Beginning Tuesday, vehicles in Central Florida will pay an additional two to five cents at toll booths and through lanes.
In an attempt to raise more than $4.2 billion for improvements over the next five years, tolls will be raised on the entire 125-mile road network of the Central Florida Expressway. Numerous expressways in the Orlando area are impacted by the increase, including State Roads 408, 417, 429, and 538.
Using the money collected from tolls, the organization is expanding high-tech safety projects, widening some roadways, and creating new avenues.
According to an email from CFX spokesman Racquel Asa, “Our Five-Year Work Plan is our transportation vision in action, funded entirely by our customers who choose our CFX system and without tax dollars.” Users of CFX roads contribute to the construction, upkeep, and operation of the roads they use on a daily basis.
According to the agency, tolls are linked to regional growth, and since Central Florida is home to one of the most popular tourist attractions in the world and its population has grown dramatically in recent years, this rise is required for ongoing infrastructure development.
According to Census data examined by the Orlando Economic Partnership, the Orlando metro area grew at the second-fastest rate in the US for a second year in a row, trailing only Austin, Texas. More than 55,000 people moved to the area in 2022–2023, and by 2045, more than a million more are anticipated to live there.
In order to counteract the expansion, CFX intends to construct eight projects totaling thirty miles of new roads throughout the network, finish four interchange upgrades, resurface almost sixty miles, finance three project studies, equip all off-ramps with wrong-way traffic detecting equipment, and construct four new corridors.
We understand how critical it is to keep up with the weekly influx of almost 1,500 new residents to our neighborhood, Asa remarked. We are very grateful to our community for choosing CFX each and every day; it is thanks to them that we are able to continue to advance.
In 2017, the agency implemented a toll strategy that increases charges in accordance with the consumer price index. Since CFX’s fiscal year starts on July 1, drivers can experience another rate increase in the future if the CPI shifts.
E-PASS offers tiers of savings based on usage, allowing drivers to save up to 25% on CFX tolls. A driver will receive a 20% discount if their transponder has 40–79 transactions per month. A 25% discount will be given to those who drive more.
