Sunset Drive
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| Sunset Drive South 72nd Street |
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| Maintained by FDOT and Miami-Dade County | ||||
| Length: | 12.6 mi[1] (20.28 km) SR 986 is 6.788 mi (10.924 km). The unsigned portion is 5.8 mi (9.3 km). |
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| West end: | West 167th Avenue | |||
 SR 985 in Kendall SR 973 in Kendall SR 826 in Glenvar Heights  US 1 / SR 5 in South Miami |
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| East end: | LeJeune Road and Old Cutler Road at Cartagena Plaza in Coral Gables | |||
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| Counties: | Miami-Dade | |||
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→Sunset Drive, also South 72nd Street and partly co-signed State Road 986, is a 12.6-mile-long (20.3 km) east–west road west of downtown Miami, Florida, United States. It traverses the Miami suburbs of Kendall, South Miami, and Coral Gables.
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Route description [edit]
Sunset Drive begins as a local street at Southwest 167th Avenue in western Miami-Dade County), and heads east. It gains the SR 986 designation at West 127th Avenue, 4.0 miles (6.4 km) later.
The SR 986 section of Sunset Drive is mostly a residential street, with a few businesses and strip malls lining the street at major intersections. Sunset Drive heads east from West 127th Avenue towards the West Dade Expressway, without an interchange, and then intersects West 117th Avenue 150 yards east of the HEFT. SR 986 continues east through residential areas, crossing under the Don Shula Expressway without an interchange before an intersection with SR 973 (Galloway Road). East of Galloway Road, SR 986 passes through exclusive residential areas for the rest of its journey. It then has an interchange with the Palmetto Expressway, and continues east, leaving unincorporated Miami-Dade County and entering the city of South Miami between West 69th Court and West 68th Court.[2] SR 986 passes by the South Miami Hospital just two blocks before it terminates at US 1 (South Dixie Highway), where Sunset Drive continues as a local road.[3][4]
Sunset Drive then continues a further 1.8 miles (2.9 km) eastwards, immediately leaving Coral Gables, crossing South Miami at Red Road, before terminating at Cartagena Plaza where it connects with Old Cutler Road, Cocoplum Road, LeJeune Road and Ingraham Highway.
History [edit]
In 1996, the Florida State Legislature passed a resolution renaming SR 986 as Marjory Stoneman Douglas Sunset Drive.
Until 1997, its eastern terminus was three blocks further to the east of US 1 at Red Road, to intersect with a since-truncated SR 959 on the South Miami-Coral Gables boundary.
Major junctions [edit]
This table only covers the portion signed as SR 986. The entire route is in Miami-Dade County.
| Location | Mile[1] | km | Destinations | Notes | ||||
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| 0.000 | 0.000 | SW 127th Avenue | Western terminus, Sunset Drive continues west | |||||
| 1.018 | 1.638 | SW 117th Avenue | ||||||
| 2.018 | 3.248 | SR 985 |
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| 4.018 | 6.466 | SR 973 (Galloway Road) |
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| 5.002– 5.107 |
8.050– 8.219 |
SR 826 (Palmetto Expressway) |
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| South Miami | 6.788 | 10.924 | US 1 / SR 5 (South Dixie Highway) |
Eastern terminus, Sunset Drive continues east | ||||
| 1.000 mi = 1.609 km; 1.000 km = 0.621 mi | ||||||||
References [edit]
- ^ a b "Straight Line Diagram of Road Inventory" (PDF). Florida Department of Transportation. October 24, 2012. Retrieved April 15, 2013.
- ^ City of South Miami Map
- ^ MapQuest, Inc. (2009). Map of Florida State Road 990 (Map). http://www.mapquest.com/mq/6-R1_P7AsnEXSC. Retrieved 2010-07-17.
- ^ Florida Department of Transportation (April 2007). General Highway Map Miami-Dade County, Florida (Map). http://www.dot.state.fl.us/surveyingandmapping/geomap/mida_c.pdf. Retrieved 2010-06-25.
