1967 St. Petersburg Area Transportation Study

[Revive 755]

Came across a copy of the St. Petersburg Area Transportation Study Volume 2 future plan analyses from November 1967 with the preparers including the Florida State Highway Department, USDOT, and the city of St. Petersburg.   A map on Page 52 has the recommended street and freeway system:


(Commentary follows; those familiar with the area can ignore it)

There's quite a few cancellations from this plan. Only a few stubs mark where I-4 would intersect with the By-Pass and Beach Freeways:
http://maps.google.com/maps?hl=en&ie=UTF8&ll=27.755681,-82.677366&spn=0.006599,0.013733&t=k&z=17

I'm gonna guess the wide median on I-275 near 38th Avenue was intended to accommodate the north end of the By-Pass Freeway:
http://maps.google.com/maps?hl=en&ie=UTF8&ll=27.8045,-82.66197&spn=0.013191,0.027466&t=k&z=16

Stubs at the I-275/I-375 interchange to accomade the latter's extension to the By-Pass Freeway:
http://maps.google.com/maps?hl=en&ie=UTF8&ll=27.776548,-82.658504&spn=0.006597,0.013733&t=k&z=17

The Ulmerton Expressway (not shown on the above map) appears to have been partly built, but I don't see many signs that some of the other routes got too far past the planning stage.

EDIT:  There's also some plates for some of the routes with the proposed design drawn over an aerial photograph.

[sammack]

I'm gonna guess the wide median on I-275 near 38th Avenue was intended to accommodate the north end of the By-Pass Freeway:
http://maps.google.com/maps?hl=en&ie=UTF8&ll=27.8045,-82.66197&spn=0.013191,0.027466&t=k&z=16

not that I am aware of

This is the only thing that was actually constructed, and it is only a stub.
http://maps.google.com/maps?hl=en&ie=UTF8&t=k&ll=27.757115,-82.664609&spn=0.015836,0.038581&z=15

[Alex]

My former employer crafted this mini map of Pinellas County in 1970. It gives a good overview of what freeways were still considered by that time. Of those, the aforementioned freeway stubs at 31st Street South and I-275 come into play. I had not thought about the wider median at 38th Avenue North and I-275 (and I used to live just three blocks from there!), but indeed a freeway was to tie in there as well.

The Gandy Boulevard right of way still includes a wide median slated for a freeway east from U.S. 19, but no interchanges were ever built (one is needed at the U.S. 92 turn from 4th Street onto Gandy where Roosevelt Boulevard ties in).

There is a project to upgrade 118th Avenue North / Bryan Dairy Road between Interstate 275 and U.S. 19. But the interchange between the 118th Avenue North upgrade and the U.S. 19 freeway is planned as a SPUI, so it would not be a seamless connection.



Click on the image for a detailed view.