The usual progression calls for old trails …
turning into new (and asphalted) roads.
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| Abandoned stretch of the Tamiami Trail … Not too far from Big Cypress Bend |
Then there’s the case of this old stretch of the Tamiami Trail.
It went in the opposite direction and got abandoned instead.
But don’t worry:
Civilization hasn’t died just yet …
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| It’s fun watching the traffic whiz by from the vantage of the orphaned Trail. |
You can still hear traffic whizzing by.
Apparently this curve was too tight and thus for safety reasons at some point, exactly when I can’t say, road engineers — in all probability during repaving work — decided to straightened it out. That left a little known and less often seen section of orphaned road.
