Talk:Florida's Turnpike

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)

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)

I-95
Interesting bit from :
 * 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)

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).


 * Tampa Tribune Article - Governor Fed Up With Expressway Authority

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, 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)

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)
 * The original turnpike was paid off in 1989. There is a very good possibility that the Turnpike will never be free to drive.  Based on the tolls being relatively low (they are twice as much on some other toll roads), they aren't really out to gouge people.  There are free alternatives for you to get to Orlando, they may just not be freeways.  The tolls also go to pay for operations and maintenance of the system, as well as improvements/upgrades.  The highways that you use to get to Atlanta were built with federal funding, the Turnpike was not.  --Holderca1talk 20:26, 28 May 2009 (UTC)

Northern extension to Tallahassee?
From the Internet archive, I found a back-up site of Mike Natale's website about toll roads and here the link to Florida's Turnpike http://web.archive.org/web/19990209002454/www.contrib.andrew.cmu.edu/~mn2n/tollfl.html it mentionned a proposal of an northern extension from I-75 to Tallahassee, any recent reports if it's still on the plans or if it was cancelled? --Sd-100 (talk) 14:38, 21 September 2008 (UTC)

''Off the table in 2000. Marion County was opposed at the time. Now right of way and mitigation in Ocala National Forest prevent this project from moving forward. The costs would be astronomical if only Turnpike-funded.'' —Preceding unsigned comment added by 156.75.192.109 (talk) 13:58, 14 October 2008 (UTC)

Use of the possessive
Most state turnpikes have names like the New Jersey Turnpike, the Ohio Turnpike, the Pennsylvania Turnpike, etc.; Florida's Turnpike is the only one I can think of that uses a possessive form of the state name. I'd be interested to see if anyone can find out why Florida chose to do it that way. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 205.156.36.58 (talk) 19:11, 4 March 2009 (UTC)


 * Nobody remembers anymore, but speculation is because the Turnpike started as an independent Authority, not part of State of Florida, and the road was actually the Sunshine State Parkway. It became part of new FDOT in 1969 and speculation is that the legislature wanted it to be Florida's Turnpike to show it was part of the State of Florida government, no longer independent.  In Mass (althought not for much longer) and Pennsylvania, the Turnpikes are independent authorities, not part of state government.  —Preceding unsigned comment added by 156.75.192.109 (talk) 15:18, 3 April 2009 (UTC)

Southbound Tolls
I'm reading the exit list tolls and i'm only seeing tolls going northbound on the coin sections in the exit list notes. When will southbound tolls be added to the notes section, similar to the Sawgrass Expressway article? 74.173.105.47 (talk) 20:41, 24 December 2009 (UTC)

"Green Stamp"
CB-ers/Truckers jargon from the 70s and maybe before called this turnpike the "Green stamp" apparently in reference to its charging tolls, unlike most Florida's highways at the time (been more since around Orlando). See blog http://glasscityjungle.com/wordpress/?p=4468&wpmp_switcher=mobile (no. Not me! :) The only reference I can find online. Student7 (talk) 20:44, 28 October 2010 (UTC)

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