I-95 North (FL), Miami To Ft. Lauderdale, US 1 To I-595

[lemonrind]

What do the double dashed white lane divider lines indicate? They are towards the end of the video, separating the left lane from the others. I have never seen this before.

[operafanweintraub]

This was SO cool. I just drove this last week.

Notice how many Floridians don't know what a turn signal is?

[StukInBuf]

Golden Glades Interchange... maybe as confusing as some interchanges in New Jersey.

[redman6657]

Nice video, Brent! I like this video so much, I've added it to my Favorites. Also, I had the song you've put in this video stuck in my head all day.

Drive safely out there, and remember to use the left lane for passing, not for cruising.

-Alex

[Fanik10]

I drive I-95 everyday to work or whenever I go out of the house. I live in Providence, RI.

[Kevinjusa]

I remember the scenes on the ride!

Traveled around before getting on a Princess Cruise in Port Everglades.

Thanks for the Memories!

[8RAPS]

See My Mon Scary To Golden Glades In June 11,2011

[candidnot]

Nice video! Having never been in Miami though I guess I always imagined I-95 going through some skyscrapers instead of them being to the right (as one heads north).

[adan104hpen1]

i like roadway wiz and the express lane.freeway brent,please look at my video

[WiiMariokartResort]

anyone traveling on i 95, should watch the videos of i 95 before leaving. I have also traveled 100% of i 95 from houlton ME to miami FL

[FreewayBrent]

@WiiMariokartResort: I never even saw this comment now. The long stretches of I-95 I haven't driven yet are north of Portland, ME, and between Richmond, VA to Jacksonville, FL. From what other people have told me, I wasn't missing much by skipping out on the stretches of I-95 thru the Carolinas and Georgia (I've taken I-85 and I-75, instead).

[AngloAm]

This is FANTASTIC

[Kyukanbun]

I think that signs called "trucks, buses, trailers, left lane prohibited" is posted anywhere on I-95 freeway.

[Z06Sick]

Brent, I really enjoy your videos. I love the scenic Miami highways. I am not sure why so many people dislike that area, although there is quite a bit of crime, it is still gorgeous. Just out of curiosity how many miles have you put on your car doing all of these videos??

[MalibuUSA]

Extra movie with nice song. Great Job!

[prfsnlwannabe]

Great job as always, Brent. I'm surprised it took me almost to Christmas to finally watch this video. Always had wondered what the southern beginning of I-95 in the Miami area looked like, anyway!

[FreewayBrent]

@prfsnlwannabe: Ha that's okay. Glad you enjoyed the ride. Best of wishes to you in 2011.

[401RoadWarrior]

Only real-time videos for me...

Just curious, cause I see you love doing the open road, still trying to find somebody in the world who has covered at least 48 states like I did since 1998, by car only, is it you the... #1? Maybe 49 or even all 50 states?

Drive safely out there.

Chris

[FreewayBrent]

@401RoadWarrior: Ha, not quite that many. The only states I haven't driven in are Alaska, Hawaii, the Dakota's, Minnesota and Wisconsin. So far, since I've gotten my license at the age of 16 (I'm 28 now), I've driven over 600,000 miles, which includes time spent in 3 Canadian provinces and 2 Mexican states. Not too bad, meh?

[401RoadWarrior]

@FreewayBrent SD: you gotta se Mt Rushmore, a piece of patriotic American history, and the very close-by Sturgis (bike week in Aug), ND (I've been 2 Fargo and visited State Capital in Bismaek, MN (I visited Minneappolis), WI (2 visit Harley Museum), btw, in my case as I'm NOT American citizen, my real purpose of driving so much in the States is 2 VISIT lots of places, capital bldgs, nat parks, historical and patriotic places, so not just driving for the sake of driving...

[401RoadWarrior]

@FreewayBrent ...in DC maybe 7 times, LA twice, TX maybe 3 times, New Orleans 6 tms, FL over 8 times on vacation, Grand Canyon 3 tms, Maine twice, San Diego twice, El Paso twice, Galveston over 3 tms, Dallas/Houston/Austin twice, OBX, Everglades Nat Prk in FL, visited state captl bldgs in most of the states I've been 2, so I have my fav places and not so fav ones...

Around 700K miles in my case but I'm way older than u, only Tijuana and Nuevo Laredo in MX and only ONT and Quebec in CDA.

[HoltCalifornia]

@FreewayBrent Dang! Where do you work to get that much vacation days?

[1991edm]

nice tune

[jmantra623]

The birth of i-95, it brings tears to my eyes

[FreewayBrent]

@jmantra623: Haha.

[alligatoralley748]

what song is this?

[FreewayBrent]

@alligatoralley748: It is called "The Notice" by Chris Lake and Nadia Ali. The full details are available, by scrolling toward the last 10 seconds of this video (I always list the song artist and title at the very end of my videos, in case anybody is interested in downloading the track). Hope this helps. Thanks for watching. :-)

[pepedone]

Beautiful! I love the US! Greetings from Italy!

[FreewayBrent]

@pepedone: Greetings from the USA!

[ScrewdUPClickV2]

Freeway Brent Takin this Highway shit over .. aint takin no shit from anythang

[FreewayBrent]

@ScrewdUPClickV2: lol

[Franks4488]

Rly nice video ! thumbs up ! ... Miami is one of my favourite US city... and also nice music dude ^^

[eluko79]

Excellent work. One of my favorite routes to look at on the street view.

[adrianroam95]

is it just me or is everything concrete/

[JayBrodieBro]

Man I love all you videos!!!!!!

[FreewayBrent]

@JayBrodieBro: Thanks, man! Appreciate the kind words. :-)

[hadabenz]

Great Video with all the information listed. wow i'm totally impressed with the effort that you put in to making this virtual trip as enjoyable as possible.. and what a great tune from Nadia Ali.. Cheers mate !

[FreewayBrent]

@hadabenz: Thanks, man! I saw your comment on my I-80 (Utah) video as well, but I was really hoping you'd watch one of my most recent videos, as this video, more or less, represents what my future releases will look like.

In the future, I plan on eventually re-editing the best of my scenic and urban videos, and introduce my revised annotation format. Should look much better, especially with videos such as the I-80 you watched.

Thanks again!

[RedroomStudios]

that is a really impressive stretch of freeway! loving your always improving graphical content / production style!

I've been to Florida twice before but never went as far south as Miami... one of these days.

[FreewayBrent]

@RedroomStudios: Yeah, I-95 is definitely an impressive freeway, especially by east coast standards. That soaring HOV flyover ramp in the median, about 3/5 into the video, was built in 1995; kinda reminds me in some ways of the I-110 elevated HOV structure in Los Angeles.

[michael112254]

@FreewayBrent What happens when a vehicle wanders into the HOV lane without a Sun Pass transponder? I bet a lot of tourists do that by mistake.

[Cyrus992]

Hey Brent, Do you have any or planning to show clips of the Florida Turnpike anytime soon? I heard its very interesting!!

[FreewayBrent]

@Cyrus992: Unfortunately, I did not record Florida's Turnpike, when I was driving around the state. In my true honest opinion, there are more interesting freeways to be found in Florida, although there is a section, northwest of Orlando, that is actually relatively hilly. Hills and Florida, now those are 2 words that you don't often see thrown together in the same sentence!

[Cyrus992]

@FreewayBrent That okay... just show me the one that are the most interesting!! BTW, Did you delete some of your videos in Las Vegas and Southern California?

[ScrewdUPClickV2]

does anyone kno the status of this freeway in evacu plans ?

[Cyrus992]

@ScrewdUPClickV2 Texas recieves hurricanes!! What happened in Houston during Rita? Both ways were converted to one way!! I think that was I-45..

[ScrewdUPClickV2]

@Cyrus992 well Texas is well prepared in the situtation along most of its southern Interstates . but i noticed the sign's here sayn its a evacuation route. where are the evacu lanes ? , where are the additional lanes ? . there is no substantial median along i-95 here in order to obtain additional flow of traffic? does freeway has contraflow posibility's?

[Cyrus992]

@ScrewdUPClickV2 I understand what you mean.. It might be on the other highways.

[patrick560sl]

this is terrific! as always well done!

[FreewayBrent]

@patrick560sl: Thanks!

[cpaq142002]

i wonder what kind of car do you have? and you use that car for all your trips around the united states?

[FreewayBrent]

@cpaq142002: Hey there. I have a simple 2009 Corolla, and yup, I have indeed taken that car all over the country (and North America).

[ScrewdUPClickV2]

for one . im glad you chose Florida , over your previous thought . one thing i must say is that the editing is consistant , and impressive . A good way to show off some of the Interstate systems best interchanges along any route in the country . and to conclude this video at one of my favorite sprawling interchanges it deserves a favorite on my list .. Congrats and good job .

[FreewayTitan]

That's a nice video Brent, the 95 is a staple of the East Coast. 5*

[FreewayBrent]

@FreewayTitan: You've got that right. Thanks for watching.

[Bryant5493]

Awesome south Florida drive, Brent.

[FreewayBrent]

@Bryant5493: No problem, my friend.

[Bbgunn325]

I remember getting lost at the Golden Glades. It was 8pm and I got distracted by the Silver Meteor running next to me. I tell you ane thing, they don't like New York plates in the wrong neighborhood. ;-)

[FreewayBrent]

@Bbgunn325: Driving thru it a few times, I never got lost thru it, but a big part of that was because I've studied it on maps before. Even so, while putting this video together, it still took me several minutes to decipher what routes were served by each ramp. Truly a strange configuration, maybe the strangest I've ever seen for such a major interchange.

LOL @ your other comment.

[adogg619]

Very nice, I need to go back to florida this summer.

Just want to add that a section of this freeway midway in the video reminds me of a section of I-10 East in Los Angeles between I-710 and I-605.

[FreewayBrent]

@adogg619: I can see why you would draw the comparison to I-10.

Thanks for watching!

[unfreeway]

Have to say that I love your new annotations and the way you edit your videos. Great job Brent.

[FreewayBrent]

@unfreeway: Thank you, thank you!

[IsoscelesKramer]

Fantastic job, Brent! I like the addition of the bird's-eye view.

[FreewayBrent]

@IsoscelesKramer: Thank you very much!  I got that idea from FreewayJim, although I didn't start implementing it until my Ontario Hwy 401 video.

[Freewayjim]

Great job with the video Brent, I know you worked really hard on this one, BIG Thumbs up!

[FreewayBrent]

@Freewayjim: I sure did. Thanks!

[VaFreeways]

Nice job, Brent!

[FreewayBrent]

@VaFreeways:  Thank you!

[bogdymol]

Great video! I-95 Miami - West Palm Beach - Cape Canaveral is the most interesting freeway I have driven on.

[FreewayBrent]

@bogdymol: It's definitely up there, and especially by East Coast standards. 

[GeoffJennyOliver]

...great stuff - luv the city views too...

[FreewayBrent]

@GeoffJennyOliver: Especially at night time, the city is *very* photogenic.

[aswchris]

Great job Brent! Only in the US you can drive a freeway with such skylines ahead of you...

Do people actually commute all the way from the WPB area into downtown Miami?

[FreewayBrent]

@aswchris: Hey Chris. As far as commuting all the way from WPB, some certainly do it, although those people are certainly in the minority, as housing prices aren't (as) expensive as what you see in much of urban California.

What would you say is the best freeway to drive along in Europe, for skyline views?

[IsoscelesKramer]

@aswchris There's also a commuter rail between WPB and Miami, so those who do commute don't have to drive.

[AlvinHDavernport]

@aswchris There is some WPB-MIA commuting but it's not a high-volume thing. As you know, the Greater Miami area's (aka South Florida or the Gold Coast) three counties are kind of lined up in a row, Broward being in the middle, so it's a very elongated metro area. You do see a lot of commuting from and to Broward, since none of its neighborhoods is more than 75 minutes away from any part of SFL, but parts of WPB are 90-100 minutes away from downtown Miami, even driving at a nice, constant 80 mph.

[AlvinHDavernport]

Amazing. I never get tired of those skyline views at the beginning, and I have to say this whole video brings a lot of memories to my mind (my dad and I used to go from Fort Lauderdale to Miami to visit my grandma every month or so, and we usually drove down I-95 till its terminus and continued down US-1). And yeah, you do see a couple of nice interchanges that by East Coast standards are almost insane. What I don't miss is motorcycles flying by at 3000 mph!!

[FreewayBrent]

@AlvinHDavernport: I feel you on that. Seeing my own footage certainly brought back a lot good memories from South Florida. The I-595 interchange is right up there amongst my favorites on the East Coast (I-595 is basically a series of one flyover after another).

[AlvinHDavernport]

@FreewayBrent Absolutely. I love I-595, short as it is. The Sawgrass Expressway interchange at its western terminus is probably my favorite interchange ever.

I really, really like the Broward area, especially west of US 441 (and east of I-95, of course!). It's probably one of Florida's prettiest suburban areas, with really smooth roads, an expansive waterway network, and lots and lots of greenery.

[cpDq231]

another great video Brent.

[FreewayBrent]

@cpDq231: Thank you!

[CosmoPhotography]

Now this is badass! Awesome work, Brent!

95 in South Florida is one of the most challenging roads to drive even for the most experienced drivers. It's also one of my favorites (love that skyline view in the beginning and from the HOV flyover at Golden Glades). Like you new signs, too! ;-)

[FreewayBrent]

@CosmoPhotography: Yeah, once you combine the high traffic counts with the different lane configurations and left-handed entrances and exits from and to major freeway junctions, I can see how it can definitely be confusing to drive. I'll agree, the skyline views afforded from I-95 are great, and especially at night, when all the buildings are nicely lit up.

As far as all the inserted signs are concerned, well, I think *you* started that trend. :-)

[JMB106]

Awesome video Brent, as always. I'll be heading to Miami in 3 days :)