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Posted on 03/30/2020 8:34:04 AM PDT by Rebelbase
The checkpoint screening travelers coming from COVID-19 hot spots was shut down for four hours due to traffic issues.
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JACKSONVILLE, Fla. – Traffic along Interstate 95 was slowed for miles at the Florida-Georgia border Sunday afternoon after a checkpoint was put in place to screen for travelers coming from COVID-19 hot spots on the East Coast.
Traffic was slowed from the Highway 17 exit in Florida all the way to St. Mary’s Road in Georgia, just past the St. Mary’s River, around 3 p.m.
The traffic on I-95 had cleared up by Sunday evening after the checkpoint was shut down for about four hours. A source at the checkpoint said the operation was shut down due to traffic issues.
The checkpoint reopened around 5:15 p.m. after the Florida Department of Transportation set up a new traffic cone pattern to improve the flow of vehicles coming through. After the changes, traffic appeared to flow much smoother.
Gov. Ron DeSantis said the purpose of the new checkpoint on I-95 south is to check for people coming from the New York City area — where there were more than 33,700 confirmed cases of COVID-19, as of Sunday — and help slow the spread of the deadly virus in Florida.
“Initially I was concerned about doing this because I don’t want there to be a backup," DeSantis said during a news conference Saturday. "But they’re doing it in a great way where the trucks are going through. We’re not worried about that. We’re just worried about the people fleeing some of those areas.”
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“Florida screening for Yankees.”
Smart move.
Imagine the thrill for a LEO being selected to shoot out the tires on vehicles with NY plates!
Seems like an exercise in futility. There must be hundreds of back roads between Georgia and Florida that someone could take if they really wanted to get into Florida. No way all of those will be manned.
Shoulda been doing this for years!.........................
bump
So do they check the wetbacks too, or just US Citizens?
ML/NJ
Sounds like the Florida Turnpike heading North on the Sunday after Thanksgiving.
Law enforcement to driver: Please read this card “The rain in New York falls mainly in the park. Forget about it.”
Driver: “The rain in Nooo Yawwk fawls mainly in the pahhk.
Fuhhhhgggetaboutit.”
Officer: Pull over, please.
Shouldn’t be that hard to go around it and take some back roads
the famous Florida-Georgia line of cars
I live in Jacksonville and the TSA stopped a guy on Friday that tested positive for the Corona Virus at the airport, he had just landed on a flight from NYC, he was immediately taken to the hospital and isolated.....
In addition to I-95, the state police are going this on I-75 and I-10 as well.....
It’s almost surreal to see....
My mother, an old Key West conch, is smiling in heaven.
Just say, “Yankees Suck or Mets Suck”.
I think "undocumented foreign visitors" would be given a courteous apology. New Yorkers would be roughed up a little and let go.
There used to be T shirts "Thanks for visiting us and spending some money here. Now go home."
You ain't kidding!
LoL, great idea, a dead giveaway!
Yeah. Better idea. Now we're getting efficient.
Shoulda happened 70 years ago. LOL
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