Xpress 400
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Xpress 400 was a plan for tolled express lanes on Interstate 4 through Orlando, Florida, to supplement the four free lanes in each direction. The lanes, two in each direction, would stretch roughly from Longwood to Universal Orlando. Although express lanes are still planned in the current master plan for I-4, plans are no longer on the books for them to be tolled, and therefore the "Xpress 400" name has ceased to be used for them.
Access is planned at the following locations. Slip ramps access the leftmost lanes of the main roadways, and thus have no immediate access to interchanges.
- Slip ramps - eastbound on/westbound off west of Kirkman Road
- Eastbound on/westbound off at Kirkman Road
- Slip ramps - all directions near Conroy Road
- Slip ramps - eastbound off/westbound on near Orange Blossom Trail
- All directions at South Street
- Eastbound on/westbound off at Ivanhoe Boulevard
- Slip ramps - eastbound off/westbound on east of Lee Road
- Slip ramps - eastbound off/westbound on east of Maitland Boulevard
- Eastbound off/westbound on at Central Parkway
- Slip ramps - eastbound off/westbound on east of SR 434
These express lanes were originally expected to be built using tolls for funding. Tolls would have been collected electronically via transponders like SunPass and Orlando-Orange County Expressway Authority's E-Pass. This toll would have depended on congestion on the main lanes. However, local U.S. Representative John Mica (R-FL) passed a rider in the SAFETEA-LU Federal transportation bill of 2005 that prohibited using tolls to fund the project.
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- Toll idea advances despite opposition, Orlando Sentinel March 16, 2005 page 1
