Kendall Drive
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Kendall Drive, also known as Southwest 88th Street and historically North Kendall Drive, runs for 13.3 miles (21.4 km)[2] in an east–west orientation across mid-southern Miami-Dade County, Florida. The majority of Kendall Drive, between State Road 997 at The Hammocks and US 1 (State Road 5) on the Kendall–Pinecrest border, is signed as the 10.7-mile-long (17.2 km)[3][4] State Road 94 (SR 94). The road serves as a major arterial road through the suburbs of the southern Miami metropolitan area, connecting its predominantly residential neighborhoods to shopping districts and to three freeways, allowing commuter travel.
Route description
Until it reaches Southwest 107th Avenue (
Kendall Drive and Southwest 88th Street continue east past the oblique junction with US 1 as a four-laned divided road, surrounded by condominiums, until it crosses Ludlam Road and narrows to a tree-lined two-laned undivided residential road as it passes Gulliver Preparatory School. Mansions and large-lot houses border the road to the south, with villas to the north as Kendall Drive continues eastwards, before turning more and more markedly to the southeast as it approaches the Snapper Creek Canal and Red Road (Southwest 57th Avenue). Southwest 88th Street takes a sharp dogleg to the left, sharing Red Road's bridge over the canal before continuing east again. Now running along a northern border of Coral Gables,[8] Kendall Drive continues east past more houses and lakeside villas until it reaches its end at an intersection with Old Cutler Road.[2]
History
Like its eponymous community, Kendall Drive is named for Henry John Boughton Kendall, a trustee of the Florida Land and Mortgage Company which purchased the tract of land now situated between Southwest 88th and Southwest 104th Streets in 1883. Henry Kendall managed the fruit groves set up by the company in the area.[9] Southwest 88th Street, the road along the northern end of the holdings, began to be referred to as "North" Kendall Drive,[10] although the application of the "North" component of the name is applied inconsistently along the road's signage.[11][12]
Until a series of truncations throughout the system of State Roads by the Florida Department of Transportation, SR 94 extended eastward to SR 959 at the intersection of Kendall Drive and Red Road (South 88th Street and West 57th Avenue) in Pinecrest; both State Roads were cut back to US 1 by 2001.[citation needed]
Major intersections
The entire route is in Miami-Dade County.
| Location | mi[1] | km | Destinations | Notes | |
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| The Hammocks | 0.000 | 0.000 |  SR 997 (Southwest 177th Avenue / Krome Avenue) | Western terminus | |
SR 825 south (Southwest 137th Avenue / Lindgren Road) | |||||
| Kendale Lakes–The Crossings– Kendall tripoint | 5.67 | 9.12 |  Florida's Turnpike Extension (SR 821) – Orlando, Homestead | Turnpike Exit 20 | |
MDC Kendall Campus | |||||
| 8.04 | 12.94 |    SR 874 / SR 878 east – South Miami, Homestead | |||
| 9.145 | 14.717 |  SR 973 (Southwest 87th Avenue / Galloway Road) | |||
| 10.18 | 16.38 |      International Airport | interchange; no access from SR 94 west to SR 826 south | ||
| Kendall–Pinecrest line | 10.700 | 17.220 | US 1 (Pinecrest Parkway / South Dixie Highway) | Eastern terminus Kendall Drive continues east | |
| 1.000 mi = 1.609 km; 1.000 km = 0.621 mi | |||||
See also
U.S. Roads portal
- List of state highways in Florida
- List of highways numbered 94
References
- ^ a b FDOT straight line diagrams Archived 2014-03-06 at the Wayback Machine, accessed March 2014
- ^ a b Google (May 18, 2013). "Map of Kendall Drive/Southwest 88th Street, Miami-Dade County, Florida" (Map). Google Maps. Google. Retrieved May 18, 2013.
- ^ a b District 6 (February 2, 2011). "Straight Line Diagram of Road Inventory". Florida Department of Transportation. Archived from the original (PDF) on July 18, 2013. Retrieved May 18, 2013.
{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: numeric names: authors list (link) - ^ a b Google (May 18, 2013). "Map of State Road 94, Miami-Dade County, Florida" (Map). Google Maps. Google. Retrieved May 18, 2013.
- ^ U.S. Census Bureau. January 7, 2011. Sheet 83. Retrieved May 19, 2013.
- ^ a b General Highway Map Miami-Dade County, Florida (PDF) (Map) (May 2010 ed.). Cartography by Surveying and Mapping Office, State of Florida, Department of Transportation. Florida Department of Transportation. April 2007. Archived from the original (PDF) on June 16, 2011. Retrieved May 19, 2013.
- ^ a b c P.L. 94-171 County Block Map (2010 Census): Miami-Dade County, FL (PDF) (Map). Cartography by Geography Division. U.S. Census Bureau. January 7, 2011. Sheet 84. Retrieved May 19, 2013.
- ^ a b P.L. 94-171 County Block Map (2010 Census): Miami-Dade County, FL (PDF) (Map). Cartography by Geography Division. U.S. Census Bureau. January 7, 2011. Sheet 86. Retrieved May 19, 2013.
- ^ Vision Internet, ed. (2013). "Village of Pinecrest, Florida : Street Name Origins". Village of Pinecrest. Retrieved May 19, 2013.
- ^ Harum-Alvarez, Albert (2004). "The Dice House - Dice House Lucks Out". Kenwood's 75th Anniversary: 1929-2004. Retrieved May 19, 2013.
- ^ Google (May 19, 2013). "Google Maps Street View picture of North Kendall Drive exit sign on State Road 826, Kendall, Florida" (Map). Google Maps. Google. Retrieved May 19, 2013.
- ^ Google (May 19, 2013). "Google Maps Street View picture of Kendall Drive sign at Ludlam Road, Pinecrest, Florida" (Map). Google Maps. Google. Retrieved May 19, 2013.
External links
Media related to Florida State Road 94 at Wikimedia Commons
