Posted on 11/09/2021 4:06:35 PM PST by Tolerance Sucks Rocks
After years of work, shifting lanes, blocked exits and delays, the I-4 Ultimate Construction project is finally almost done.
The new system will bring new lanes and tolls, and will offer a road that should be safer and faster. Advertisement
Lynden Turnquest works for Truly Nolen, and for more than six years he's weaved his way through construction, hoping for relief, but not betting on it.
"Once it opens up and the construction is done it'll be like WOOHOO!!! And then it's back to traffic again," Turnquest said.
But how did we get to the point where officials felt we needed the most expensive highway construction project in state history? For the answer, you have to go back more than 60 years.
That's when Interstate 4 construction began, in 1958.
The highway system that changed America, began drawing a thousand new residents a day to Florida by the early '80s.
To handle the fast-growing traffic, I-4 did go through a number of changes.
In 1987, I-4 was mostly two lanes in each direction. The federal government raised the speed limit, just as Disney, Universal and SeaWorld were building new theme parks. Tourist traffic swelled.
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Buttplug will want to destroy it and have black owned companies rebuild it
Day it reopens it’ll be obsolete. As expected.
As someone who used to drive through all that crap until leaving Florida 15 years ago a great deal of the problem is simply excessive growth. But not all of it I won’t even go into the other reasons but my comment is that the government has turned it into a huge network of never-ending overpriced toll roads justified by the promise to this going to improve things
The left and the government, I repeat myself of course, always harping on how they care about the lower-income people, turn Central Florida into a virtual spiderweb of toll roads. Inexpensive nightmare for the poor working-class.
Buttplug won’t be happy till it goes right through
Disney World!
It amazes me that road construction projects in the 21st century drag on for years and years despite this being a high-tech age that sees us flying helicopters on Mars. In the summer of 1963, houses stood along the right-of-way for the 605 freeway in Southern California. A year later, cars were speeding along the freeway.
Luckily for me I can avoid having to use I-4 at all. I’ve gone along using 17-92, Orange Ave., 436 and assorted back roads. In fact when they started this project I stopped using it.
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