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  Interstate 595 (I-595) connects Interstate 75 in the west with Fort Lauderdale-Hollywood International Airport, US 1 and Interstate 95 in the east (the interchange between I-595 and I-95. It actually ends at US 1 and A1A because A1A and US 1 are concurrent from Southeast 17th Street to Dania Beach Boulevard. The eastern terminus consists of two lanes for US 1 Southbound, two for US 1 northbound and 2 lanes for Port Everglades via Eller Drive. The exit for southbound US 1 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 Port 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 US 1 was built on old Florida East Coast Railroad tracks that went to Port Everglades .
[edit] HistoryInterstate 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.[1] The original eastern terminus was supposed to be at an extended A1A just east of Port Everglades.[citation needed] The eastern terminus was pushed back to US 1, which is actually concurrent with A1A from Dania Beach Boulevard to Southeast 17th Street.[citation needed] I-595 appears to be a spur route of Interstate 75 but Alligator Alley was not bannered I-75 until 1993. When I-595 was commissioned the only interstate it intersected was Interstate 95. [edit] Express lanesThere are currently plans for tolled SunPass express lanes on the middle of the expressway to relieve the traffic.[2] The Express Lanes will significantly improve the capacity and operations of the I-595 corridor by providing 3 additional at-grade lanes in the median of the corridor. The lanes will reverse direction in peak travel times (eastbound in the a.m. / westbound in the p.m.). To maximize the operational efficiency, the lanes will be tolled at varying rates throughout the day to optimize traffic flow, and access to and from the lanes will only be allowed west of 136th Avenue, east of State Road 7, and through a direct connection to the median of Florida’s Turnpike, removing long distance commuter traffic from the general purpose lanes. FDOT will retain control of the toll revenue and toll rates. [edit] Exit listThe entire route is located within Broward County.
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