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State Road 15 (Florida)

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SR 15 north at SR 5098 in Orlando
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SR 15 north at SR 5098 in Orlando

Florida State Road 15 (commonly SR 15) is part of the Florida State Road System. It runs from SR 80/SR 880 at Belle Glade north along the east shore of Lake Okeechobee to Okeechobee. Then it runs north to SR 500 (US 192) at Holopaw, and northwest along SR 500 to Ashton (east of St. Cloud), where it ends.

County Road 15 in Osceola County and Orange County connects to the beginning of the next section, at SR 528 (the Bee Line Expressway) east of Orlando International Airport. From there, SR 15 travels north on Narcoossee Road, west on Hoffner Road, north on Conway Road through Conway, west on Lake Underhill Road, and west on South Street (northbound) and Anderson Street (southbound) on both sides of SR 408 (the East-West Expressway) to downtown Orlando. It then travels north on Mills Avenue and continues all the way to downtown Jacksonville. From there it goes north along Main Street and west on the 20th Street Expressway, and then northwest into Georgia.

SR 15 is unsigned, except in two places:

The rest is signed as various US Highways: SR 15 is locally maintained along Mills Avenue in Orlando from SR 526 (Robinson Street) to SR 50 (Colonial Drive).

Major roads intersected

History

Prior to the 1945 renumbering, the route that became SR 15 had the following numbers: SR 15 was defined in the 1945 renumbering as: Neither proposed route was built. The alternate route in Seminole County was going to be a bypass of Sanford, but construction of SR 400 (Interstate 4) relegated it to a minor road, and it became CR 15 in the 1980s.

The main route has stayed mostly the same. Here are the places where the route now differs:

Spur in Jacksonville

SR 15 is also a short arterial and freeway connector from the main part of SR 15 (US 17) southwest of downtown Jacksonville northeast to SR 8 (Interstate 10).

The spur is unsigned. Southbound it is signed for US 17, and northbound it is signed for I-10 east.

Major roads intersected

History

The spur was built as part of the original Jacksonville freeway system. It was originally signed as part of Alt US 17.

 


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