Selmon Expressway ELEVATED LEVELS - Tampa - Florida - 4K Highway Drive
Westbound drive on the Selmon Expressway's elevated express lanes from Brandon to Downton Tampa providing views of the Tampa skyline. Also includes the newly opened Western Extension.
Filmed: April 2021
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From Wikipedia:
The Lee Roy Selmon Expressway, originally known as the Southern Crosstown Expressway is a 14.168-mile (22.801 km) all-electronic, limited access toll road in Hillsborough County, Florida, It connects the South Tampa neighborhood near MacDill Air Force Base with Downtown Tampa and the bedroom community of Brandon. The expressway was built in stages, opening between 1976 and 1987.
The expressway was supposed to be part of a multi-expressway system that failed in the 1970s due to heavy local opposition and financial burdens. The original designation for the expressway was State Road 449, but was switched to State Road 618, which remained a hidden designation until the early 2000s, when it began appearing on maps and in atlases.
The expressway features an elevated bridge, the world's first reversible, all-electronic, elevated express lane project, opened in 2006, with the hidden designation of State Road 618A. The entire expressway ended cash collection on September 17, 2010, going all-electronic for both the express lanes and the main expressway.
The expressway was renamed Lee Roy Selmon Crosstown Expressway in 1999, in honor of former Tampa Bay Buccaneers hall-of-fame football player Lee Roy Selmon. The "Crosstown" portion of the name was dropped in 2008, although it is still referred to as the "Crosstown" by the majority of the population. Most traffic reports and locals refer to it as the Crosstown.
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@amaledwards
2 жыл бұрын
Love your vids
The expressway on that side open now wow!!!!!
@MileageMikeTravels
3 жыл бұрын
Yep. One of the best rides in Florida.
Great video! I was starting to think this might have been one of those highways that you weren't able since you ran out of time. Really cool to be able to see it!
I am on a trip to Tampa. And I absolutely loved it when I went on it irl. Although we didn't get to the express lane part of it.
@MileageMikeTravels
2 жыл бұрын
Yeah it's one of the best highways to drive on in Florida. You've got to hop on the Express Lanes if you get the chance for that gorgeous skyline view.
Great Videos, Love the Tampa area, so beautiful
Bom dia, lindo vídeo e boa sorte.
In April wow
Neat lookin tollway
I don't think there is a highway in florida outside miami as intense as this one
Great video Florida Mike keep it up man how did you like driving on that leveled part of the highway
@MileageMikeTravels
3 жыл бұрын
It's good
please tell me your secret on not getting terrified on elevated expressways/ overpasses 😭 i have a crippling fear of freeway overpasses that i can’t seem to overcome! i’m watching your videos to hopefully help me conquer my fear! p.s. i just don’t understand why they have to build them so high up and so big.
@MileageMikeTravels
3 жыл бұрын
You have to remember that these highways go through a lot of reviews, testing, and analysis before and after they're built. It's pretty rare that one might collapse or anything like that. They gotta build them higher cities because there's less space. I love driving on them myself, it's exciting lol! Ironically though, I'm terrified of roller coasters.
@HannahAlysMarie
3 жыл бұрын
@@MileageMikeTravels ironically i love rollercoasters 😂
@321gates
3 жыл бұрын
@@HannahAlysMarie He forgot to tell you that a section of the Selmon collapsed either during or shortly after construction (can't remember). As someone who also hates heights, I will say I have no worries about driving on the Selmon or Skyway. I will not get on a rollercoaster, though. lol
@joyfaith1711
2 жыл бұрын
Milwaukee’s are super high
@TheloniousJackson
5 ай бұрын
@@joyfaith1711yeah they are
Wish you would have stayed on in downtown Tampa. One, to get a better idea of total drove time and two to see the skyline going going through downtown.
I been waiting for this video. But wait a minute, where is the other side of the upper level? Did it just disappear? lol
@MileageMikeTravels
3 жыл бұрын
The lanes are reversible so that switch the direction depending on the time of day.
@Graphics_Card
3 жыл бұрын
@@MileageMikeTravels no way how is that possible
@RiveraMichael4567
3 жыл бұрын
@@Graphics_Card Here's how these reversible lanes work: Weekdays: Westbound in the Morning, Eastbound in the Afternoon. Weekends: Eastbound ALL DAY
@amaledwards
2 жыл бұрын
@@RiveraMichael4567 My wonder is: How do they change it, and how so quickly if it is quick?
@RiveraMichael4567
2 жыл бұрын
@@amaledwards For some period, the lanes close to clear traffic going one direction before opening to traffic going the other direction.
i am might tennesseee state
Weird. I’m pretty sure that elevated part used to run eastbound. I guess they rerouted traffic to go west
@cdxgg_
3 жыл бұрын
It’s reversible so the direction of the lanes change throughout the day
I’m surprised no one was speeding down the elevated lanes
@MileageMikeTravels
3 жыл бұрын
Yeah surprisingly most people drove pretty reasonably when I was on there.
Great video mike hey is the Selmon Expressway your favorite highway in Tampa you have done quite a few videos of it?
@shivaultrachannel
3 жыл бұрын
Yes he has
@MileageMikeTravels
3 жыл бұрын
I originally planned to just do one eastbound and one westbound but when the extension opened up I went back to get that. To my surprise the elevated express lanes just happened to be open too.
Nice video!
@MileageMikeTravels
3 жыл бұрын
Thanks!
@shivaultrachannel
3 жыл бұрын
@@MileageMikeTravels yw
I don’t understand why it doesn’t connect to i275 or go straight to st Pete.
@321gates
2 ай бұрын
It does take you to St. Pete via the Gandy.