Talk:Florida's Turnpike
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[edit] SUNPASS
SunPass is accepted on every toll road in Florida (that I know of) EXCEPT for the Rickenbacker Causeway in Miami, FL which is the road connecting to the island of Key Biscane. This road is controlled by MDX. Enforcement of unpaid tolls is very strict here. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 74.173.0.179 (talk) 03:37, 28 December 2007 (UTC)
The Rickenbacker is not controlled by MDX. It is owned and operated by Miami-Dade County, as is the Venetian Causeway.156.75.192.109 (talk) 17:32, 4 January 2008 (UTC)
[edit] Service plazas
Turnpike service plazas have exit numbers? I thought they were only referred to by name (Okahumpka, Turkey Lake, Canoe Creek, West Palm Beach, etc.) ...? TrbleClef 09:42, 15 Aug 2004 (UTC)
- Yeah, I think they're in parenthesis because they're not marked as a numbered exit. They may have added exit numbers to plazas back when they changed the exit numbers to their respective mile markers... -- Killioughtta 18:26, 26 February 2006 (UTC)
[edit] I-95
Interesting bit from [1]:
- Florida: Sunshine State Parkway, 41 miles: the northern portion, from Fort Pierce to Palm Beach.
This was designated as part of I-95, from north of SR 786 where the two roads come next to each other to near SR 70 at Fort Pierce. Later of course a new alignment for I-95 was defined. --SPUI (T - C) 07:16, 6 July 2006 (UTC)
[edit] Lee Roy Selmon Crosstown Expressway takeover by Florida's Turnpike may be back on the table.
This will be the third or fourth instance where the Tampa-Hillsborough Expressway Authority's future will be up in the air. The latest plan comes from Florida Governor Jeb Bush, who is calling upon the Florida Legislature to look into obliterating the THCEA after the authority's director, Ralph Mervine, resigned upon heated controversy that may have ties to an (inapropriate) film company in California. If the THCEA is indeed obliterated by the Florida Legislature when the body meets in January, the Selmon-Crosstown Expressway will go into the hands of the Florida Turnpike Enterprise. For more info on the latest controversy surrounding the THCEA, go to the link below. Wslupecki 19:03, 10 November 2006 (UTC).
[edit] Interstate 92?!
Came across a most interesting tidbit on Page 231 of Florida Trails to Turnpikes: 1914-1964 by Baynard Kendrick and published by the University of Florida Press in the latter year:
"The State Road Department completed 127 miles of [the Interstate Highway System] during this twenty-four month period (1961-1962); and, including the 50 miles completed during the previous biennium, the number of miles of interstate highway open to traffic totaled 177. All of this multi-lined mileage was built on new locations and did not include the forty-one-mile segment of the Florida State Parkway (Turnpike) identified with Interstate Route 92 markers." (emphasis mine)
What da hey...
- Aerobird 01:04, 6 January 2007 (UTC)
- That has to be a typo for 95 - according to [2], 41 miles of the Turnpike were initially part of the system, and that part of I-95 was built later. --NE2 01:42, 6 January 2007 (UTC)
[edit] Tolls
When are the "debt obligations" going to be paid off with the tolls? I live in Valdosta, Georgia. I can drive to Atlanta without paying any tolls, why can't I drive to Orlando (same distance) without paying tolls? --Mjrmtg 19:35, 22 January 2007 (UTC)
