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Originally Posted by GizmoWhiskers
The fact that the Developer had the power to take 470, a main road for 18 wheelers to reach the turnpike from 75 traveling at 55 mph (which they never honored), and turn it into a 45 mph roundabout joy ride should explain everything regarding the well oiled machine called The Villages. That change alone showed pretty impressive clout. It will never go back to that old pretty road where cows roamed free in beautiful pastures and wild boars got hit.
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Lots of ranch land (that pays little if any in property taxes) in FL for the future McDonalds hamburgers to graze.
The county/state could have (should have) made 470 a 4 lane divided east/west 75/Turnpike connector road years before the Villages purchased the land.
301 is another example that's 10 years behind need.
Then there's the repaving of 44 with its miles of sidewalks to nowhere which seems to have come to a screeching halt.