State Road 825, locally known as Southwest 137th Avenue and Lindgren Road, is a 2.57 mi (4.14 km) north–south road, extending from the entrance of the Kendall-Tamiami Executive Airport

Kendall-Tamiami Executive Airport

Kendall-Tamiami Executive Airport is a public airport located in unincorporated Miami-Dade County, Florida, United States, 13 miles southwest of Downtown Miami....

 north to State Road 94.

Route description

State Road 825 begins at the intersection of Southwest 137th Avenue and Southwest 128th Street, near the entrance of the Kendall-Tamiami Executive Airport. SR 825 heads north, with the airport to the west and commercial business to the east of the road. At Southwest 120th Street, SR 825 exits the airport property, and drives through residential housing for most of the rest of the route. Prior to the 1990's, most of this route was surrounded by farmland. It then intersects Southwest 104th Street, the former State Road 990

Florida State Road 990

A long east–west road near Kendall, State Road 990 currently extends from an interchange between the Don Shula Expressway and West 107th Avenue to South Dixie Highway...

, continuing north through residential housing. At Southwest 90th Street, commercial businesses take over the landscape of SR 825 for the last two blocks until it terminates at the intersection of State Road 94, the only state road that SR 825 intersects.

It is misnumbered: in Band 9, it lies further west than SR 985

State Road 985 (Florida)

State Road 985, locally known as West 107th Avenue, FIU Avenue, and Avenue of the Americas, is a -long north–south street in western Miami-Dade County, Florida, serving the communities of Kendall, University Park, Sweetwater, and Doral....

 (Southwest 107th Avenue north of SR 94) and SR 989

State Road 989 (Florida)

Locally known as Allapattah Road and South 112th Avenue, State Road 989 is a north–south four lane undivided highway in southern Miami-Dade County, Florida between Homestead Air Reserve Base and Cutler Bay...

 (Southwest 112th Avenue south of U.S. Route 1) and east of SR 997

State Road 997 (Florida)

State Road 997, also known as Krome Avenue and West 177 Avenue is a north–south state highway in western Miami-Dade County, Florida. It runs from U.S. Route 1 just south of Florida City north across U.S. Route 41 to U.S. Route 27 near Opa-locka West Airport, just south of the Broward...

 (Krome Avenue). Its location would normally merit a designation of State Road 993 in the current grid method of numbering Florida State Roads instead.

History

The Florida Department of Transportation

Florida Department of Transportation

The Florida Department of Transportation is a decentralized agency charged with the establishment, maintenance, and regulation of public transportation in the state of Florida. The department was formed in 1969. It absorbed the powers of the Florida State Road Department...

 added the route in the early 1980s in a campaign to increase access to the county's commercial airports.

Future

With the continuing population growth of western Miami-Dade County and the current construction of the western extension of the Dolphin Expressway

State Road 836 (Florida)

State Road 836, locally known as the Dolphin Expressway, is a 19-mile-long six-lane divided expressway, with the westernmost 14 miles being a tollway, currently extending from just north of the intersection of Southwest 137th Avenue and U.S...

 (first to Northwest 137th Avenue five miles (8 km) to the north, then to Southwest 136th Street near Southwest 147th Avenue), the importance of SR 825 as a commercial and commuter highway

Commuting

Commuting is regular travel between one's place of residence and place of work or full time study. It sometimes refers to any regular or often repeated traveling between locations when not work related.- History :...

 is expected to continue to increase in the coming years.

Major junctions

The entire route is located in Kendall

Kendall, Florida

Kendall is a suburban neighborhood of metropolitan Miami, Florida, United States. As of the 2000 census, the area had a total population of 75,226....

, Miami-Dade County

Miami-Dade County, Florida

Miami-Dade County is a county located in the southeastern part of the state of Florida. As of 2010 U.S. Census, the county had a population of 2,496,435, making it the most populous county in Florida and the eighth-most populous county in the United States...

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Mile	Destination	Notes
0.00	Southwest 128th Street	Southern terminus
2.57		Northern terminus