 State Road 959 | ||||
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| West 57th Avenue /Red Road | ||||
 SR 959 highlighted in red | ||||
| Route information | ||||
| Maintained byFDOT | ||||
| Length | 5.381 mi[1] (8.660 km) | |||
| Existed | 1980–present | |||
| Major junctions | ||||
| South end |  US 1 inSouth Miami-Coral Gables | |||
| Major intersections |  US 41 inCoral Gables-West Miami SR 836 nearMiami International Airport | |||
| North end | Perimeter Road atMiami International Airport | |||
| Location | ||||
| Country | United States | |||
| State | Florida | |||
| Highway system | ||||
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State Road 959 (SR 959), known locally asWest 57th Avenue andRed Road, is a 5.381-mile-long (8.660 km) north-south Florida state highway located in southMiami-Dade County west ofDowntown Miami. It runs fromU.S. 1 at the south end at theSouth Miami-Coral Gables border to Perimeter Road, just south of the runway of theMiami International Airport at its north end.
State Road 959 begins at the intersection with Red Road andUS 1 (South Dixie Highway), with SR 959 heading north, going through the southwestern end of theUniversity of Miami campus, and then through residential areas, as it acts as the dividing line between Coral Gables to its east andSouth Miami and patches of unincorporated Miami-Dade County to the west between US 1 andSR 976 (Bird Road).[2] North of Bird Road, Red Road continues through the residential sections of Coral Gables, and enters the residential areas of West Miami, crossingUS 41 (Tamiami Trail). SR 959 then enters Miami, intersectingSR 968 (Flagler Street). North of NW 5th Street, Red Road becomes more commercial as it approaches the airport area, with a major shopping center and hotel at the intersection with NW 7th Street. Following that, SR 959 then crosses a canal and has an interchange with theDolphin Expressway (SR 836), with the road terminating just north of the interchange at a dead end intersection with North 12th Street/Perimeter Road, just south of theMiami International Airport runway.[3]
This section of Red Road received itsFDOT of SR 959 designation in 1980. Its original configuration was 2.7 miles (4.3 km) longer as it stretched southward to the intersection of Red Road and Southwest 111th Street (Killian Drive), where it met the eastern end ofSR 990 just outside the parking lot of the originalParrot Jungle, a major tourist attraction. Between 1995 and 2001, FDOT truncated several State Roads inMiami-Dade County, and both SR 959 and SR 990 were cut back to terminate at US 1.
The entire route is inMiami-Dade County.
| Location | mi[1] | km | Destinations | Notes | |
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| Coral Gables–South Miami line | 0.000 | 0.000 | US 1 (SouthDixie Highway /SR 5) | no left turn from either direction of SR 959 | |
| Coral Gables | 1.821 | 2.931 |  SR 976 (Southwest 40th Street / Bird Road) | ||
| 2.807 | 4.517 | Coral Way / Southwest 24th Street | |||
| Coral Gables–West Miami line | 3.855 | 6.204 | US 41 (Southwest 8th Street /Tamiami Trail /SR 90) | ||
| Miami | 4.353 | 7.005 |  SR 968 (Flagler Street) | ||
| | 5.27 | 8.48 |        SR 836 toI-95 /SR 826 /Florida's Turnpike Extension –Airport | ||
| | 5.381 | 8.660 | Perimeter Road | Northern terminus | |
| 1.000 mi = 1.609 km; 1.000 km = 0.621 mi | |||||
