Florida State Road 973

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State Road 973, locally known as Galloway Road and Southwest or Northwest 87th Avenue, is a nine-mile-long north-south street connecting the Dolphin Expressway (SR 836) in Doral, Florida with U.S. Route 1 (SR 5/South Dixie Highway) in Pinecrest.^[1] The southern end involves a one-block segment of Southwest 132nd Street that has a sign that can be seen by northbound traffic only (the southernmost SR 973 reassurance sign for southbound traffic is a block to the north, on Galloway Road).

Galloway Road is actually the name applied to several discontiguous pieces of Northwest 87th Avenue and Southwest 87th Avenue from Medley to the north to Cutler Bay to the south. While it appears that SR 973 is primarily a bypass of the heavily-congested Palmetto Expressway, much of Galloway Road actually predates it, having been laid (but not necessarily paved) in the 1940s and 1950s. Galloway Road was part of a collection of Dade (now Miami-Dade) County streets that the Florida Department of Transportation added to its maintenance list in 1980: it was originally assigned the State Road 915 designation, but in 1983, the number was changed to SR 973 as part of a statewide renumbering.

State Road 973 has a variety of sights along its route. South of SR 878 is primarily suburban housing; between SR 878 and the Dolphin Expressway is a mix between businesses and suburban housing. As Galloway Road continues to the north in Doral, it goes though a large business center before approaching Doral Golf Resort and Spa.