Florida State Road 909

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SR 909 was also the original number for what is now State Road 989.

State Road 909 is a 3.77-mile (6.06 km) state highway in northern Miami-Dade County, Florida, United States. It runs along West Dixie Highway, the original alignment of the Dixie Highway^[1], from the east end of Gratigny Drive (SR 924/Northeast 119th Street) in North Miami northeast to North Miami Beach Boulevard (SR 826/Northeast 163rd Street) in North Miami Beach, just across the Florida East Coast Railway from Biscayne Boulevard (US 1-SR 5)^[2]. State Road 909 is actually in two pieces as motorists traveling the route in North Miami encounter signs on North Miami Boulevard (SR 922/Northeast 125th Street) saying "TO 909" and "To W Dixie Hwy" and guiding them along a two-block "detour" to the other section.

[edit] History

Since current SR 909 was the original Dixie Highway, it was part of pre-1945 SR 4. This old alignment continued south on Northeast Second Avenue to downtown Miami (the southern part was designated State Road 815 until the mid 1990s, and north on streets named West Dixie Highway, North Dixie Highway, and South Dixie Highway to Dania, and was assigned the pre-1945 SR 176 designation in 1931. It, however, did not receive a number in the 1945 renumbering.

For some time, the old (West, South, and North) Dixie Highway from SR 826 in Miami-Dade County north to SR 824 (Pembroke Road) in Broward County was a section of State Road 5A.^[3] This designation survived until the mid-1990s.

West Dixie Highway south of SR 826 received its current Florida Department of Transportation designation in 1983, replacing the its original designation, State Road 929, which was applied by FDOT earlier in the decade.

[edit] References

^ 1927 edition, Standard Oil Company road map of Florida
^ American Map, Florida State Road Atlas (2006) ISBN 0-87530-725-6
^ FDOT, General Highway Map - Broward County, February 1969 (reprinted July 1975 with revisions)