Southport Connector
The Southport Connector project in one form or another providing a road to connet Haines City to the west to Florida's turnpike to the east through the center of Poinciana is a road that has been talked about for more than 50 years as the Lakeland Ledger article below describes
The Southport Connector project is meant to significantly improve the traffic flow on Cypress Parkway through the center of Poinciana. It is also meant to provide a direct connection to the Florida Turnpike allowing Poinciana residents to either go north to Orlando bypassing the Kissimmee/192 area or heading south towards Miami
This project was presented to the Central Florida Board of Directors in March of 2018 but the decision was made not to move forward with the project because the project costs exceeding $1B could not be covered by the projected toll revenues alone.
Since then Osceola County and the landowners of land south of Lake Toho have come to a more favorable agreement to allow the project to purchase the required right of way. The Poinciana traffic volumes have increased significantly as well. As a result a new updated study is taking place built on tjhe 2018 study.
The new study has progressed to the point where CFX has published a web page describing the project and held several public meeting describing the project
The front page of the web site is pictured below.
The most contoversial section of the Southport Connector project is the Cypress Parkway segment. There was initially much opposition to the concept of an MSE wall elevated portion proposed to be built down the center of Cypress Parkway.
The latest proposal from CFX sonsists of a bridge section on the commercial section of Cypress Parkway and a Wall Portion in front of Solivita.
