Driving the Suncoast
is a breeze

Your commute through the Tampa metropolitan area just got easier and more convenient thanks to new SunPass express lanes at three manual toll plazas along the 42-mile stretch of the Suncoast Parkway (Toll Road 589).

The wave of the future
The innovative SunPass express lanes allow you to travel at posted Suncoast Parkway speeds without having to slow down or go through the toll plazas. SunPass customers travel outside the toll plazas (diverging from and merging back onto the Suncoast Parkway) where electronic toll collection readers installed overhead on 100-foot wide spans automatically deduct the tolls from prepaid SunPass accounts. These exciting and convenient SunPass express lanes can accommodate more motorists than regular SunPass toll plaza lanes, reducing delays at toll plazas and improving service for SunPass customers traveling along the west central Florida coast on the Suncoast Parkway, which debuted in Feb. 2001.

Now open
The first northbound and southbound SunPass-only express lanes opened last fall at the southernmost toll plaza (the Anclote toll plaza between S.R. 52 and 54). SunPass express lanes at the Springhill toll plaza (between S.R. 52 and County Line Road in northern Pasco County) and Oak Hammock toll plaza (south of U.S. 98 near the border of Hernando and Citrus counties) opened in February 2003. "Since the opening of the SunPass express lanes on the Suncoast Parkway, the response has been overwhelmingly positive," according to Joanne Hurley, Community Relations Coordinator. "The number of SunPass express lanes on Florida's Turnpike will double in the next two years as part of a $110 million project billed as the "SunPass Challenge."