Poinciana Parkway
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| Poinciana Parkway | |
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| Maintained by OCX | |
| Length: | 7.2 mi (11.6 km) |
| Existed: | April 30, 2016 – present |
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| West end: | Polk-Osceola County line |
| East end: |
 CR 580 (Cypress Parkway) in Poinciana
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| Counties: | Osceola |
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 Alignments under study for I-4 Connector
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Alignments under study for Southport Connector
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The Poinciana Parkway, also known as Florida State Road 538, is a 7.2-mile (11.6 km) toll road built in Osceola County, Florida. Construction began in 2013 and was completed in 2016. The road had been planned for decades to provide a traffic outlet from Poinciana northwest to US 17/US 92 and Interstate 4. Costs skyrocketed after land the road would traverse was turned into a mitigation bank, requiring a bridge to span most of the 1.2 miles (1.9 km) stretch of the Poinciana Parkway through the restored wetland. The road was originally planned to be built by Avatar—the primary developer of Poinciana—as a four-lane, limited-access highway; after the decision was made to build the bridge across the mitigation bank a toll was planned for the bridge segment of the road, but the collapse of the 2000s housing bubble and increased costs forced Avatar to abandon their plans to build the private toll road. About the same time, Osceola County formed the Osceola County Expressway Authority to build a loop road around the Kissimmee-St.Cloud area, which would include the Poinciana Parkway.
The Poinciana Parkway is a two-lane, controlled-access toll highway, designed to be expanded to a four-lane expressway, that runs between the Polk-Osceola County line and the Cypress Parkway (CR 580) in Poinciana, with a large section crossing undeveloped swampland. The highway is contiguous with Kinney Harmon Road in Polk County, which connects the Poinciana Parkway with US 17/US 92 in Loughman. Across US 17/92, the road continues as the Ronald Reagan Parkway (former County Road 54), which provides indirect access from the Poinciana Parkway to Interstate 4.
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