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In Tallahassee, it was proposed in the 1970s for interstate highway funding to be used to create an east–west expressway. The proposed route included an abandoned railroad corridor running southeast from Tennessee Street and Ocala Road to Stadium Drive, then east through the Gaines Street corridor.
The Interstate Highways in the state of Florida are owned and maintained by the Florida Department of Transportation (FDOT). [3] There are four primary interstate highways and eight auxiliary highways, with a ninth proposed, totaling 1,497.58 miles (2,410.12 km) interstate miles in Florida.
An unused highway is a highway or highway ramp that was partially or fully constructed, but went unused or was later closed or part of a future expansion. An unused roadway or ramp may often be referred to as an abandoned road , ghost road , highway to nowhere , stub ramp , ghost ramp , ski jump , stub street , stub-out , or simply stub .
State Road 23 (SR 23), also known as the First Coast Expressway, is a controlled-access toll road serving as an outer bypass around the southwest quadrant of Jacksonville, Florida. As of 2024, the first phase has been built, linking Interstate 10 (I-10) near Whitehouse with SR 21 (Blanding Boulevard) in the Middleburg area.
When I was seven, my family took a summer vacation to Florida. From Ohio, it took us three days, weaving up and down two-lane roads through the Appalachians and the pine forests of Georgia to ...
Prior to the designation of US 98 in Florida, sections of the route in the southern part of the state were part of the Conners Highway. The Conners Highway or W. P. Conners Highway was a privately built toll road from West Palm Beach, Florida to Okeechobee, Florida, and a free continuation of the road to Tampa, Florida.
In October 1956, all work on the Sunshine State Parkway north of Ft. Pierce was abandoned and plans for a state-long turnpike were shelved due to passage of the National Interstate and Defense Highways Act, which provided for construction of limited-access highways in the corridors that had been under study for the Parkway Extension.
Two people died on the Overseas Highway in the Florida Keys in separate incidents, according to the Florida Highway Patrol. On Saturday night, the driver of a GMC Sierrra pickup truck traveling ...