Interstate 4

Truck parking expansion wins DOT funding grants

Trucks parked along exit ramp.

Truck parking in Florida and Tennessee is the winner of a combined $37.6 million in competitive funding from the U.S. Department of Transportation.

A new $15 million project on Interstate 4 between Tampa and Orlando, Florida, creates approximately 120 parking spaces and a $22.6 million expansion project on Interstate 40 west of Nashville, Tennessee, that adds about 125 spaces.

The two projects are among 26 receiving a total of $1.5 billion in competitive grants from DOT’s Infrastructure for...

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FreightWaves Classics: I-4 serves central Florida…

Highway signs for I-4 West and I-4 East. (Photo: Interstate-Guide.com)

Introduction

As explained in the FreightWaves Classics article about Interstate 2 (I-2), there are 70 primary interstate highways in the Dwight D. Eisenhower National System of Interstate and Defense Highways (commonly known as the Interstate Highway System, or IHS). The IHS is a network of the major freeways in the United States. The oldest parts of the interstate system date back to the 1950s, although planning for the system began prior to World War II. To learn more about their history, read...

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