I've lived on the other side of the airport for two months, and suffered through 5$ tolls each day (that's practically an hours worth of work after taxes), that's how we found out about bear rd.
There's actually few roads that go east and west around here, tons that go north and south.
if you start from 192, it's about 2-3 miles north to Osceola PKWY (which is a toll road), another 3-4 miles north to the 417 (toll road), and about 2 miles north of that to central FL pkwy. So to get west from my main road out here, I can take 192 or drive 7-9miles north of 192 to the next free road to go west.
So no, it doesn't help us at all. I'd gladly deal with tourist over paying tolls (which is what I have to do). And I still drive out of my way to 192 to stay off Osceola Pkwy even though it would shave a good 10-15mins of driving time and about 20 lights.
I grew up in Miami (I know practically every road down there). And the toll roads where generally roads that ran parell to the main expressways. For the people that chose to pay money to save on some traffic did so. But up here, some people don't have the option to avoid certain toll roads.
And it's especially hard on college students at UCF, there's practically no way of getting out of there without getting on a toll road. During the last increase, there was a mom that took a print out from her SunPass account, 17$ in tolls each day for her son to go to school, work, and home. And he would literally spend an additional 2hrs or more if he didn't take the toll road. How is that fair on college kids?? Because they know parent's will fork over money for their kids to take the toll roads?? What about the kids there that don't get money from their parents? How do you think an extra 2-3$ in tolls each day going to affect them?
I hate the expressway authority and do my best to avoid ever giving them any of my money. And there's a lot more to that company that maintaining a road... things that are not meant for this topic.
