For about 9 miles Highway 200 west of I-75 is a recently widened and reconstructed road. The highway is a safe, pothole free semi-rural divided 6-lane road, with left turn lanes and a wide grass median. Right now it has about nine traffic lights along this section. However, the posted speed limit was only raised from 45 to 50 MPH after construction was completed from two lanes to six, while other 2-lane and 4-lane roads in the same county with more traffic and way more uncontrolled access, are posted at 55 and even 60 MPH. The Florida Highway Patrol and the Sheriffs Office routinely sets up enforcement along this section of the 200 corridor. At night, just East of SW 80th to about SW 46, FHP and SO units are frequently blacked out in the median shooting radar or laser in both directions. They sometimes conceal themselves in the parking lot of Triple Crown Homes Model Center (North side of hwy) or behind the wall of a subdivision entrance on the south side of road.
(Ocala – Marion County)

8/2007