What is the history of the I-4 in Florida?

History. I-4 was one of the first Interstate Highways to be constructed in Florida, with the first section opening between Plant City and Lakeland in 1959. By early 1960, the Howard Frankland Bridge was opened to traffic, as well as the segment from the Hillsborough Avenue/US 301 junction in Tampa to Plant City.



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The south end of the I-4 bridge, in Sanford, is now “cursed,” as many traveling experience electronic malfunctions, lost phone service, and mysterious lights appearing out of nowhere. That stretch was deemed, “The Dead Zone.”

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The bottom line: I-4 is funded by federal money as part of the Interstate Highway System, so it's titled as such. I-4 is one of more than a dozen intrastate routes in that system. Some have more than one intrastate Interstate — Arizona and New York each have two, and there are three in Texas.

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Dead zones occur in coastal areas around the nation and in the Great Lakes — no part of the country or the world is immune. The second largest dead zone in the world is located in the U.S., in the northern Gulf of Mexico.

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US Route 50 This entire 3,000 mile route is dubbed “America's Loneliest Road.” Route 50's path cuts across the corner of Utah, passing by the Canyonlands National Park, the Arches National Park and through the vast emptiness of the Great Salt Lake Desert.

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The British created the first graded road built in Florida in 1763, when the state was known as the colony of East Florida. Called Old Kings Road, that 150-mile thoroughfare bumped along from the St. Marys River, at the border between East Florida and Georgia, to south of New Smyrna.

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