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Golden Glades Interchange
Golden Glades Interchange
	The Golden Glades Interchange
Location
	Miami Gardens – North Miami Beach, Florida
Coordinates	25°55′40″N 80°12′30″W / 25.92765°N 80.208203°W
Roads at; junction	I-95 (SR 9A); Florida's Turnpike (SR 91); US 441 / SR 7; SR 9; SR 826 (Palmetto Expressway)
Construction
Opened	1953
Maintained by	FDOT

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The Golden Glades Interchange, located in Miami Gardens and North Miami Beach, Florida, United States, is the confluence of six major roads serving eastern and southern Florida. It is named after the original name of North 167th Street, Golden Glades Road.

Description

The six highways that come together at the interchange are U.S. Route 441 (US 441), Florida's Turnpike, the Palmetto Expressway (signed State Road 826), SR 9, North Miami Beach Boulevard (NW 167th Street) and Interstate 95 (I-95). US 441 bears SR 7 as a hidden designation, and the turnpike is similarly SR 91. SR 9 is the hidden designation for I-95 north of the interchange but branches southward off I-95 to become a major commercial road on its own accord. South of the interchange, I-95 bears SR 9A as its hidden designation.

History

The Golden Glades interchange initially opened as an intersection between US 441 and SR 826 in 1953, expanding into its current form in the next decade. Its construction was prompted by a sequence of events spanning 12 years. In 1950, US 441 was extended from downtown Orlando to Miami to connect with a stretch of US 41 which sported US 94 road signs just a year earlier. In 1957, Florida's Turnpike (then called the Sunshine State Parkway) was completed in Dade (later Miami-Dade) County, joining SR 826 (which, at the time was Golden Glades Drive, an east–west street connecting US 1 along Biscayne Bay to US 27 inland). In 1958, construction of the north–south section of the Palmetto Bypass Expressway started, using SR 826 with a 90-degree eastward curve (the western section of SR 826 was to be abandoned). In 1959, construction of a segment of I-95, from Northwest 20th Street in Miami to SR 84 in Fort Lauderdale was started, along with I-195 and the Airport Expressway (SR 112) for access to Miami Beach and Miami International Airport. In 1961, construction of the Palmetto Bypass Expressway (the name was unofficially shortened in the mid-1960s), the Airport Expressway (then called the 36th Street Tollway), and the segment of I-95 south of Northwest 95th Street in Dade County were completed.

Anticipating increasing traffic to and from Dade County, FDOT broke ground on May 18, 1962, for the new Golden Glades Interchange. The section of I-95 from Golden Glades to SR 84 was completed in 1963;^{[citation needed]} the Golden Glades Interchange and I-95 south to Northwest 95th Street opened on June 9, 1964.^[1]

The interchange was also known as the Interama Interchange until it was renamed the Golden Glades Interchange in 1977.^[2]

Flyovers to a commuter train station and bus terminal (in the 1970s) and elevated HOV lanes (in 1995) have been added to it to accommodate the growing regional population, which has more than doubled since the interchange's opening. There were plans in the 1980s to reconstruct the interchange, but they were dropped due to high construction costs.^[3] The Golden Glades has been expanded and worked on several times over the years and is seen as a bottleneck in traffic on all the roads it incorporates.

In 2017, the Florida Department of Transportation plans to widen the turnpike connector to I-95 to five lanes, including two lanes from the turnpike and three lanes from the eastbound Palmetto Expressway. Three lanes will exit to a relocated off-ramp to State Road 7 while the other three lanes will continue to I-95, which will get another lane between the Golden Glades and Northwest 151st Street. The entrance to the southbound express lanes south of the Golden Glades also will be moved 300 feet further south. In addition, the eastbound Palmetto ramp to I-95 will be widened to three lanes – two to southbound I-95 and one on a new direct ramp to northbound I-95.^[4]^[5]^[6]

References

^ ^a ^b Oswald, Jack (June 9, 1964). "All Links Open: Golden Glades Traffic Flows". The Miami News. p. B1. Retrieved August 3, 2011.
^ Staff (April 15, 1977). Journal of the Senate (PDF). Tallahassee, FL: Florida State Senate. p. 155.
^ Turnbell, Michael (March 1, 2009). "Palmetto Expressway to I-95 Link Too Costly". South Florida Sun Sentinel. Archived from the original on March 3, 2016.
^ "Golden Glades Interchange needs a makeover". Archived from the original on 2011-12-06. Retrieved 2011-11-23.
^ "Golden Glades interchange to get a makeover". tribunedigital-sunsentinel. Archived from the original on October 7, 2013. Retrieved 2017-01-06.
^ "Traffic reports: Find Miami road construction, crashes and traffic news". tribunedigital-sunsentinel. Archived from the original on July 24, 2014. Retrieved 2017-01-06.

[reopening-1] Oswald, Jack (June 9, 1964). "All Links Open: Golden Glades Traffic Flows". The Miami News. p. B1. Retrieved August 3, 2011.

[2] Staff (April 15, 1977). Journal of the Senate (PDF). Tallahassee, FL: Florida State Senate. p. 155.

[3] Turnbell, Michael (March 1, 2009). "Palmetto Expressway to I-95 Link Too Costly". South Florida Sun Sentinel. Archived from the original on March 3, 2016.

[goldengladesmakeover-4] "Golden Glades Interchange needs a makeover". Archived from the original on 2011-12-06. Retrieved 2011-11-23.

[5] "Golden Glades interchange to get a makeover". tribunedigital-sunsentinel. Archived from the original on October 7, 2013. Retrieved 2017-01-06.

[6] "Traffic reports: Find Miami road construction, crashes and traffic news". tribunedigital-sunsentinel. Archived from the original on July 24, 2014. Retrieved 2017-01-06.

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 ==Description==
 [[File:Miami skyline from Golden Glades November 2018.jpg|thumb|left|View of the Miami skyline from the express lane overpass]]
-The six highways that come together at the interchange are [[U.S. Route 441 in Florida|U.S. Route 441]] (US&nbsp;441), [[Florida's Turnpike]], the [[Florida State Road 826|Palmetto Expressway]] (signed State Road 826), [[Florida State Road 9|SR&nbsp;9]], North Miami Beach Boulevard (167th Street) and [[Interstate 95 in Florida|Interstate 95]] (I-95). US&nbsp;441 bears [[Florida State Road 7|SR&nbsp;7]] as a hidden designation, and the turnpike is similarly SR 91. SR&nbsp;9 is the hidden designation for I-95 north of the interchange but branches southward off I-95 to become a major commercial road on its own accord. South of the interchange, I-95 bears [[Florida State Road 9A|SR&nbsp;9A]] as its hidden designation.
+The six highways that come together at the interchange are [[U.S. Route 441 in Florida|U.S. Route 441]] (US&nbsp;441), [[Florida's Turnpike]], the [[Florida State Road 826|Palmetto Expressway]] (signed State Road 826), [[Florida State Road 9|SR&nbsp;9]], North Miami Beach Boulevard (NW 167th Street) and [[Interstate 95 in Florida|Interstate 95]] (I-95). US&nbsp;441 bears [[Florida State Road 7|SR&nbsp;7]] as a hidden designation, and the turnpike is similarly SR 91. SR&nbsp;9 is the hidden designation for I-95 north of the interchange but branches southward off I-95 to become a major commercial road on its own accord. South of the interchange, I-95 bears [[Florida State Road 9A|SR&nbsp;9A]] as its hidden designation.
 ==History==
-The Golden Glades interchange initially opened as an intersection between US 441 and SR 826 in 1953, expanding into its current form in the next decade.  Its construction was prompted by a sequence of events spanning 12&nbsp;years. In 1950, US 441 was extended from downtown [[Orlando, Florida|Orlando]] to [[Miami, Florida|Miami]] to connect with a stretch of [[U.S. Route 41 in Florida|US&nbsp;41]] which sported [[U.S. Route 94|US&nbsp;94]] road signs just a year earlier. In 1957, Florida's Turnpike (then called the Sunshine State Parkway) was completed in Dade (later [[Miami-Dade County, Florida|Miami-Dade]]) County, joining SR&nbsp;826 (which, at the time was Golden Glades Drive, an east–west street connecting [[U.S. Route 1 in Florida|US&nbsp;1]] along [[Biscayne Bay]] to [[U.S. Route 27 in Florida|US&nbsp;27]] inland). In 1958, construction of the north–south section of the Palmetto Bypass Expressway started, using SR&nbsp;826 with a 90-degree eastward curve (the western section of SR&nbsp;826 was to be abandoned). In 1959, construction of a segment of I-95, from Northwest 20th Street in Miami to [[Florida State Road 84|SR&nbsp;84]] in [[Fort Lauderdale, Florida|Fort Lauderdale]] was started, along with [[Interstate 195 (Florida)|I-195]] and the [[Florida State Road 112|Airport Expressway]] (SR 112) for access to [[Miami Beach, Florida|Miami Beach]] and [[Miami International Airport]]. In 1961, construction of the Palmetto Bypass Expressway (the name was unofficially shortened in the mid 1960s), the Airport Expressway (then called the 36th Street Tollway), and the segment of I-95 south of Northwest 95th Street in Dade County were completed.
+The Golden Glades interchange initially opened as an intersection between US 441 and SR 826 in 1953, expanding into its current form in the next decade.  Its construction was prompted by a sequence of events spanning 12&nbsp;years. In 1950, US 441 was extended from downtown [[Orlando, Florida|Orlando]] to [[Miami, Florida|Miami]] to connect with a stretch of [[U.S. Route 41 in Florida|US&nbsp;41]] which sported [[U.S. Route 94|US&nbsp;94]] road signs just a year earlier. In 1957, Florida's Turnpike (then called the Sunshine State Parkway) was completed in Dade (later [[Miami-Dade County, Florida|Miami-Dade]]) County, joining SR&nbsp;826 (which, at the time was Golden Glades Drive, an east–west street connecting [[U.S. Route 1 in Florida|US&nbsp;1]] along [[Biscayne Bay]] to [[U.S. Route 27 in Florida|US&nbsp;27]] inland). In 1958, construction of the north–south section of the Palmetto Bypass Expressway started, using SR&nbsp;826 with a 90-degree eastward curve (the western section of SR&nbsp;826 was to be abandoned). In 1959, construction of a segment of I-95, from Northwest 20th Street in Miami to [[Florida State Road 84|SR&nbsp;84]] in [[Fort Lauderdale, Florida|Fort Lauderdale]] was started, along with [[Interstate 195 (Florida)|I-195]] and the [[Florida State Road 112|Airport Expressway]] (SR 112) for access to [[Miami Beach, Florida|Miami Beach]] and [[Miami International Airport]]. In 1961, construction of the Palmetto Bypass Expressway (the name was unofficially shortened in the mid-1960s), the Airport Expressway (then called the 36th Street Tollway), and the segment of I-95 south of Northwest 95th Street in Dade County were completed.
 Anticipating increasing traffic to and from Dade County, FDOT broke ground on May 18, 1962, for the new Golden Glades Interchange.  The section of I-95 from Golden Glades to SR&nbsp;84 was completed in 1963;{{citation needed|date= August 2011}} the Golden Glades Interchange and I-95 south to Northwest 95th Street opened on June 9, 1964.<ref name=reopening/>
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 The interchange was also known as the [[Interama (exhibition)|Interama]] Interchange until it was renamed the Golden Glades Interchange in 1977.<ref>{{cite book |author= Staff |url= http://archive.flsenate.gov/data/Historical/Senate%20Journals/1970s/1977/14-153TO1644_15_77.PDF |title= Journal of the Senate |location= Tallahassee, FL |publisher= Florida State Senate |page= 155 |date= April 15, 1977}}</ref>
-[[Flyover (overpass)|Flyovers]] to a [[commuter train]] station and [[mass transit|bus terminal]] (in the 1970s) and elevated [[high-occupancy vehicle|HOV]] lanes (in 1995) have been added to it to accommodate the growing regional population, which has more than doubled since the interchange's opening.  There were plans in the 1980s to reconstruct the interchange, but they were dropped due to high construction costs.<ref>{{cite news |url= http://articles.sun-sentinel.com/2009-03-01/news/0902280176_1_i-95-interchange-turnpike |first= Michael |last= Turnbell |title= Palmetto Expressway to I-95 Link Too Costly |work= South Florida Sun Sentinel |date= March 1, 2009}}</ref> The Golden Glades has been expanded and worked on several times over the years and is seen as a bottleneck in traffic on all the roads it incorporates.
+[[Flyover (overpass)|Flyovers]] to a [[commuter train]] station and [[mass transit|bus terminal]] (in the 1970s) and elevated [[high-occupancy vehicle|HOV]] lanes (in 1995) have been added to it to accommodate the growing regional population, which has more than doubled since the interchange's opening.  There were plans in the 1980s to reconstruct the interchange, but they were dropped due to high construction costs.<ref>{{cite news |url= http://articles.sun-sentinel.com/2009-03-01/news/0902280176_1_i-95-interchange-turnpike |archive-url= https://web.archive.org/web/20160303234113/http://articles.sun-sentinel.com/2009-03-01/news/0902280176_1_i-95-interchange-turnpike |url-status= dead |archive-date= March 3, 2016 |first= Michael |last= Turnbell |title= Palmetto Expressway to I-95 Link Too Costly |work= South Florida Sun Sentinel |date= March 1, 2009}}</ref> The Golden Glades has been expanded and worked on several times over the years and is seen as a bottleneck in traffic on all the roads it incorporates.
-In 2017, the Florida Department of Transportation plans to widen the turnpike connector to I-95 to five lanes, including two lanes from the turnpike and three lanes from the eastbound Palmetto Expressway. Three lanes will exit to a relocated off-ramp to State Road 7 while the other three lanes will continue to I-95, which will get another lane between the Golden Glades and Northwest 151st Street. The entrance to the southbound express lanes south of the Golden Glades also will be moved 300 feet further south. In addition, the eastbound Palmetto ramp to I-95 will be widened to three lanes – two to southbound I-95 and one on a new direct ramp to northbound I-95.<ref name="goldengladesmakeover">{{cite news|url=http://articles.sun-sentinel.com/2011-10-05/news/fl-golden-glades-20111005_1_turnpike-ramp-golden-glades-interchange-lanes|title=Golden Glades Interchange needs a makeover|accessdate=2011-11-23}}</ref><ref>{{Cite news|url=http://articles.sun-sentinel.com/2013-09-28/news/fl-golden-glades-20130927_1_golden-glades-new-direct-ramp-palmetto-expressway|title=Golden Glades interchange to get a makeover|newspaper=tribunedigital-sunsentinel|access-date=2017-01-06}}</ref><ref>{{Cite news|url=http://articles.sun-sentinel.com/2014-05-05/news/fl-miami-traffic-turnbell-050514-20140505_1_golden-glades-two-lanes-three-lanes|title=Traffic reports: Find Miami road construction, crashes and traffic news.|newspaper=tribunedigital-sunsentinel|access-date=2017-01-06}}</ref>
+In 2017, the Florida Department of Transportation plans to widen the turnpike connector to I-95 to five lanes, including two lanes from the turnpike and three lanes from the eastbound Palmetto Expressway. Three lanes will exit to a relocated off-ramp to State Road 7 while the other three lanes will continue to I-95, which will get another lane between the Golden Glades and Northwest 151st Street. The entrance to the southbound express lanes south of the Golden Glades also will be moved 300 feet further south. In addition, the eastbound Palmetto ramp to I-95 will be widened to three lanes – two to southbound I-95 and one on a new direct ramp to northbound I-95.<ref name="goldengladesmakeover">{{cite news|url=http://articles.sun-sentinel.com/2011-10-05/news/fl-golden-glades-20111005_1_turnpike-ramp-golden-glades-interchange-lanes|title=Golden Glades Interchange needs a makeover|accessdate=2011-11-23|archive-date=2011-12-06|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20111206190920/http://articles.sun-sentinel.com/2011-10-05/news/fl-golden-glades-20111005_1_turnpike-ramp-golden-glades-interchange-lanes|url-status=dead}}</ref><ref>{{Cite news|url=http://articles.sun-sentinel.com/2013-09-28/news/fl-golden-glades-20130927_1_golden-glades-new-direct-ramp-palmetto-expressway|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20131007132410/http://articles.sun-sentinel.com/2013-09-28/news/fl-golden-glades-20130927_1_golden-glades-new-direct-ramp-palmetto-expressway|url-status=dead|archive-date=October 7, 2013|title=Golden Glades interchange to get a makeover|newspaper=tribunedigital-sunsentinel|access-date=2017-01-06}}</ref><ref>{{Cite news|url=http://articles.sun-sentinel.com/2014-05-05/news/fl-miami-traffic-turnbell-050514-20140505_1_golden-glades-two-lanes-three-lanes|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140724150216/http://articles.sun-sentinel.com/2014-05-05/news/fl-miami-traffic-turnbell-050514-20140505_1_golden-glades-two-lanes-three-lanes|url-status=dead|archive-date=July 24, 2014|title=Traffic reports: Find Miami road construction, crashes and traffic news.|newspaper=tribunedigital-sunsentinel|access-date=2017-01-06}}</ref>
-==See also Biggest  interchange ==
+==See also==
 *[[Transportation in South Florida]]
 *[[Dolphin–Palmetto Interchange]]
 *[[Midtown Interchange]]
+*[[Rainbow Interchange]]
 ==References==
 {{reflist}}
 {{North Miami Beach}}
+[[Category:Road interchanges in Florida]]
 [[Category:Interstate 95]]
 [[Category:U.S. Route 441]]
-[[Category:Road interchanges in the United States]]
 [[Category:North Miami Beach, Florida]]
 [[Category:Miami Gardens, Florida]]

v t e North Miami Beach, Florida
Areas	Eastern Shores
City agencies	Miami Gardens Police Department
Primary and secondary schools	Miami-Dade County Public Schools North Miami Beach Senior High School Allison Academy School
County agencies	Miami-Dade Public Library System
Landmarks	Fulford-by-the-Sea Monument Golden Glades Interchange The Mall at 163rd Street St. Bernard de Clairvaux Church