Interstate 4

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Interstate 4 (abbreviated I-4) is a 132.30-mile (212.91 km) intrastate Interstate Highway located entirely within the state of Florida, United States. It goes from Interstate 275 in Tampa, Florida (Template:Coor d) to Interstate 95 at Daytona Beach, Florida (Template:Coor d). It also has the Florida Department of Transportation designation of Florida State Road 400, but only a small portion of the route is signed at the east end.

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.

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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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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.

Tolled express lanes were 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 SAFETEA-LU Federal transportation bill in 2005.

Image:Florida 400.svg 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 U.S. Route 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.

The fierce rivalry between the Tampa Bay Storm and Orlando Predators Arena Football League teams has been penned as the War on I-4.

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Exit list

Shields are shown at intersections with other Interstates.

Number Mile Destinations Notes
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Image:I-275.svg Interstate 275 south - Tampa Airport/St. Petersburg Tampa westbound exit and eastbound entrance
Image:I-275.svg Interstate 275 north to Interstate 75 north - Ocala westbound exit and eastbound entrance
1 1 State Road 585 - 21st Street/22nd Street
2 2 State Road 569 - 40th Street
3 3 U.S. Highway 41 - 50th Street/Columbus Drive
5 4 State Road 574 - Martin Luther King Jr Boulevard
6 5 Orient Road eastbound exit and westbound entrance
7 6 U.S. Highway 92 to U.S. Route 301 - Hillsborough Avenue/Riverview/Zephyrhills
9 7 Image:I-75.svg Interstate 75 - Ocala/Naples
10 8 County Road 579 - Mango/Thonotosassa
14 9 McIntosh Road
17 10 Branch Forbes Road
19 11 State Road 566 - Thonotosassa Road Plant City
21 12-13 State Road 39 - Alexander Street/Buchman Highway/Zephyrhills
22 14 Park Road (State Road 553)
25 15 County Line Road
27 15A State Road 570 east - Polk Parkway/Winter Haven/Bartow Lakeland
28 16 to U.S. Highway 92 (State Road 546)
31 17 State Road 539 - Kathleen
32 18 U.S. Highway 98 - Dade City
33 19 State Road 33/County Road 582
38 20 State Road 33
41 20A State Road 570 west - Polk Parkway/Auburndale/Lakeland
44 21 State Road 559 - Polk City/Auburndale
48 22 County Road 557 - Lake Alfred/Winter Haven
55 23 U.S. Highway 27 - Haines City/Clermont
58 24 County Road 532 - Kissimmee/Poinciana
62 24C-D Disney World/Celebration
62 24E State Road 417 north - International Airport/Sanford eastbound exit and westbound entrance
64 25 U.S. Highway 192 - Celebration/Kissimmee/Magic Kingdom/Disney/MGM Studios split into 64A and 64B
65 26C-D Osceola Parkway - Animal Kingdom/Wide World of Sports was only 26C eastbound
67 26A-B State Road 536 to State Road 417 - Epcot/Downtown Disney
68 27 State Road 535 - Kissimmee/Lake Buena Vista
71 27A Sea World International Drive eastbound exit and westbound entrance
72 28 State Road 528 east - International Airport/Cape Canaveral
74A 29 State Road 482 - Sand Lake Road was 29A westbound after 29B (current 74B) opened
74B 29B Universal westbound exit and entrance
75A 30A State Road 435 south - Kirkman Road/Universal no westbound entrance
75B 30B State Road 435 north - Kirkman Road no eastbound entrance
77 31 Florida's Turnpike - Miami/Wildwood
78 31A Conroy Road
79 32 County Road 423 - John Young Parkway
80A 33A U.S. Highway 17 south/U.S. Highway 441 south/U.S. Highway 92 west - International Airport exit 80 westbound
80B 33B U.S. Highway 17 north/U.S. Highway 441 north/U.S. Highway 92 east eastbound exit and westbound entrance
81A 34 Michigan Street westbound exit and eastbound entrance
81B-C 35 Kaley Avenue was split into 35A and 35B westbound only
82A 36 State Road 408
82B 37 Gore Street westbound exit and entrance
82C 38 Anderson Street east Downtown Orlando
83 39 South Street westbound exit and eastbound entrance
83A 40 State Road 526 - Robinson Street eastbound exit and westbound entrance
83B 41 U.S. Highway 17/U.S. Highway 92/State Road 50 - Amelia Street/Colonial Drive part of exit 84 westbound
84 42 Ivanhoe Boulevard
85 43 Princeton Street
86 44 Par Avenue Winter Park eastbound exit and westbound entrance
87 45 Fairbanks Avenue (State Road 426)
88 46 State Road 423 - Lee Road
90 47 State Road 414 - Maitland Boulevard split into 90A and 90B eastbound
92 48 State Road 436 - Altamonte Springs/Apopka
94 49 State Road 434 - Longwood/Winter Springs
98 50 Lake Mary/Heathrow
101A 51A County Road 46A - Heathrow Sanford
101B State Road 417 - International Airport
101C 51 State Road 46 - Mount Dora
104 52 U.S. Highway 17/U.S. Highway 92
108 53 DeBary/Deltona
111 53CA-CB Deltona/Orange City split into 111A and 111B eastbound
114 54 State Road 472 - Orange City DeLand
116 55 Lake Helen
118 56 State Road 44 - New Smyrna Beach
129 57 U.S. Highway 92 east Daytona Beach eastbound exit and westbound entrance
Image:I-95.svg Interstate 95 north - Jacksonville
Image:I-95.svg Interstate 95 south - Miami
132 58 State Road 400 east - South Daytona eastbound exit and westbound entrance
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