ORLANDO — A years-old plan by Seminole County to build a pair of tunnels along a popular trail near Altamonte Springs — giving bicyclists and pedestrians an easy way to cross under two of the busiest highways in Central Florida — may be dead after commissioners glimpsed the estimated price tag.
“The idea of the tunnels then was a fun and exciting alternative that would be safe. And I think the citizens would love it,” Commissioner Lee Constantine said at Tuesday’s board meeting. “But sometimes you can’t have everything you want. And in this case, knowing all that I know now, I could never, ever, even consider it, with all the other needs in this county.”
Constantine made the comments after a county staff presentation showed constructing the underpasses along the Seminole Wekiva Trail at State Road 436 and Laurel Street, and at State Road 434 and Orange Avenue, would cost nearly $40 million…