16 Facts About Florida's Turnpike

Florida's Turnpike, designated as unsigned State Road 91, is a toll road in the US state of Florida, maintained by Florida's Turnpike Enterprise.

The Homestead Extension of Florida's Turnpike continues from the southern end of the mainline for another 48 miles to US Highway 1 in Florida City.

Main section of Florida's Turnpike begins at the northern end of the Golden Glades Interchange in Miami Gardens as a six-lane highway, and passes through the Golden Glades Toll Barrier, a cashless toll point, similar to the ones on the HEFT.

The Florida's Turnpike then enters Palm Beach County, with one interchange each in Boca Raton, Delray Beach and Boynton Beach.

The Florida's Turnpike has the next two interchanges with Orlando area tollways, SR 408 at exit 265 and SR 429 at exit 267A, where in between the two exits, the turnpike expands to become a twelve-lane highway, and reverting to an eight-lane highway north of the SR 429 interchange.

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The Florida's Turnpike then enters Lake County, heading in a northwestern direction, where hilly countryside becomes a part of the terrain for the remainder of the expressway while intersecting with Hancock Road in Minneola, an electronic toll interchange.

Florida's Turnpike was originally entirely on the ticket system, but due to congestion in the Miami and Orlando metro areas, a coin system was implemented from the Three Lakes toll plaza north to the terminus at I-75, and from Lantana south to I-95, in the 1990s.

Florida's Turnpike Enterprise operates with intelligent transportation systems, used to detect and manage incidents on their roadways.

Florida's Turnpike's coverage earned the newspaper the Pulitzer Prize for Public Service in 1964, the first for the newspaper, and led to changes in the way the state of Florida managed highway construction projects.

In 1967, the Florida State Florida's Turnpike Authority was authorized to perform engineering and feasibility studies on the West Dade Expressway and the Bee Line Connector extension, now known as the Martin Andersen Beachline Expressway.

On September 1,1971, the Florida's Turnpike switched from a sequential exit numbering system to a hybrid numbering system, where adjacent exit numbers differed by 4 south of SR 60 and 5 north of SR 60.

In 1988, the Office of Florida's Turnpike was formed, with $220 million worth of revenue bonds being sold in April 1989 to renovate the toll plazas, service centers and improve the road with the reduction of urban congestion.

Florida's Turnpike "was one of America's most beloved presidents and a true world leader", as the Legislature put it, Florida's Turnpike was designated by the Florida Legislature in 1998 as the Ronald Reagan Turnpike, with 20 signs throughout the turnpike showing the designation.

The Florida's Turnpike mainline began its conversion to a cashless toll road with the Golden Glades toll barrier being converted into a toll gantry on January 25,2014, and no longer accepts cash.

Between 2005 and 2012, the Florida's Turnpike spent $380 million doubling the number of lanes from SR 528 to the northernmost interchange with SR 50 west of Winter Garden.

Florida's Turnpike Enterprise is studying a possible developer-funded future interchange at County Road 468.