Interstate 595 (Florida)

Template:Infobox Interstate Interstate 595 (abbreviated I-595) connects Interstate 75 in the west with Fort Lauderdale-Hollywood International Airport, U.S. 1 and Interstate 95 in the east (the interchange between I-595 and I-95 is locally known as the Rainbow Interchange). It actually ends at US1 and A1A because A1A and US1 are concurrent from Southwest 17th Street to Dania Beach Boulevard . The eastern terminus consists of two lanes for US1 Southbound , two for US1 northbound and 2 lanes for Port Everglades via Eller Drive . The exit for southbound US1 has a ramp to the airport . A1A is not on the exit signs . It is locally called 595 and some maps indicate it as the Port Everglades Expressway . I-595 measures 12.86 miles (20.70 km) in length. I-595 is also known as the Everglades Expressway and as the unsigned State Road 862 by the expressway agency that owns it , FDOT .

The western highway interchange consists of I-75 "north" (nicknamed Alligator Alley) to the west, I-75 south to the south, the Sawgrass Expressway toll road to the north, and I-595 to the east. State Road 84 (the former number for Alligator Alley) runs parallel to the highway, acting as an access road on either side of it most of the way. The portion of the highway between I-95 and US1 was built on old Florida East Coast Railroad tracks that went to Port Everglades .

History

Interstate 595 grew out of the original plan of connecting Port Everglades with Naples with a southern and eastern extension of I-75, but in the 1970s, the southern terminus of I-75 was moved from Broward to Dade (now Miami-Dade) County. The rerouting decision delayed construction of the planned trans-Broward expressway (which, at one point, was to be a toll road): it wasn't completed until March 22, 1991. The original eastern terminus was supposed to be at an extended A1A just east of Port Everglades. The eastern terminus was pushed back to US1, which is actually concurrent with A1A from Dania Beach Boulevard to Southeast 17th Street.

Express lanes

There are currently plans for tolled SunPass express lanes on the middle of the expressway to relieve the traffic.[1] The current plans are for lanes separated by plastic poles. The original plans called for elevated lanes. FDOT says the plans were changed so a monorail system could be put on the middle of the road and because the lanes separated by plastic poles cost less.

Yellow sign signaling the end of the highway.

Final exit on Interstate 595.

Exit list

County	Location	#		Destinations	Notes
		Old
Broward	Davie			I-75 north (SR 93 north) – Naples	Westbound exit and eastbound entrance
				I-75 south (SR 93 south) – Miami	Westbound exit and eastbound entrance
				SR 869 north – Coral Springs, West Palm Beach	Westbound exit and eastbound entrance
		1	1A	SR 84, Southwest 136th Avenue	Westbound exit and eastbound entrance
		2	1B	SR 823 (Flamingo Road)
		3	2	Hiatus Road
		4	3	Nob Hill Road
		5	4	Pine Island Road
		6	5	SR 817 (University Drive)
		7	7	SR 84 westModule:Jct warning: "road" parameter is deprecated	West end of SR 84 overlap
		8	8A	Florida's Turnpike	Signed as exit 8 westbound
		9AB	8B	US 441 (State Road 7)	Signed as exit 8 westbound
		10	9	SR 84 east	East end of SR 84 overlap; eastbound exit and westbound entrance
	Fort Lauderdale	11	10	I-95 (SR 9A) – Fort Lauderdale, West Palm Beach, Miami	Signed as exits 10A (south) and 10B (north)
		12	12	US 1 (SR 5) – Dania Beach, Fort Lauderdale International Airport, Fort Lauderdale	Eastbound exit and westbound entrance; Signed as exits 12A (south) and 12B (north)
				Port Everglades	Eastbound exit and westbound entrance

External links

• FDOT GIS data
• I-595 Express Improvement Project

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