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Red Road (Miami)
| Red Road | |
|---|---|
| South end: | Southwest 136th Street in Coral Gables |
| North end: | Broward County line |
Red Road, also known as West 57th Avenue, is a north-south street that runs west of downtown Miami in Miami-Dade County, Florida and into Broward County. Red Road is signed as State Road 959 from U.S. 1 to the Dolphin Expressway, and State Road 823 from U.S. 27 to the Broward County line.
Route description
See also: Florida State Road 959 and Florida State Road 823
The southern terminus is at South 136th Street (Howard Drive) in Gables by the Sea, with the incorporated village of Pinecrest to the northwest corner and the city of Coral Gables to the east and south.
From this point north it goes a short distance before it ends at Campamento Avenue in Coral Gables. It continues where Old Cutler Road curves near Campamento Avenue and shares its name with Old Cutler Road for a short distance until Old Cutler Road veers east.
It continues north, skirting the east side of Pinecrest as West 57th Avenue, roughly dividing it from Coral Gables until it crosses Kendall Drive (South 88th Street) where it divides the city of South Miami to the west from a plot of unincorporated Miami-Dade County to the east.[1]
North of Sunset Drive (South 72nd Street) it divides the city of South Miami from Coral Gables until it crosses South 64th Street, where it continues to divide Coral Gables to the east with either South Miami or unincorporated patches of Miami-Dade County to the west.[2]
North of crossing US 1 (South Dixie Highway), Red Road is signed as SR 959. It ends at the Miami International Airport runways at North 12th Street (also known as Perimeter Road) just north of the Dolphin Expressway (SR 836), where State Road 959 also ends.
It continues on the north side of Miami International Airport at North 36th Street and runs through the city of Miami Springs as Curtiss Parkway, their main north-south road, until it ends at Hunting Lodge Drive where Curtiss Parkway curves northeast.
It continues on the northside of the Miami Canal at Okeechobee Road (US 27) and runs through the city of Hialeah as their West 4th Avenue and signed as SR 823. It exits Hialeah when it crosses West 84th Street (Hialeah grid) or North 135th Street (Miami-Dade County grid) and again becomes Northwest 57th Avenue.
It continues north dividing the incorporated town of Miami Lakes to the west from Opa-locka Airport and the city of Miami Gardens to the east until it crosses the Palmetto Expressway (SR 826) where it continues to run north through unincorporated Miami-Dade County.
North of North 202nd Street (Honey Hill Drive) it divides Broward County and the city of Miramar to the west with unincorporated Miami-Dade County to the east, until it fully enters Broward County and Miramar just south of the Homestead Extension of Florida's Turnpike (State Road 821).[3]
It continues north into Broward County and Miramar for a short distance until it curves northwest and merges onto Flamingo Road.
History
When George Merrick made plans for the layout of Coral Gables in the 1920s he intended Red Road to be the western boundary of his planned city. The east–west Coral Way (later to be part of SR 972), the northeast-southwest South Dixie Highway (soon to be designated US 1), and the north–south Ponce de Leon Boulevard were intended to be main throughways, and the Tamiami Trail (soon to be part of US 94, which would in turn be folded into US 41 in 1949) was planned to be the northern boundary.
Red Road gets its name from the color of the mark Merrick made when he drew the road on his planning map; similarly, an east–west street was drawn in with a blue pencil and was named Blue Road.
Red Road received its FDOT SR 959 designation in 1980. Its original configuration was four miles (6 km) longer as it stretched southward to the intersection of Red Road and Southwest 111th Street (Killian Drive), where it met the eastern end of SR 990 just outside the parking lot of the original Parrot Jungle, a major tourist attraction. Between 1995 and 2001, FDOT truncated several State Roads in Miami-Dade County, and both SR 959 and SR 990 were cut back to terminate at US 1. In 2002, Parrot Jungle closed its doors to its original home, moved to its present site on Watson Island, just off SR A1A, and became Parrot Jungle Island.
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