- Florida State Road 854
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State Road 854 Ives Dairy Road Route information Maintained by FDOT Length: 8.7 mi (14.00 km) Major junctions West end: SR 823 near Miami Lakes I-95 / SR 9 near Aventura
SR 909 in AventuraEast end: US 1 / SR 5 in Aventura Location Counties: Miami-Dade Highway system Florida State and County Roads
Interstate • US • SR (Pre-1945) • Toll • County← SR 852 SR 858 → State Road 854, locally known as Ives Dairy Road, is the former designation for an east–west commuter road spanning 8.7 miles (14.0 km) across northern Miami-Dade County encompasses sections of North 199th Street, North 203rd Street, and North 205th Terrace, and is designated in small portions as Honey Hill Road and Dan Marino Boulevard (near Sun Life Stadium). Its western terminus is an intersection with Red Road/Northwest 57th Avenue (SR 823) near Miami Lakes and Carol City; the eastern terminus is an intersection with Biscayne Boulevard (US 1-SR 5 in Aventura, a half block east of an intersection with West Dixie Highway (the former State Road 5A that once served as part of the Dixie Highway and US 1).
The 1.0-mile-long stretch along Sun Life Stadium notwithstanding, SR 854 snakes through suburban residential developments with the occasional shopping center along the way. The former State Road is often used as an alternative to the Homestead Extension of Florida's Turnpike (SR 821) and the Palmetto Expressway (SR 826) when accidents block lanes of either expressway during the rush hour.
Westbound motorists going beyond the western terminus of SR 854 travel along a divided Northwest 202nd Street, which is just south of Miami-Dade County’s boundary with Broward County and adjacent to Snake Creek Canal. From the late 1950s until 1980, the southern terminus of SR 823 was an intersection of Ludlam Road (West 67th Avenue) and North 202nd Street. To the west, the de facto County Line Road (not to be confused with SR 852 near Calder Race Track) extends an additional 1.5 miles (2.4 km) to its end in a residential division next to Florida’s Turnpike.
Originally, North 199th Street was designated State Road 852 signage from Red Road (now SR 823) to US 1. In a statewide reallocation of numbers in 1983, the SR 852 signs were moved one mile (1.6 km) northward (to County Line Road), and the former SR 852 was relabeled State Road 854, a designation that the route had for two decades (some commercially-available maps still show the road as a State Road despite its reversion to Miami-Dade County maintenance).
Categories:- Former state highways in Florida
- Miami Gardens, Florida
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