Interstate 95 ( I-95 ) is the main Interstate Highway on the east coast of the United States; the southernmost segment serving the Atlantic coast of Florida. It begins at a partial intersection with US Highway 1 (USA) 1 just south of downtown Miami, and heads north past Daytona Beach and Jacksonville to the Georgian state line on the St. Louis River. Marys near Becker. The route also passes through the cities of Fort Lauderdale, West Palm Beach, and Titusville.
Interstate 95 runs for 382 miles (615 km), the southernmost 12,848 miles (20,677 km) that is not signed as State Road 9A , and the remainder becomes an unsigned part of State Road 9.
Video Interstate 95 in Florida
Route description
The highway starts at Route 1 US near 32nd Road in south Miami. It quickly exchanged with the Rickenbacker Causeway via an unsigned SR 913 short, and then headed north to the city center. The SR 970 freeway, which is largely unmarked, distributes traffic to several streets downtown. On the north side of the city center, at Midtown Interchange, Interstate 395 leads east to MacArthur Causeway, and 836 kilometers west to Miami International Airport. Along Miami-Dade County, I-95 is designated as North-South Express Line according to some maps.
After crossing the I-395 and SR 836, the I-95 begins roughly northward along the Northwest 6th Avenue alignment, located one block east of Northwest 7th Avenue (US Highway 441/SR 7). Right north of 36th Street (US Highway 27/SR 25), at a place called 36th Street Interchange, I-95 crosses Interstate 195, which leads east over Julia Tuttle Causeway to Miami Beach, and SR 112, a western highway to the airport. The two-way Expressway line at the median starts at I-195 and SR 112, formed by ramps to and from SR 112. I-95 continues north, crossing and exchanging with many surface paths, most of which are State Roads, before reaching Gold Exchange Glades.
The Glades Interchange Gold Complex provides access between I-95 and two other freeways - the original part of Florida's Turnpike (SR 91), being passed by the Homestead Extension (SR 821), and the Palmetto Expressway (SR 826). The ramp is also provided for and from several road surfaces - SR 826 east at 167th Street to Sunny Isles Beach, US Highway 441 (SR 7) south on Northwest 7th Avenue and north on Northwest 2nd Avenue, and SR 9th southwest with limited access road Northwest 27th Avenue. I-95 north to West Palm Beach, as well as SR 9 southwest to 27th Avenue, stretches parallel to the South Florida Rail Corridor, used by CSX Transportation for shipping and Tri-Rail for commuter trains. At Golden Glades Interchange, SR 9 joins I-95, and I-95 is not known as State Road 9 for the rest of its length.
North of Miami, I-95 continues to Ft. Lauderdale, where it swaps with I-595, provides access to Fort Lauderdale-Hollywood International Airport and Port Everglades to the east, and western suburbs Broward County as well as I-75 to the north (via Alligator Alley) across the peninsula to the Gulf Coast to the west. In West Palm Beach, I-95 provides direct access to Palm Beach International Airport as well as downtown West Palm Beach and Palm Beach Island via SR 704 (Okeechobee Blvd.). North of West Palm Beach, I-95 actually runs alongside Florida's Turnpike 17 miles (27 km), between Donald Ross Road in Jupiter and SR 713 south of Stuart. I-95 then steers west from the highway through Martin and St. Lucie Counties, and across the highway at Fort Pierce before the highway finally split up north of Fort Pierce; I-95 continues directly along the coast; Florida's Turnpike turn west toward Orlando.
After an exchange with State Road 70 providing access to the highway, the highway narrowed to two lanes in each direction. The road immediately enters Indian River County and the next major exit is with State Road 60 providing access to Vero Beach. The highway immediately enters Brevard County and the Space Coast of Florida. At Palm Bay, the road widened into three lanes in each direction and continued north past Melbourne, Viera, and Cocoa. The next major intersection is State Road 528 with access to Cocoa Beach, and Cape Canaveral headed east and weighs on access to Orlando to the west. I-95 has evolved into three lanes through both exits at Titusville. I-95 continued north and entered Volusia County and the city of Daytona Beach shortly thereafter. At the intersection with Interstate 4, the road widened into three lanes in each direction. The highway passes through Flagler and St. Johns county before entering Duval County and the city of Jacksonville.
About 5 miles (8.0 km) north of the St. Johns-Duval, I-95 cut the I-295 belt at the southern end 14 miles (23 km) south of downtown Jacksonville, with I-95 continuing north. Interstate passes through the heart of Jacksonville, crossing the Full Bridge of Warren on the River St. Johns, rebuilt from the incarnation of the original suspension bridge in 2002. About a mile north of the bridge, at exit 351B, crossing with eastern national terminus I-10, with a redesigned interchange completed in September 2010. From here to exit 353B, simultaneously with US 17 and the designation of unsignednya SR 15. Stretching from here in Downtown Jacksonville south through the southern intersection with Jacksonville Beltway, I-295, can be very crowded during peak hours morning and night, with traffic often stopping. More than 100,000 cars use this part per day, with higher traffic numbers in some areas. I-95 cuts I-295 again at the 362, 11 mile (18 km) exit north of Downtown Jacksonville. Right north of the north I-295 intersection, I-95 provides access to Jacksonville International Airport. From this point, I-95 continues north toward Nassau County by way of exit to State Road A1A and then to Georgia, just north of the 380 marker miles.
Express line
The HOV line is currently in both directions between I-395 in Miami and Broward Blvd. (SR 842) in Northern Miami and Fort Lauderdale converted to the High Occupancy highway, with two lanes in each direction. Prices vary by congestion and peak hours and tolls are collected electronically, while travelers are registered with 3 or more passengers and hybrid vehicles can drive freeways for free. Both HOT lines have been completed in both directions from I-395 to Golden Glades Interchange (including toll gantries).
Maps Interstate 95 in Florida
History
Interstate 95 was originally signed in 1959, and the first section opened for traffic was in Jacksonville in 1960. A year later, the short passage just north of I-195 currently in Miami was opened. The Miami News in 1956 touted the construction of what would become I-95 in Miami as "... a slum clearance program." Most of the construction was focused between Jacksonville and Daytona Beach in the early 1960s. The construction of the Complete Bridge of Warren cuts down the historically black neighborhood of Jacksonville called Brooklyn. At the end of the decade, the highway was completed from 17 US, just south of the Georgia state line to Interstate 4 in Daytona Beach (Georgia has not completed their share of I-95 at the completion of Florida). Segment of Ft. Lauderdale to Miami was completed in 1970. In 1976, most of the full highways from Georgia State Line to Ft. Pierce and Palm Beach Gardens to Miami.
In 2002, I-95, along with most of the Florida interstates, switched from a sequential exit numbering system to a numbering system based on mileage.
Lost Coast Link Treasure
The Public Street Bureau approved the alignment of Interstate 95 that used 41 miles (66 km) from the Turnpike of PGA Boulevard (SR 786) in Palm Beach Gardens north to SR 70 in Ft. Pierce in the 1950s. In the mid-1960s, the State Road Department endorsed the amount of traffic carried out to determine whether the Interstate 95 separation of the Turnpike was viable, with the argument using concurrent alignment was the cost of Florida money for Federal Highway funding, but not without the loss of toll revenue. Interstate 95 was aligned separately from Florida's Turnpike in 1973.
Over time, the interstate adopted a separate route closer to Route 1 of the US, including a parallel to the highway between Stuart and Palm Beach Gardens and was originally scheduled to be completed in 1972. However, resistance by Martin County officials due to environmental and undesirable growth concerns suspended the completion of the toll road for 15 years, requiring people who want to travel through the Treasure Coast to pick up one of the slower US 1 or the tolling Turnpike. This section was opened for traffic on December 19, 1987, with I-95 walking unimpeded from Miami to the state line.
Future
Interstate 95 is at least three lanes in each direction for a full 382 miles.
The plan begins in November 2014 to reconstruct 4.41 miles (7.10 km) of Interstate 95 around the intersection at Exit 260 (I-4) and Exit 261 (US 92), with the addition of a special line to separate in and out of traffic of long-distance traffic in this dangerous part. Namely, Southbound Interstate 95 has a dangerous merger situation that comes from the fact that traffic from US 92 goes on the left side. This merged road will be removed as part of this project. This construction project cost $ 205 million with an expected completion in the fall of 2018.
Exit list
Help Route
- I-195 - Drive to Miami; The northern part of the 2 spurs (Other is I-395).
- I-295 - Beltway around Jacksonville.
- I-395 - Drive to Miami; South of two Spurs to Miami (the other is I-195).
- I-595 - Pace West I-95 to I-75 and East I-95 to Fort Lauderdale.
- I-795 (Future) - Future Determination along the Florida Route 9B.
See also
- Transportation in Florida
- Transportation in South Florida
- Florida Portal
- U.S. Road Portal.
References
External links
- Interstate 95 Florida - SouthEastRoads.com (AARoads)
- Panduan Interstate: Interstate 95
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