Summary
The 132-mile-long highway connects Tampa on the Gulf Coast to Daytona Beach on Florida's east coast. The first segment of what would become I-4 opened between Plant City and Lakeland in 1959. In 1963, Mickey Mouse-creator Walt Disney flew over Central Florida on a scouting trip for his new theme park and glimpsed a large stretch of undeveloped land where I-4 crossed Florida's Turnpike. Although I-4 is considered an east-west highway, in the Orlando area it mostly runs north-south. The interstate crosses the St. Johns River at Mile 104, near Lake Monroe and the Central Florida Zoo in Sanford. Thanks to I-4 and urban sprawl, the Orlando area annually ranks in the Top 10 for most congested traffic systems in...
The 132-mile-long highway connects Tampa on the Gulf Coast to Daytona Beach on Florida's east coast. The first segment of what would become I-4 opened between Plant City and Lakeland in 1959. In 1963, Mickey Mouse-creator Walt Disney flew over Central Florida on a scouting trip for his new theme park and glimpsed a large stretch of undeveloped land where I-4 crossed Florida's Turnpike. Although I-4 is considered an east-west highway, in the Orlando area it mostly runs north-south. The interstate crosses the St. Johns River at Mile 104, near Lake Monroe and the Central Florida Zoo in Sanford. Thanks to I-4 and urban sprawl, the Orlando area annually ranks in the Top 10 for most congested traffic systems in the country. About 200,000 cars a day travel through Orlando on I-4. Three out of every 10 cars currently using I-4 are driven by tourists. Six out of 10 by commuters. Local planners hope a proposed commuter-rail system running from Volusia County to Osceola County to help relieve traffic.
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Holiday speeders pay price in Florida Highway Patrol crackdown in Orange County
Sentinel Staff WriterIndependence Day brought out some independent-minded souls who played fast and loose with speeding laws, authorities say -- and cost themselves a bundle in the process. More than 100 people, including several caught driving at least 40 mph more than...Tags: Orange County (Florida), Punishment, Fines, Transportation, Fourth of July
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Ticked off! @ the Orange County School Board and a Saab-driving doofus
OK, readers, we hope you have thoroughly vented this week with our expanded Ticked Off! columns, plus the bonus Calendar column. We're taking a break Sunday to think happy thoughts. But don't worry: Ticked Off! will return in this spot Monday-Thursday and...Tags: Elections, Forests, Casselberry, Altamonte Springs, Natural Resources
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Businesses hope race starts visitors' economic engines
Sentinel Staff WriterIt took three vehicles to bring the 11-member McPheron family on their 637-mile pilgrimage from Tennessee to this weekend's NASCAR race. But the sagging state of the economy wasn't going to stop them from coming to today's Coke Zero 400. "It doesn't...Tags: Tourism and Leisure, Speedway, NASCAR, Beach Vacations, Motor Racing
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Coke Zero 400 questions and answers
Sentinel Staff WriterCan Jamie McMurray repeat as Coke Zero 400 champion? It doesn't look good for the Roush Fenway Racing driver, but then it didn't look good last year, either. McMurray had gone nearly five years without a win when he won last year's race and hasn't won...Tags: NASCAR, Daytona International Speedway, Auto Trends, Joe Gibbs, Motor Racing
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Celebration marks 33 years for zoo, 232 for USA
Sentinel Staff WriterThe Central Florida Zoo is celebrating its 33rd birthday and Independence Day with a three-day festival beginning Friday. The Red, White and Zoo celebration will be from 9 a.m. to 3 p.m. Friday, Saturday and Sunday at the animal park on U.S. Highway 17-92... -
July Fourth closings and events
Brevard Closed today: post offices, government offices, county libraries and banks. There will be no garbage or recycling collection. The Orange County Animal Services shelter and the Orange County Regional History Center are closed. But the Mennello...Tags: Tourism and Leisure, Colleges and Universities, Animals, Mennello Museum of American Art, Melbourne
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Ramp makes for happy commute
Sentinel Staff WriterIt was the beginning of the end Tuesday for one of Central Florida's worst traffic tangles as the entrance ramp from westbound State Road 408 to eastbound Interstate 4 opened for business. The old ramp was a long, looping road where motorists heading...Tags: Jim Martin, State Road 408, Transportation, Florida Department of Transportation, Orlando-Orange County Expressway Authority
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Michael's, JCPenney and PetSmart to open locations in retail center south of Orlando
Sentinel Staff WriterThree of the nation's largest retail chains will open outlets before the end of this month in the new Posner Park development just south of Orlando at Interstate 4 and U.S. Highway 17-92 in Polk County. Anchor tenants Michael's, JCPenney and PetSmart...Tags: Best Buy Company Incorporated, Books-A-Million Incorporated, Palm Beach (Palm Beach, Florida), JC Penney Company Incorporated, Rental Service
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We want our baby back
Sentinel Staff WriterKeep an eye out for lost items while you're shopping for your Fourth of July cookout. Found Head cheese, also known as souse meat, is at the deli in Publix stores, Hopkins Meat Packing in Sanford and Winn-Dixie on Curry Ford Road in Orlando. Open Pit...Tags: Kissimmee, Waterford Lakes, Waterford, Orlando, Leesburg
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Developer's business partner says firm's funds may have been misappropriated
Sarah Lundy and Jerry W. Jackson, Sentinel Staff WritersA longtime business partner of Steve Walsh, the developer who shot and killed himself at his Winter Park home last week, said Thursday he has alerted authorities that money could have been misappropriated from partnership accounts. "I have taken over...Tags: Winter Park, Police, Mall at Millenia, Joint Ventures, Orlando
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