Jacksonville Expressway Authority

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The Jacksonville Expressway Authority was an independent entity established by the Florida Legislature in 1955. They owned and maintained roads and bridges in Duval County, including several toll bridges, mostly across the St. Johns River. In 1971 the Authority merged with several private bus companies to form the Jacksonville Transportation Authority. Tolls were removed in 1988, and the Florida Department of Transportation now maintains the bridges and freeways.^[1]

The following were built by the Expressway Authority or Transportation Authority:

• Union Street Expressway and Mathews Bridge, 1952-1953
• Interstate 95 from exit 348 to exit 358, including the Fuller Warren Bridge and Trout River Bridge, 1954-1960
• Interstate 10 from ? to I-95, 1957-1960
• Roosevelt Expressway, 1960
• Arlington Expressway, 1961
• Haines Street Expressway and 20th Street Expressway, 1961-1962
• Hart Bridge, Hart Bridge Expressway and Emerson Expressway, 1967
• J. Turner Butler Boulevard, 1972-1979
• JTA Skyway, 1984-1989; phases II & III were completed in 2000
• Dames Point Bridge, 1985-1989 aka Napoleon Bonaparte Broward Bridge

Tolls were charged on the Mathews Bridge, Fuller Warren Bridge, Trout River Bridge and Hart Bridge, and on J. Turner Butler Boulevard.

Exit numbers were also assigned to some of the major interchanges. These were eliminated when Florida adopted a statewide system of exit numbers.^[2]

1. I-95 at State Road 105 (Heckscher Drive) (exits 358A-B - old exits 124A-B)
2. I-95 at State Road 115 (Lem Turner Road) (exits 356A-B - old exits 122A-B)
3. I-95 at U.S. Highway 1 (20th Street Expressway) (exits 354A-B - old exits 120A-B)
4. I-95 at U.S. Highway 23 (Kings Road) (exits 353B-C - old exits 117-118)
5. I-95 at I-10 (exit 351B - old exit 111 - on I-95)
6. Mathews Bridge, Union Street Expressway and Haines Street Expressway
7. unknown
8. unknown
9. I-95 at U.S. Highway 90 (Atlantic Boulevard) (exit 349 - old exit 106)
10. I-95 at the Main Street Bridge and Acosta Bridge (exit 350A - old exit 107)

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