Interstate 175 (Florida)

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Interstate 175 (abbreviated I-175) in St. Petersburg, Florida, also known as South Bay Drive, is a 1.44-mile-long spur route from Interstate 275 into downtown. Interstate 175 also has the (unsigned) Florida Department of Transportation designation of State Road 594.

Eight-tenths of a mile to the north is a sibling segment of freeway designated as I-375 (State Road 592).

[edit] Original Aspirations

The original intentions for Interstate 175 remain a mystery. According to AARoads, the freeway may originally have been part of the killed Pinellas Belt Expressway which would have followed the route of what is today, US 19 Alternate. The Pinellas Belt Expressway was killed around 1979 due to local opposition (almost the same opposition that killed Interstate 4's extension into South Pasadena in the 1970s). When I-75 was relocated in the late 1970s/early 1980s, five miles of additional interstate became available, thus the St. Pete feeder sections of I-175 and neighboring I-375 were upgraded to interstate status.

[edit] External links

[1] I-175 @ SouthEastRoads.com (Part of AARoads.com)
Kurumi - I-175 Florida
Interstate 175 Florida page at Interstate275Florida.com

Florida State Roads
Preceded by 592	State Road 594	Succeeded by 595

	edit Auxiliary routes of Interstate 75
I-175	Florida - Kentucky/Tennessee
I-275	Florida - Indiana/Kentucky/Ohio - Michigan - Tennessee
I-375	Florida - Michigan
I-475	Georgia - Ohio - Michigan
I-575	Georgia
I-675	Georgia - Michigan - Ohio