Interstate 4

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Interstate 4 in Florida
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Interstate 4 in Florida

Interstate 4 (abbreviated I-4) is an intrastate Interstate Highway located entirely within the state of Florida, United States. It goes from Interstate 275 in Tampa, Florida (maps) to Interstate 95 at Daytona Beach, Florida (maps). It also has the Florida Department of Transportation designation of Florida State Road 400, even though no signs indicating that status are posted on the Interstate highway.

The combination of the Tampa, Orlando and Daytona Beach metropolitan areas is often referred to as the I-4 Corridor, since the freeway connects all three. In the 2004 U.S. presidential election, the I-4 corridor, a site of significant growth, was a focus of political activity within the swing state of Florida. Communities along the I-4 corridor were perceived by both major political parties as having higher proportions of undecided voters as compared to more Republican or Democratic-leaning portions of the state.

An old shield in Orlando, Florida
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An old shield in Orlando, Florida

Hurricane Charley is sometimes referred to locally as the I-4 Hurricane. The storm's path followed closely to Interstate 4 for its last 100 miles (160 km) and caused widespread damage in central Florida.

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Length

miles km state
132.298 212.91 Florida
132.298 212.91 Total
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Cities and towns along the route (from west to east)

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Interchanges from West to East

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Florida

County Municipality Exit
Hillsborough Tampa 0 Interstate 275
Hillsborough Tampa 1 21st and 22nd Streets (SR 585)
Hillsborough Tampa - 40th Street (SR 569) NOTE: Due To New Construction, This Exit Is Permanently Closed
Hillsborough Tampa 3 Columbus Drive / 50th Street (US 41 / SR 599)
Hillsborough 5 Martin Luther King Boulevard / Buffalo Avenue (SR 574)
Hillsborough 6 Orient Road (eastbound only)
Hillsborough 7 US 92 / US 301
Hillsborough 9 Interstate 75
Hillsborough 10 Mango Road (Hillsborough CR 585)
Hillsborough 14 McIntosh Road
Hillsborough 17 Branch Forbes Road
Hillsborough Plant City 19 Lake Thonotosassa Road (SR 566)
Hillsborough Plant City 21 Alexander Street / Wheeler Street (SR 39)
Hillsborough Plant City 22 Park Road (SR 553)
Hillsborough - Polk Boundary Plant City - Lakeland Boundary 25 County Line Road
Polk Lakeland 27 Polk Parkway (SR 570)
Polk Lakeland 28 Memorial Boulevard (SR 546)
Polk Lakeland 31 Kathleen Road (SR 539)
Polk Lakeland 32 US 98
Polk Lakeland 33 SR 33 / Socrum Loop Road (Polk CR 582)
Polk Lakeland 38 SR 33
Polk Lakeland 41 Polk Parkway (SR 570)
Polk 44 SR 559
Polk 48 Old Glade Road (Polk CR 557)
Polk 55 US 27
Polk - Osceola Boundary 58 Champions Gate Boulevard / Osceola Polk Line Road (Osceola CR 532)
Osceola 60 Western Expressway (SR 429)
Osceola 62 Central Florida Greeneway (SR 417) (eastbound only) / World Drive to Walt Disney World
Osceola 64 US 192 to Walt Disney World
Osceola - Orange Boundary 65 Osceola Parkway to Walt Disney World
Orange Lake Buena Vista 67 World Center Parkway (SR 536) / Epcot Center Drive to Walt Disney World
Orange Lake Buena Vista 68 Apopka Vineland Road (SR 535)
Orange 71 Central Florida Parkway (eastbound only)
Orange 72 Bee Line Expressway (SR 528)
Orange 74A Sand Lake Road (SR 482)
Orange Orlando 74B Adventure Way / Universal Orlando (westbound only)
Orange Orlando 75A Kirkman Road (SR 435) South / Universal Orlando (eastbound only)
Orange Orlando 75B Kirkman Road (SR 435) North
Orange Orlando 77 Florida's Turnpike
Orange Orlando 78 Conroy Road
Orange Orlando 79 John Young Parkway / SR 423
Orange Orlando 80 Orange Blossom Trail (US 17 / US 92 / US 441)
Orange Orlando 81A Michigan Street (westbound only)
Orange Orlando 81B/C Kaley Avenue
Orange Orlando 82A East-West Expressway (SR 408)
Orange Orlando 82B Gore Avenue (westbound only)
Orange Orlando 82C Anderson Street
Orange Orlando 83A South Street (westbound) / Robinson Street (SR 526) (eastbound)
Orange Orlando 83B Amelia Street / Colonial Drive (SR 50 / US 17 / US 92) (eastbound only)
Orange Orlando 84 Ivanhoe Boulevard / Colonial Drive (SR 50 / US 17 / US 92) (westbound only)
Orange Orlando 85 Princeton Street (SR 438)
Orange Orlando 86 Par Street (eastbound only)
Orange 87 Fairbanks Avenue (SR 426)
Orange 88 Lee Road (SR 423)
Orange Maitland 90 Maitland Boulevard (SR 414)
Seminole Altamonte Springs 92 Semoran Boulevard / Altamonte Drive (SR 436)
Seminole Altamonte Springs 94 Sanlando Springs Road (SR 434)
Seminole Lake Mary 98 Lake Mary Boulevard
Seminole Lake Mary 101A H.E. Thomas Jr. Parkway (Seminole CR 46A)
Seminole Sanford 101B Central Florida Greeneway (SR 417)
Seminole Sanford 101C 1st Street (SR 46)
Seminole 104 Orange Boulevard US 17 / US 92])
Volusia DeBary - Deltona Boundary 108 Dirksen Drive / DeBary Drive (Volusia CR 4162)
Volusia Orange City - Deltona Boundary 111 Saxon Boulevard (Volusia CR 4146)
Volusia Deltona 114 SR 472
Volusia Lake Helen 116 Orange Camp Road / Main Street
Volusia DeLand 118 New York Avenue (SR 44)
Volusia Daytona Beach 129 International Speedway Boulevard (US 92) (eastbound only)
Volusia Daytona Beach 132 Interstate 95 / Beville Road (SR 400)
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Spur routes

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Notes

This road is very close to a true diagonal route. It goes further east-west than north-south, though it would probably still be even-numbered even if it didn't, given that it only intersects odd-numbered Interstates at right angles. Throughout most of Orange County, I-4 travels in almost a north-south direction.

The bridge over the St. Johns River, originally a single four-lane span, replaced with two three-lane spans in 2003, is now named the Veterans Memorial Bridge.

When it was first built, Interstate-4 entered St. Petersburg, Florida over the Howard Frankland Bridge while I-75 ended at the interchange known as Malfunction Junction in downtown Tampa (a derisive adaptation of "Conjunction Junction" so-called because of extended construction and dangerous curves which brings traffic to a crawl in every direction every rush hour). I-4 was truncated to Malfunction Junction in 1971 with I-75 extended over the bridge. Eventually, that stretch was again renamed to become part of I-275. The interchange was rebuilt in 2004 and 2005, and I-4 is under staged renovations to expand it from four to six lanes. Some of this work is complete.

Express toll lanes were currently being planned in the Orlando area as a traffic congestion relief technique for rush hour commuters. The name for them was to be Xpress 400, numbered after the state road designation for I-4, SR 400. However, due to U.S. Representative John Mica, they have been banned by a recently passed rider in the 2005 Federal Transportation Bill.

While the entire length of I-4 carries the hidden designation of State Road 400, there is a three mile long stretch of signed SR 400 extending from the northeast terminus of I-4 to an intersection with US 1 (SR 5) in Daytona Beach.

This is the lowest-numbered Interstate Highway, not including Interstates in Hawaii; I-5 is the lowest-numbered north-south Interstate.


Primary Interstate Highways Interstate Highway marker
4 5 8 10 12 15 16 17
19 20 22 24 25 26 27 29
30 35 37 39 40 43 44 45
49 55 57 59 64 65 66 68
69 70 71 72 73 74 75 76 (W)
76 (E) 77 78 79 80 81 82 83
84 (W) 84 (E) 85 86 (W) 86 (E) 87 88 (W) 88 (E)
89 90 91 93 94 95 96 97
99 238 H-1 H-2 H-3
Unsigned Interstate Highways
A-1 A-2 A-3 A-4 PRI-1 PRI-2 PRI-3
Lists
Two-digit Interstates - Three-digit Interstates
Gaps in Interstates - Intrastate Interstates
Interstate standards - Proposed Interstates


Florida State Roads
This is one of many state roads in the current grid system.
Prior to the 1945 renumbering, a sequential system was used.
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