![]() “We are doing as much as we can to advance it and get the funding to move forward to construction.”īut in the same presentations, DOT project manager Hatem Aquib said the large sums needed for I-4 upgrades have been unattainable. “This is a critical corridor for you guys as well as for us,” said Chacon, DOT’s I-4 supervisor, speaking recently in one of many presentations to Central Florida officials. I-4s fate and potential recovery rest in the hands of the Florida Department of Transportation. 17 may slide down INRIX rankings when its 2022 report comes out late this year, Pishue said, depending on whether traffic in other states returns to levels of before the pandemic.Įven if that’s the case, the staggering rise and growth of subdivisions in the four corners area, where Lake, Orange, Osceola and Polk meet, will degrade I-4 traffic further, transportation officials have noted. Ranked eighth is a section of Interstate 95 in Miami-Dade County. Highway 192, or Vine Street, through Kissimmee to Oaks Boulevard.įast-growing north Osceola County has dug a massive transportation hole by not keeping up with highway capacity. Highway 17, or John Young Parkway, from U.S. In seventh place is the 3 miles along U.S. Florida rushed back to business as usual last year, putting vehicles back on roads sooner than many other states, Pishue said.įlorida’s quicker rebound to ugly traffic appears at play in another Central Florida road making INRIX’s list for worst congestion. I-4’s rank of third on the INRIX national list may be linked to the pandemic. ![]() 429 and Beachline is continuously and solidly slammed. “There’s a longer congestion time,” he said.īy afternoon rush, the stretch between between S.R. Before the pandemic, traffic started to get bad by early afternoon, but now the sluggishness takes hold by noon. “It’s significantly more congested than it was pre-COVID,” said INRIX’s Bob Pishue of the 12-mile segment. ![]() I-4 is Central Florida’s busiest road, with an average of 100,000 to 200,000 vehicles daily depending on location, and a pillar of the region’s economy. I-4 has graduated into a notorious class, ranking just behind New York City’s Brooklyn–Queens Expressway and, in the top spot, Los Angeles’ Interstate 5, and beating out the toughest commutes in Dallas, Chicago, Seattle, Washington, D.C. That stretch also stands, according to the company’s 2021 Traffic Scorecard, as the nation’s third worst. 429, hosts the worst congestion in all of Florida, according to INRIX’s study last year of 684 highway corridors in the U.S. Its findings underscore what drivers suffer.Ī dozen I-4 miles, extending from the Beachline to S.R. But I-4’s deterioration has data points that were examined by the global traffic analytics and consulting company, INRIX. ![]()
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