In the mid-1970s, the
Florida Department of Transportation (formerly the State Road Department) started a sequence of events that eventually resulted in the transferral of hundred of miles of roadway from State of
Florida maintenance to county control. The first step was the addition of an "S-" or "C-" prefix onto the original FDOT designation ("S" represented "secondary"; "C" represented "county").
In 1977, House Bill 803, Chapter 77-165 in the Laws of Florida, was passed in the
Florida Legislature. This transportation policy act eliminated the State Highway Secondary System which consisted of county roads that were maintained by the state.[1][2] The provisions went into effect on July 1, 1977.
State Road signs started disappearing from the "C" roads and were replaced by Manual on Uniform Traffic Control Devices (MUTCD) compliant county road signs in the early 1980s; the transition of "S" roads to county control took a bit longer. Many roads that were
decommissioned in later years skipped the prefix step.
The following is a list of former state roads in Florida:
State Road 5A (now County Road 5A): Flagler Street from First Street to South Roosevelt Boulevard (SR A1A) in Key West. Commercially prepared road maps still indicate incorrectly that CR 5A is still a State Road (when it was, it was not signed as such). Some maps even suggest that it includes White Street between US 1 and Flagler Street.[3]
State Road 150 (now County Road 150) – two sections: one from
US 19/
US 27 in rural Madison County to
US 221 in
Greenville; another from
US 90 east of Greenville to former
SR 152 in Hamilton County.
State Road 167 (now County Road 2301 and County Road 167) – two sections: one from
US 231 in
Bayou George north of Panama City to
SR 20 west of
Fountain, now CR 2301; another from
US 231 in Betts through the northwest corner of Calhoun County then into Jackson County where it eventually joins
SR 267 south of Marianna. After I-10, the road branches off to South Street and runs east until joining SR 73, where it turns north until the intersection with US 90. Here SR 73 turns west, and CR 167 joins
SR 166, until it turns onto "Old US Road" and runs north toward the Alabama State Line.
State Road 168
State Road 169
State Road 171
State Road 172
State Road 175
State Road 176
State Road 177
State Road 177A
State Road 179
State Road 179A
State Road 181
State Road 181A
State Road 182
State Road 183
State Road 183A
State Road 184
State Road 185
State Road 186
State Road 193
State Road 194
State Road 195
State Road 200A
201-300
State Road 201
State Road 203
State Road 205
State Road 209
State Road 209A
State Road 209B
State Road 213
State Road 214
State Road 215
State Road 217
State Road 218
State Road 219
State Road 219A
State Road 220
State Road 220A
State Road 220B
State Road 224
State Road 224A
State Road 224B
State Road 225
State Road 225A
State Road 227
State Road 229
State Road 232
State Road 233
State Road 234
State Road 235A
State Road 236
State Road 237
State Road 239
State Road 240
State Road 241
State Road 242
State Road 245
State Road 245A
State Road 246
State Road 250
State Road 250A
State Road 252
State Road 252A
State Road 252B
State Road 256
State Road 259 (now Leon County Road 259 and Jefferson County Road 259) - also known as "The Old Tram Road," Tram Road, Limestone Road, Wacissa Highway, and Waukeenah Highway, is a bi-county route that serves southeastern
Leon County and western
Jefferson County, Florida. The western terminus is an intersection with Monroe Street (
SR 61) in
Tallahassee; the northern terminus is an intersection with
US 19 (
SR 57) in
Monticello. Communities served along its route also include
Corey,
Cody,
Limestone,
Wacissa,
Thomas City,
Waukeenah, and
Casa Blanco. Leon County Road 259 is signed east–west, while Jefferson County Road 259 is signed east–west on Tram Road and Paradise Road, and signed north–south between
SR 59 and the northern terminus.[4]
State Road 313, now coming back and being built from SR-207 at the intersection with SR-312 to SR-16 as a six-lane road to ease congestion in the St Augustine area.
State Road 905A (now County Road 905A) is the Card Sound Bridge and Card Sound Road between the bridge and
CR 905 (SR 905A used to extend northward to an intersection with
US 1 near
Florida City, but
Miami-Dade County doesn't sign its county roads and rarely designates them as "County Road ###"). As late as 2005, an old "State Road S-905A" was still posted near the intersection with CR 905.
State Road 940 (northern segment now County Road 940): Big Pine Avenue and Elma Avenue on
Big Pine Key. This is the only state road – current or former – that has segments on both sides of the
Overseas Highway. A street extending eastward from Big Pine Avenue onto
No Name Key is locally known as
SR 4A (see "State Road 5", above). Much of Big Pine Avenue is located in
National Key Deer Refuge.