Orlando-Orange County Expressway Authority

Residents of some communities near what that will become the Wekiva Parkway say they have a better route to complete a beltway around Orlando. If officials were to back that alternative route, however, the parkway would never get built. For starters,...

Drivers who inadvertently miss paying a toll or two could face a more lenient punishment under a plan being discussed by regional and state road officials. Many of the details remain in flux, but the biggest change being contemplated is to do away with...

You have to give Orange County Mayor Rich Crotty and the County Commission credit for one thing. They are entertaining. In considering one of the biggest development decisions in the county's history last week, they brought a three-ring circus to town....

Here's something positive from the lousy economy: Central Florida's roads are a little less clogged these days. Even though gas prices recently dropped below $3 a gallon, Metro Orlando residents are driving less -- so much less that traffic actually...

Central Florida's road-building agency spent about $125,000 for a survey released Wednesday that found 91 percent of motorists are satisfied with the automated toll system. Rich Crotty, chairman of the Orlando-Orange County Expressway Authority, was...

A state appeals court has reinstated the cases of as many as 7,000 motorists who didn't pay their tolls in Seminole County, meaning they could be liable to pay thousands of dollars in fines and have their drivers licenses suspended. The decision by the...

Mark Fields says he's spent about a third of his life fretting whether a planned toll road known as the Wekiva Parkway will barrel through the brick home he built with his own hands in rural Lake County. "We are sick. We feel like we are living in a...

Gov. Charlie Crist and the Cabinet agreed Tuesday to buy land critical to construction of a beltway around Orlando, two weeks after rejecting a higher-priced proposal. Instead of the original $37.5 million price tag, the deal now calls for state agencies...

Metro Orlando's toll-road agency agreed Wednesday to buy land crucial to construction of the Wekiva Parkway, even though one board member said he was "embarrassed" by the deal. "I find some of this to be outrageous," said Harvey Massey, a Winter Park...

Thursday's Orlando Sentinel editorial "Cabinet's vote against land buy mustn't stop Wekiva Parkway" was correct to urge the importance of constructing the parkway for Central Floridians. However, the editorial failed to illustrate just how unfair it would...

Welcome to the new, tighter-fisted Florida government. State leaders last week tried their best to put on a publicly confident face as Wall Street giants fell to their knees. But, as Tallahassee witnessed in its Hurricane Ike-inspired gas shortage,...

High gasoline prices and rising unemployment have combined to do what seemed almost impossible for more than a decade: drive down ridership and revenues on Metro Orlando's toll roads. Toll collections have fallen six months in a row on the 100 miles of...