Florida State Road 969

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State Road 969, locally known as Milam Dairy Road and Northwest 72d Avenue, is a 7.4-mile-long north-south street west of Miami International Airport in western Miami-Dade County, Florida. The southern terminus is currently an intersection with SR 968 (West Flagler Street) in the city of Miami; its northern terminus is presently an intersection with SR 934, near the present western end of the Hialeah Expressway, just south of Medley. Until 2001, signage indicated that SR 969 actually extended southward into the Flagami section of Miami, to Tamiami Boulevard (only southbound traffic saw the SR 969 reassurance sign just south of Flagler Street; there was no END sign posted at the southern terminus, nor is there one today at either end of the state route). Originally the state route included a small portion of Northwest 12th Street prior to the 1980s . In the 1980s the curve around the airport was extended southward with a bridge over the Dolphin Expressway and 12th Street was no longer part of the route . Originally northbound traffic went north on 72nd Ave west on 12th St and north again on the curved 72nd Ave around the airport .

The major part of the route parallels the Palmetto Expressway (SR 826), 0.5 mile to the west. Access to SR 826 from Milam Dairy Road is achieved through Flagler Street, Dolphin Expressway (SR 836), Northwest 25th Street, Northwest 36th Street (SR 948), Northwest 54th Street, and Northwest 74th Street (SR 934).

North of an extended runway at Miami International Airport, SR 969 passes by and through business parks and industrial parks, including a rail yard operated and maintained by Miami-Dade Transit. In the 1990s and 2000s the Airport West region rapidly increased in commercial importance as Miami's role in international trade (most notably with Central and South America) grew.

Milam Dairy Road received its current SR 969 designation in 1983, when FDOT reassigned numbers to a collection of southeastern Florida streets. Prior to the reassignment, Milam Dairy Road/Northwest 72d Avenue was signed State Road 919.