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John Tyler sees the final completion of the $1.6 billion, 25-mile Wekiva Parkway/State Road 429 as a career-defining moment for himself and many other Florida Department of Transportation employees.

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On Jan. 26, transportation officials cut the ribbon on the remaining 2.63-mile segment of the Wekiva Parkway from Orange Boulevard to east of Rinehart Road in Seminole County.

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It’s the final segment of the roughly 100-mile beltway around Central Florida. It links with State Road 417 and Interstate 4, providing more connectivity between Lake, Orange and Seminole counties, with recently opened segments seeing 21,000 vehicles a day.

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