[2] Along the causeway east of the extension, the Florida Department of Transportation (FDOT) estimated in 2011 that 37,500 cars drove on the route each day.

[3] As part of a pilot project, FDOT has painted the shoulders as bike lanes, thus allowing cyclists on a controlled-access highway that had been closed to them.

[5] Due to high traffic involving the Kennedy Space Center and Patrick Space Force Base in eastern Brevard County, local politicians in the early 1960s petitioned the United States Bureau of Public Roads for federal funding in creating a new causeway across the Banana River, between the Eau Gallie Causeway and SR 520.

Although the federal agency declined twice due to low traffic projections, local officials maintained the need for the proposed causeway.

[11] In conjunction with a project to add additional lanes to I-95, FDOT authorized funding in March 2008 to create an interchange with an extension of the Pineda Causeway.

[13] The overall cost of the extension was estimated at $27 million, of which the remainder not financed by FDOT was paid by impact fee and gas tax.

[15] In 2008, Brevard County commissioned a $400,000 study to create an overpass for the causeway over the Florida East Coast Railway line, located just west of US 1.

[16] In July 2018, FDOT began a $24 million construction project to build a bridge over the Florida East Coast Railway, at a height of 25 ft (7.6 m), as well as to add a traffic signal for Holy Trinity Episcopal Academy.

The overpass was named for Major General John Cleland, a local World War II veteran.