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    Will a $1.6 billion highway save Central Florida’s Wekiva River — or doom it?

    By Kevin Spear, Orlando Sentinel,

    2024-06-16
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    Wekiva Parkway's bridges soar over the Wekiva River without touching its spring-fed currents. Other environental features of the parkway include extensive wildlife overpasses. Despite the parkway's environmentally friendly design, there are signs now that the superhighway could usher harmful growth into the area. [ RICARDO RAMIREZ BUXEDA | Orlando Sentinel ]

    The new and extraordinary superhighway conceived as the savior of the imperiled Wekiva River has begun to reveal itself to environmentalists as the threat they had feared all along.

    Completing the $1.6 billion Wekiva Parkway was a marathon, spanning decades of tough talks and compromise.

    Road builders and developers crusaded for the road to complete the 111-mile beltway around Orlando.

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