Florida State Road 826

The Florida State Road 826 is a state highway in the U.S. state of Florida, which is almost completely highway-like expanded and locally known as the Palmetto Expressway. It leads to a length of about 48 kilometers of Pinecrest Sunny Isles Beach within the Miami -Dade County. The road is operated by the Florida Department of Transportation ( FDOT ).

Route

The SR 826 begins in Pinecrest, southwest of Miami, where it branches off from U.S. Highway 1, and then crosses the State Road 94 After then the Snapper Creek Expressway ( SR 878 ) passes under crossing-free, it crosses State Road 986 In its Later in the north flows the Don Shula Expressway ( SR 874) in the State Road; this then crosses successively the State Roads 976, 90 ( U.S. 41 ), 968, 836, 948, 934, U.S. Highway 27 and State Road 932 Thereafter branches off at a motorway junction State Road 924 and Interstate 75, before the street in Miami Lakes in a curve to the right, running due east. Finally, the road crosses the State Roads 823 and 817 before the Golden Glades Interchange, 8 km north of Miami, meets and here loses its capacity as Expressway. Then it leads to their last 10 km, normal city street further over North Miami Beach to Sunny Isles Beach, where it meets State Road A1A and ends.

History

In 1956, several plans to build a highway network in Miami -Dade County were presented, including the Palmetto Expressway. Under the direction of FDOT finally began in 1958 the construction of the road. In this case, their possessions, many landowners had to resign in favor of the new expressway.

In June 1961, the expressway was opened at construction cost of approximately 30 million U.S. dollars. Thus, the road was (apart from the Florida 's Turnpike ) was the first expressway, which opened in Miami -Dade County. The completion of the Palmetto Expressway was next to the construction of Interstate 95, the foundation stone for the construction of the Golden Glades Interchange, which is the southern terminus of the Turnpike also and also from the U.S. Highway 441 and the State Roads 7 and 9 is happening.

The Expressway, which usually still led by rural area in the early days, contributed over the years to the urbanization of the area in the greater Miami area. Several junctions were expanded to crosses in particular in the 1970s due to the increasing volume of traffic. 1974 on the Homestead Extension ( SR 821 ) was in the north and west, as the discharge of the expressway finally built around the leads at a distance of 6 km in an even wider arc around Miami and thus as it were, is a tangent to the tangent.

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