Florida Lawmakers OK Highways, Drawing Environmentalist Barbs

摘要

Florida lawmakers have approved a plan to build three new highways that environmental groups say could dramatically change the state’s rural landscapes. One of the toll roads would run southwest from central Florida to the state’s Gulf Coast. Another would extend the Suncoast Parkway from Tampa along Florida’s Big Bend region to the Georgia border. The third would connect the Suncoast Parkway to the north end of the Florida Turnpike. It would be the largest expansion of the...