One of the most significant highways that I wanted to photo-clinch on my recent Florida trip was the entirety of Interstate 4. Interstate 4 is an approximately 132.3 mile Interstate Highway that carries the "almost completely hidden" designation of Florida State Road 400. The current route of I-4 begins in Daytona Beach at I-95 and travels in a general southwesterly direction to I-275 at Malfunction Junction in Tampa. I-4 more or less serves as a limited access replacement to US Route 92. The first segment of I-4 to open was between Plant City and Lakeland in 1959. Originally I-4 extended west from Malfunction Junction (the current junction of I-4 at I-275) from Tampa and ended at Central Avenue in downtown St. Petersburg. This 1964 State Road map shows the incomplete I-4 entering St. Petersburg over Old Tampa Bay on the Howard Franklin Bridge. 1964 Florida State Road Map I-4 was slated to be extended over the Sunshine Skyway Bridge but ...
Because every road has a story.