FL823 - Flamingo Road Aerial (30658949200)

Florida State Road 823 (SR 823) is a long

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in the U.S. state of

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. The road runs from

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(US 27 or SR 25) in

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to Interstate 595 (I-595 or SR 862) and SR 84 in

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. The section in

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, through Hialeah and

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, is known as

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(also known West Fourth Avenue in Hialeah's

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and West 57th Avenue in the countywide grid). In

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, the road turns northwest and merges into Flamingo Road, until its terminus in Davie, though the road continues without designation into

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. South of a gap due to

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, Red Road is State Road 959.

Route description

State Road 823

State Road 823 begins at the northside of the

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( US 27), being the northern segment of Red Road, running through the city of

as their West 4th Avenue, with intersections with State Road 934 and State Road 932. It has an interchange with State Road 924, and exits Hialeah at the intersection with State Road 916 (West 84th Street) and again becomes Northwest 57th Avenue at the southwest end of the

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. SR 823 continues north dividing the incorporated town of

to the west from

and the city of

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to the east until it crosses the Palmetto Expressway (SR 826) where it continues to run north through unincorporated Miami-Dade County, with an intersection with State Road 860 in that stretch. North of Honey Hill Drive, SR 823 becomes the dividing line between Miramar,

and unincorporated

, before fully entering Broward County and Miramar just south of the

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(SR 821). Curving northwest starting at the intersection with Miramar Parkway, SR 823 merges onto Flamingo Road, first intersecting State Road 820 by CB Smith Park and

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, followed by others at State Road 848, and State Road 818 before reaching its northern terminus with Interstate 595 (SR 826) and State Road 84.

County Road 823

Flamingo Road continues north beyond I-595 / SR 84 without state designation, providing access to

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, one of the largest enclosed

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s in the United States, and the

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, home of the

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team. This extension has the hidden designation of County Road 823. The northern terminus of Flamingo Road is at an

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with Oakland Park Boulevard, itself an extension of SR 816, and the

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( SR 869), 3.69 miles (5.94 km) north of I-595.

History

State Road 368 was defined by state law in 1937. This route ran along Red Road (present SR 823) from pre-1945 SR 26 (now US 27) in Hialeah north to

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Road (Northwest 138th Street, currently SR 916). There it turned west until County Road 80, where it turned back south to SR 26. The other section of present SR 823 was defined in 1939 as State Road 517, running along Flamingo Road from Pembroke Road north to a branch of pre-1945 SR 26 (now SR 84). In the 1945 renumbering, all but the southernmost mile of SR 517 became State Road 823 (giving it a southern terminus of SR 820). At some point, it was extended south to Snake Creek Canal and Northwest 202nd Street, just south of the Dade (now

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) County boundary. The other piece, partly former SR 368, was designated State Road 819 (SR 819) in the 1945 renumbering. This ran from SR 25 (now US 27) north to Golden Glades Drive (Northwest 167th Street, which later became part SR 826 before construction of the Palmetto Expressway), using former SR 368 south of Northwest 138th Street. The rest of SR 368 was not assigned a number, but part of it is now SR 916. This was extended north to SR 860 (Northwest 183rd Street) at some point; SR 819 was redesignated State Road 955 (SR 955) in 1983 as part of a statewide reorganization of State Roads. Around 1992, the diagonal connection between Red Road and Flamingo Road was built, allowing SR 823 to extend south over that connection, first ending at SR 860, then taking over SR 955 in the mid 1990s. The former piece of SR 823 on Flamingo Road to the county line was kept as an unsigned State Road (to be designated State Road 9823).

"The Most Dangerous Intersection in America"

In 2001,

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ranked the intersection of Flamingo Road and Pines Boulevard in

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, "The Most Dangerous Intersection in America". Using data from over a two-year period, the company found that 357 vehicular accidents happened during their study at the intersection, which is where C. B. Smith Park,

, a hospital, and two

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are located. This prompted the city to make drastic changes to the intersection, which included lengthening the turning lanes and adding

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s. The number of accidents have since dropped significantly at the intersection.

State Road 9823

In the early 1980s, there was apparently a reconfiguration of SR 823 in the Miami-Lakes area, but sources from

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to Miami-Dade County Planning to various commercial road maps disagree (in fact, contemporaneous documents from FDOT disagree on whether such a realignment actually happened). The majority of the sources contend that by 1983, SR 823 was rerouted along Northwest 68th Avenue and Miami Gardens Drive (SR 860) before returning to Ludlam Road. After the shifting of SR 823 to Red Road, some sources indicated that FDOT was maintaining an "unsigned State Road 9823" that was part of an earlier configuration of SR 823 that had since been orphaned. One FDOT document indicated that SR 9823 was the stretch of Flamingo Road from the Red Road connector to a point under the

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underpass; another FDOT document indicated it extended to the Miami-Dade/Broward County line or the original southern terminus near Snake Creek Canal. Yet other FDOT documents don't even indicate it ever existed.

planning maps do not show any indication of the existence of SR 9823, except for one that indicated the segment from the

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to Broward County via Ludlam Road (with a "side trip" along Northwest 68th Avenue and SR 860) was SR 9823. This is also indicated by a handful of commercially prepared road maps (although a 2004 commercially prepared road map indicates SR 9823—as "County Road 9823"—is strictly Ludlam Road north of SR 826). Yet other sources do not indicate the existence of such a "hidden" State Road at all. While there is a preponderance of evidence indicating SR 9823 having existed and taken the "Miami Lakes detour", this remains an open question.

Major intersections

References

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