Douglas Road, also West 37th Avenue on the greater

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and Northwest 88th Avenue in Miramar, is a north–south

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running west of

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Miami in

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and

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. It changes names and becomes Pine Island Road, at the intersection with Sheridan Street (SR 822).

Route description

Douglas Road begins as South Douglas Road at Edgewater Drive in Coral Gables, immediately west of the city of Miami in

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, headed north toward

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(

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). Soon after crossing US 1, it crosses

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(SR 976), straddling Miami and Coral Gables. Going northward, it crosses

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(SR 972) and the

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(

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) before crossing Miami grid baseline

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(SR 968) and becoming North Douglas Road. West 37th Avenue/Douglas continues northward, crossing a Miami River

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before ending at Northwest 28th Street and South River Drive on the south bank of the Miami River. It begins again on the northern banks of the Miami River at Northwest North River Drive to North 79th Street (SR 934). North of 79th Street, it partially becomes a

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running through railway trackage used by

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and

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, ending at North 95th Street. The road begins briefly again in a small segment between North 103 Street and North 106 Street, just east of

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. Just north of LeJeune Road-Douglas Road Expressway and Ali Baba Avenue in Opa-locka, it begins again as Douglas/West 37th Avenue as a through north–south road and bordering

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to the west briefly, north into Miramar in Broward County. The road continues north to Sheridan Street (SR 822) and changes names from Douglas Road to Pine Island Road where it has an interchange with I-595 and enters Plantation, where it intersects Broward Blvd (SR 842). It then continues north to Coral Springs, where it changes names again to Coral Springs Drive, where it passes through the city. It changes its name back to Pine Island Road when it crosses under the Sawgrass Expressway (SR 869), where it ends in Parkland at SR/CR 827.

History

Forming the eastern boundary of Coral Gables, George Merrick used the

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of the home of John Douglas as the north–south road junction into the city from

in September 1923.

References

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Route description

History

See also

References