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Stretching 148 miles (238 km) across the Florida peninsula, State Road 70 (SR 70) spans five Florida counties and straddles the northern boundaries of two more.Its western terminus is at US 41 (14th Street West) south of Bradenton (Manatee County); its eastern terminus is an intersection of Virginia Avenue and South Fourth Street (U.S. Route 1/SR 5) in Fort Pierce (St. Lucie County).
Ulmerton Road, Walsingham Road, 5th Avenue SR 693: SR 699 in St. Pete Beach: US 19 (SR 55) in Largo: 11.634 18.723 66th Street N, Pasadena Avenue, Corey Causeway, 75th Avenue SR 694: SR 693 in Pinellas Park: US 92 / SR 686 / SR 687 (SR 600) in St. Petersburg: 6.023 9.693 SR 699: SR 682 in St. Pete Beach: SR 688 in Indian Rocks Beach: 14.604 23.503
The U.S. Highways in Florida are the segments of the United States Numbered Highway System maintained by the Florida Department of Transportation (FDOT). Prior to 1993, Florida used colored shields for its U.S. Highways. There are 18 current U.S. Highways in Florida and 2 former U.S. Highways.
In 1969, the State Road Department was superseded by Florida Department of Transportation (FDOT). In 1977, House Bill 803 (HB 803), Chapter 77-165 in the Laws of Florida, was passed in the Florida Legislature. This transportation policy act eliminated the secondary roads, roads that consisted of county roads that were maintained by the state.
The county road system was created in 1977 as a result of the Florida Department of Transportation changing the division of roads from secondary state roads, which were at one time primary state roads, to county roads. Most secondary roads and some primary roads were given to the counties, and occasionally a new state road was taken over; some ...
The road west of the current terminus of CR 939A to the west end of the Saddlebunch Keys was subsequently closed to vehicular traffic and is now the Lower Sugarloaf Key Trail. [18] The road's original wooden bridge over Sugarloaf Creek, which separates Sugarloaf Key and the Saddlebunch Keys, was replaced with the current concrete bridge in 1968 ...
The first segment of SR 56, which stretched from SR 54 to Bruce B. Downs Boulevard (), opened on March 28, 2002, after three years of construction.The highway allows a more-direct access to I-75 two miles (3.2 km) north of the northern terminus of I-275, as opposed to SR 54, which parallelled I-75 for about three miles (4.8 km) before meeting at its interchange.
State Road 76 (SR 76), also known and signed as Kanner Highway, is a 31.504-mile-long (50.701 km) northeast-southwest (signed east–west) state highway connecting Port Mayaca on the shore of Lake Okeechobee at the intersection with US 98-441 (SR 700-SR 15) with Stuart on the shore of the St. Lucie River near the Atlantic Ocean and the Treasure Coast at an intersection with US 1 ().