City-funded walking overpass authorized for Universal Orlando
5 views - published on April 11th, 2013 in Disney News tagged Disney, disney news, disneyland, walt disney, walt disney world
Leah Zanolla | Posted: Apr 11, 2013 | Updated: Apr 11, 2013 – 2:34:38 PM
The Orlando City Council upheld a opinion this week that would concede a city to spend $4.5 million to build a new walking overpass nearby Universal Studios. The overpass would bond a thesis park with a newest hotel, Cabana Bay Resort, opening in Mar of 2014. This overpass has been utterly a source of row in a city given a skeleton were announced. Opposition to a appropriation is dissapoint that a overpass will radically be used for Universal hotel guests, even yet a city is profitable for it. Cabana Bay will be located on Kirkman Road and a overpass will camber Hollywood Way, permitting hotel guest to equivocate a bustling road.
This overpass is partial of a incomparable $9 million investment on a city’s part, that would also embody creation enhancements to Hollywood Way and Adventure Way. City commissioners contend “it’s vicious to support companies like Universal that move jobs and expostulate tourism, and a $9 million would come from a account privately set aside to make travel improvements in a Universal area, income that radically can’t be spent on anything else.”
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