The four possible paths cut through a swath of eastern Polk County, with various impacts on development and the environment.

Lake Wales City Commissioners voted 5-0 to delay action on a proposed resolution stating opposition to the Central Polk ...

The Florida Turnpike Enterprise is exploring plans to build an extension of the Polk Parkway from SR-60 near Lake Wales north toward US-17/92 and I-4. As citrus groves that once covered the ...

Finally, FDOT has begun a study to consider improvements to U.S. 19 in Citrus and Levy counties. This project is exploring ways to improve traffic flow along U.S. 19 from the terminus of a 10-mile ...

Plans are moving forward for a $37 million bridge over Florida’s Turnpike that would take Lyons Road motorists from Flavor Pict Road east to Hagen Ranch Road.

MIRAMAR - A truck fire on the Florida Turnpike Extension in Miramar caused the temporary closure of the southbound lanes early Wednesday morning. According to the Miramar Fire Department ...

Average daily traffic on the extension is anticipated to swell from 160,000 vehicles a day to nearly 275,000 by 2019. The vision for Florida’s Turnpike started in the late 1940s, when a ...

The Florida Department of Transportation, which oversees the Turnpike Enterprise, has been considering extensions of the Polk Parkway since soon after it opened in 1998. The agency approved plans ...

The southbound lanes of the Florida Turnpike Extension were temporarily closed between University Drive and Red Road early Wednesday morning. Whoopi Goldberg Says ‘I Stand Behind’ Carrie ...