

\u201cWhen we start these projects, there\u2019s multiple potential alignments that we look at,\u201d said Hutchings. \u201cAnd then with our community engagement and our engineering team, we try to refine it and refine it until ultimately we bring forth a single proposed alignment.\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n

They have recommended that this section be Alignment G, which would go south of Lake Gentry and Brick Lake, in between Cat Lake and Lake Conlin.<\/p>\n

According to the expressway authority\u2019s analysis, Alignment G has the least impact on homes compared to other proposed routes.<\/p>\n

\u201cIt could help, it could hurt, it could bring us more traffic or it could help alleviate some of our traffic,\u201d said Cole, who\u2019s on the fence about the project.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"OSCEOLA COUNTY, Fla. \u2014\u00a0The Central Florida Expressway Authority is about to show the public its preferred choice for…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":233858,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[274,2173,2175,7444,2176,115,139,141,140,6505,1976,278,2180,729,2177,835],"class_list":{"0":"post-233857","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-orlando","8":"tag-app-top-stories","9":"tag-app-traffic-transit","10":"tag-app-traffic-and-transit","11":"tag-getting-there","12":"tag-jerry-hume","13":"tag-news","14":"tag-orlando","15":"tag-orlando-headlines","16":"tag-orlando-news","17":"tag-osceola","18":"tag-osceola-county","19":"tag-top-stories","20":"tag-topic-latest-traffic-transit-news","21":"tag-traffic","22":"tag-traffic-and-transit","23":"tag-vod"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/233857","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=233857"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/233857\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/233858"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=233857"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=233857"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=233857"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}