Derek Vance — Traffic & Roads

Derek Vance covers traffic and roads for Orlando Citizen — I-4, the toll roads, SunRail, Brightline, and the construction programme that keeps rearranging all of them.

His sources are official only: FDOT District 5 and the FL511 traveller-information system, the Central Florida Expressway Authority, SunRail and Brightline. Incidents run only when an official source reports them — never scanner chatter, never social-media rumour. The beat’s job is the commute residents actually drive: what is closed, what is slow, what opens next, and what the project that has fenced off your exit will look like when it is done.

Derek Vance is a staff byline of the Orlando Citizen newsroom.

Latest stories: the full archive is on his author page and in the Traffic & Roads beat archive.