Continuing my widening photos from somewhere around Vero Beach, and finally leading to a stretch that's already completed around Palm Bay and Melbourne. Time to take a rest, then, and I'll do so next to some button copy.


While I'm enjoying the extra lane, here's what I see NB: a crow that likes street names creatively arranged around shields, a TOLL shield that likes omitting the state outline (Exit 205, possibly Exit 205B if Florida ever signs it separately), and an original street sign, neglected, but in resplendent button copy.


Northbound approaching and then past Exit 215, first photo courtesy J.P. Nasiatka and second photo courtesy Costa Ioannidis (one of four overpasses left on I-95 with button copy). Maybe the FL 50 shield is over there to leave room for "Cheney Hwy." (not politically advisable, perhaps), but more likely it's supposed to be centered.


Back to more widening past delicious Cocoa, and then I've finally shaken all that construction by Titusville. It may be historic, but the whole sign shouldn't be brown. It's especially jarring next to the Old (Exit) 80 tab, which probably isn't needed anymore.


More button copy at one particular overpass, NB and SB. The SB sign is next to a removed clearance sign; Florida used to post them on every overpass, but most of the ones above 16' high have disappeared, since that's the minimum required clearance for Interstate standards.

Old SB sign, courtesy Costa Ioannidis.

Northbound in 1974 courtesy Michael Summa.


Modern NB signs in the same area. This is my clearest photo yet of a white-background county route shield on a BGS, and then an older LGS (is that button copy? Could be!) with a semi-cutout FL shield. The blurry sign (sorry, so sorry) also has a semi-cutout shield, and the last photo is here for the distance of 2/3 mile along with the awkwardly tilted fractional slash.

Old NB BGS with the old Florida BGS shield shape, courtesy Costa Ioannidis.


Now SB, again courtesy Costa Ioannidis, with what seems like a sign posted over another sign in the first photo. Did the same thing happen in the second photo - look at the top left corner? What's underneath - button copy? It's probably all gone now, unfortunately.


Remember what I said about clearances taller than 16 feet? This one was clearly 16'-something, so off it came, but accidentally took the bridge label with it. I thought those were signs, not pieces of tape!


The NB ramp to Exit 337 splits, just after being renumbered from FL 9A to I-295. It's a bit confusing to run I-295 as "North" in both directions, but the labeling makes it effectively "Northwest" and "Northeast." FDOT got it right!


How not to make a sign for road users. Half the text can't be read at high speeds, and phone numbers are verboten per MUTCD (think cell phone use while driving, mass casualties, etc.). "Road Work: Completion Summer 2014" is all that should be here.


Pedestrian bridge to a hospital a bit south of the beginning of I-10, NB and SB.


A couple of NB gores in that area with tight-fitting exit numbers. This is one of those cases when the MUTCD doesn't fit - use the correct font (Series E) and have a sign that can't fit in an urban gore, or break the allowable font size and type in order to have a sign at all. Florida doesn't hyphenate in lettered exits, a gripe that I could have brought up a few times already on my I-95 pages.


This is just a railroad crossing (and Myrtle Ave.), but I-95 treats it like a NB gateway to downtown Jacksonville.


Whether two digits wide for three-digit routes, or three digits wide for a two-digit route, all of these northbound signs (courtesy John Krakoff) are older because their shields are partially cut out - and notice that the original sequential exit number was patched over at Exit 362A. FL 9A became I-295 as soon as it was completed and fully up to Interstate standards, so the last photo is a double bonus.


Another FL 9A photo courtesy J.P. Nasiatka, looking north at the SB flyover-in-waiting from I-95 to FL 9A (soon to be I-295) EB on the north side of Jacksonville.


One more SB Costa Ioannidis photo.

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