As political tensions ease, Florida’s tourism oversight district is considering a nearly $100 million plan to upgrade bridges and roads at the Disney World resort.
The Central Florida tourism Oversight District’s board voted Wednesday to explore issuing bonds for six transportation projects by autumn.
The project list includes the third phase of the World Drive North improvement plan, which involves the construction of 1.6 miles of four-lane road. Funds would also go to replace aging bridges, widen Western Way, resurface roads and improve interchanges.
“It’s great we are able to take a positive step,” said Charbel Barakat, acting chairman of the Central Florida tourism Oversight District’s Board of Supervisors.
The transportation upgrades come as Disney plans what one executive said would “probably be the largest expansion ever” of the Magic Kingdom. Details are thin on the project dubbed “beyond Big Thunder,” but it’s expected to involve about 11 or 12 acres of…
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