Florida State Road 994 Explained

State:FL
Type:SR
Route:994
Alternate Name:Quail Roost Drive
Map Custom:yes
Map Notes:SR 994 highlighted in red
Maint:FDOT
Length Mi:8.058
Length Round:3
Established:1983 (as SR 994)
Direction A:West
Terminus A: in Redland
Junction: in South Miami Heights
Direction B:East
Terminus B: in Cutler Bay
Counties:Miami-Dade
Previous Type:SR
Previous Route:992
Next Type:SR
Next Route:997

State Road 994 (SR 994), locally known as Quail Roost Drive, is an 8.06adj=midNaNadj=mid east - west four-lane road in southern Miami-Dade County, Florida area. It connects Krome Avenue (SR 997) with U.S. Route 1.

Route description

State Road 994's western terminus lies in Redland, about 2miles northwest of the former Aladdin City and 7.5miles north of Homestead at a signalised intersection with Krome Avenue (SR 997), at the south-eastern corner of a housing estate. It heads east as Quail Roost Drive, or Southwest 200th Street, an undivided two-lane road through farmland, crossing CSX tracks after 1.9miles. After continuing east for another 2.1miles, SR 994 reaches Southwest 137th Avenue and enters suburbia. Upon crossing the Black Creek Canal 1100yd later, Quail Roost Drive enters the community of South Miami Heights,[1] and soon reaches Southwest 127th Avenue where it expands to four lanes. After the intersection, SR 994 turns to the northeast and continues on this trajectory for the next 1.6miles, losing the Southwest 200th Street designation, and passing through a residential neighbourhood and shopping district. As it turns back to the east, SR 994 has an interchange with the Homestead Extension of Florida's Turnpike, passing beneath it, before picking up the Southwest 186th Street designation as it leaves South Miami Heights while crossing another canal.[2] Afterwards, Quail Roost Drive passes through a mixture of commercial and light industrial uses, before crossing the South Miami-Dade Busway, forming the boundary between Cutler Bay and West Perrine's south-eastern corner. One block later, SR 994 terminates at US 1, the South Dixie Highway.[3]

From SR 994's western terminus, Southwest 200th Street continues on through farmland in two segments, one from SR 994's terminus to Southwest 187th Street as a two-laned road, and again from just east of Southwest 194th Avenue to Southwest 207th Avenue, just east of the Aerojet canal, as an unmarked rural street and in some places little more than a gravel road. East of the SR 994 terminus, Southwest 186th Street continues on for several blocks into Cutler Bay to terminate at Southwest 97th Street.

History

From 1980 to 1983 (when the Florida Department of Transportation reallocated route numbers in a statewide reorganization), Quail Roost Drive was designated State Road 974.

Notes and References

  1. P.L. 94-171 County Block Map (2010 Census): Miami-Dade County, FL . . January 7, 2011 . Geography Division . Sheet 110 . PDF . May 18, 2013.
  2. P.L. 94-171 County Block Map (2010 Census): Miami-Dade County, FL . U.S. Census Bureau . January 7, 2011 . \Geography Division . Sheet 111 . PDF . May 18, 2013.
  3. Map of State Road 994 . 2009 . MapQuest, Inc. . September 25, 2010 .