Florida

[formulanone]

Is this the southbound I-95 rest areas in Martin County?

Or the northbound one?

It was southbound as I was heading home from Starke.

I'd forgotten about that photo, honestly. It was my wallpaper on a work PC many years ago.

[ElishaGOtis]

You can barely see it completed 99% in this super-congested GSV (although it wasn't open then, now it is), but the first of (I think) 7 auxiliary lanes has been opened on I-75 in Ocala. This one is between SR-40 (Exit 352) and US-27/SR-500 (Exit 354).

This set of Moving Florida Forward projects puts a bunch of aux lanes on I-75 between Turnpike and SR-326, fiddles with a couple interchange configurations, and puts a new DDI interchange between US-27 and SR-326. Wishing the new interchange was a double-roundabout like Georgia SR-99 but I guess this works?

[roadman65]

You can barely see it completed 99% in this super-congested GSV (although it wasn't open then, now it is), but the first of (I think) 7 auxiliary lanes has been opened on I-75 in Ocala. This one is between SR-40 (Exit 352) and US-27/SR-500 (Exit 354).

This set of Moving Florida Forward projects puts a bunch of aux lanes on I-75 between Turnpike and SR-326, fiddles with a couple interchange configurations, and puts a new DDI interchange between US-27 and SR-326. Wishing the new interchange was a double-roundabout like Georgia SR-99 but I guess this works? 🤷�♂️

Oh jeez, this new Bucees Interchange is another DDI.    Good 😔 grief like 39 isn't enough in our state.

[D-Dey65]

Is this the southbound I-95 rest areas in Martin County?

Or the northbound one?

It was southbound as I was heading home from Starke.

I'd forgotten about that photo, honestly. It was my wallpaper on a work PC many years ago.

Thanks. Now there are six more rest areas on I-95 to make galleries for, and four are in Brevard County.

[Max Rockatansky]

Is this the southbound I-95 rest areas in Martin County?

Or the northbound one?

It was southbound as I was heading home from Starke.

I'd forgotten about that photo, honestly. It was my wallpaper on a work PC many years ago.

Thanks. Now there are six more rest areas on I-95 to make galleries for, and four are in Brevard County.

There are photo galleries for Florida rest areas?

[D-Dey65]

You can barely see it completed 99% in this super-congested GSV (although it wasn't open then, now it is), but the first of (I think) 7 auxiliary lanes has been opened on I-75 in Ocala. This one is between SR-40 (Exit 352) and US-27/SR-500 (Exit 354).

This set of Moving Florida Forward projects puts a bunch of aux lanes on I-75 between Turnpike and SR-326, fiddles with a couple interchange configurations, and puts a new DDI interchange between US-27 and SR-326. Wishing the new interchange was a double-roundabout like Georgia SR-99 but I guess this works? 🤷�♂️

Oh jeez, this new Bucees Interchange is another DDI.   Good 😔 grief like 39 isn't enough in our state.

They'd still be better off with splitting local and express lanes. The same goes for I-4 east of Polk City.

[ElishaGOtis]

You can barely see it completed 99% in this super-congested GSV (although it wasn't open then, now it is), but the first of (I think) 7 auxiliary lanes has been opened on I-75 in Ocala. This one is between SR-40 (Exit 352) and US-27/SR-500 (Exit 354).

This set of Moving Florida Forward projects puts a bunch of aux lanes on I-75 between Turnpike and SR-326, fiddles with a couple interchange configurations, and puts a new DDI interchange between US-27 and SR-326. Wishing the new interchange was a double-roundabout like Georgia SR-99 but I guess this works? 🤷�♂️

Oh jeez, this new Bucees Interchange is another DDI.   Good 😔 grief like 39 isn't enough in our state.

They'd still be better off with splitting local and express lanes. The same goes for I-4 east of Polk City.

That I think is the long term plan. There is such a project being considered for the mid-2030s in Gainesville of all places.

[pianocello]

They'd still be better off with splitting local and express lanes. The same goes for I-4 east of Polk City.

That I think is the long term plan. There is such a project being considered for the mid-2030s in Gainesville of all places.

That seems backwards, I-75 is angled in the wrong direction to be useful for most local traffic in Gainesville. They should have put the aux lanes in there, and gone straight to the express-local setup in Ocala instead.

[skatcher]

This set of Moving Florida Forward projects puts a bunch of aux lanes on I-75 between Turnpike and SR-326, fiddles with a couple interchange configurations, and puts a new DDI interchange between US-27 and SR-326. Wishing the new interchange was a double-roundabout like Georgia SR-99 but I guess this works?

With the amount of truck traffic using this interchange (3 truck stops, plus it is the primary movement for trucks going between the Gulf coast and JAX) a double-roundabout would make traffic exponentially worse than it already is going through there. I always end up taking US 27 instead of FL 326 to cut over to US 301 because of the amount of truck traffic taking FL 326. The DDI sounds like a great alternative and should alleviate a lot of the slowdowns in the area.

[skatcher]

You can barely see it completed 99% in this super-congested GSV (although it wasn't open then, now it is), but the first of (I think) 7 auxiliary lanes has been opened on I-75 in Ocala. This one is between SR-40 (Exit 352) and US-27/SR-500 (Exit 354).

This set of Moving Florida Forward projects puts a bunch of aux lanes on I-75 between Turnpike and SR-326, fiddles with a couple interchange configurations, and puts a new DDI interchange between US-27 and SR-326. Wishing the new interchange was a double-roundabout like Georgia SR-99 but I guess this works? 🤷�♂️

Oh jeez, this new Bucees Interchange is another DDI.   Good 😔 grief like 39 isn't enough in our state.

They'd still be better off with splitting local and express lanes. The same goes for I-4 east of Polk City.

That I think is the long term plan. There is such a project being considered for the mid-2030s in Gainesville of all places.

Instead of local/express configurations, I wish more DOTs would study the NJ Turnpike and realize that Cars Only & Cars, Trucks, Busses lanes provide better throughput for ALL vehicles.