ORLANDO, Fla. — With I-4 Ultimate construction ramping up, changes are coming to your commute on almost a weekly basis.
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Veronica Shaw says some of the recent changes are causing more headaches than they should.
Interstate 4 ramps close to each other in downtown Orlando are about to change. They're exits on I-4 eastbound to South Street and State Road 408, and an entrance ramp from Kaley Street.
"It's frustrating as a driver to watch people cut in, because I like to be the patient one and wait back there, but when somebody is trying to cut in front of me, I don't want to let them because I've been waiting 20 minutes," Shaw said.
Merging onto Interstate 4 eastbound from Kaley Street can be difficult during peak times. For that matter, so is exiting I-4 eastbound to State Road 408 and South Street — two exits that were recently merged into one.
Now, Shaw cannot figure out why the ramp from Kaley Street still exists.
"I think it would be a little bit safer if the Kaley on-ramp wasn't there, because then you wouldn't have all these people trying to merge on," she said.
According to I-4 Ultimate's Dave Parks, Shaw will soon get her wish.
Later this month or early June, the eastbound entrance ramp to I-4 from Kaley Street will permanently close, and drivers will instead have to enter I-4 eastbound from Michigan Street, providing about a 1,000 more feet for drivers to merge onto I-4 before that South Street-S.R. 408 exit.
As for Shaw, she thinks these changes are necessary, because she thinks it's hard to trust other drivers to do the right thing.
"Everybody is trying to get home, everybody has a place to be. And it's just a matter of everybody being patient, and I just think that's lacking," she says.
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