State Road 916, locally known as Northwest 138th Street, West 84th Street, Northwest 135th Street, Opa-Locka Boulevard, Northeast 135th Street, and Natural Bridge Road is an east–west highway crossing northern Miami-Dade County, Florida

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...

. Its western terminus is at an interchange with Interstate 75 (SR 93), the Palmetto Expressway

State Road 826 (Florida)

State Road 826, also known as the Palmetto Expressway, is a bypass route around the greater Miami area, extending from U.S. Route 1 in Pinecrest, going through the inner Miami suburbs in a north-east semicircle to the Golden Glades Interchange, reverting to a surface street to its terminus at...

 (SR 826), and the Gratigny Parkway

State Road 924 (Florida)

State Road 924 is a east–west highway connecting Interstate 75 and the Palmetto Expressway in Hialeah and SR 909 in North Miami...

 (SR 924) on the boundary between Hialeah

Hialeah, Florida

Hialeah is a city in Miami-Dade County, Florida, United States. As of the 2000 census, the city population was 226,419. As of 2009, the population estimate by the U. S...

 and Miami Lakes

Miami Lakes, Florida

Miami Lakes is a Miami suburban incorporated town and former census-designated place in Miami-Dade County, Florida, United States. The population was 22,676 at the 2000 census. As of 2004, the population recorded by the U.S...

. Motorists traveling eastward along SR 916 drive alongside Opa-locka Airport

Opa-locka Airport

Opa-locka Airport , also known as Opa-locka Executive Airport, is a general aviation airport and joint civil-military airfield 10 miles north of Downtown Miami, primarily in metropolitan Miami, Florida, United States, with a portion within the city proper of Opa-locka.The airport's control tower...

 and through the cities of Opa-locka

Opa-locka, Florida

Opa-locka is a city located in Miami-Dade County, Florida, United States. As of the mid decade census, the population was 15,376 as recorded by the U.S. Census Bureau....

 (on a one-way pair

One-way pair

A one-way pair, one-way couple, or just couplet is a pair of parallel, usually one-way streets that carry opposite directions of a signed route or major traffic flow, or sometimes opposite directions of a bus or streetcar route....

) and North Miami

North Miami, Florida

North Miami is a suburban city located in northeast Miami-Dade County, Florida, United States, about north of Miami. The city lies on Biscayne Bay and hosts the Biscayne Bay Campus of Florida International University, and the North Miami campus of Johnson & Wales University...

 before reaching Biscayne Boulevard (U.S. Route 1/SR 5

State Road 5 (Florida)

State Road 5 is a mostly-unsigned state highway in the state of Florida. It is mainly signed as U.S. Route 1 from its south end in Key West, Florida to Jacksonville, Florida, and U.S. Route 17 from Jacksonville to the Georgia state line at the Saint Marys River. U.S...

).

As with SR 976

State Road 976 (Florida)

State Road 976, locally known as Bird Road, is a commercially important route extending westward from U.S. Route 1 in Miami to the Homestead Extension of Florida's Turnpike in Westwood Lakes, Florida...

 to the southwest, there is an ambiguity as to the location of the eastern terminus of SR 916. 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...

 maps and literature indicate that SR 916 terminates at its intersection with Biscayne Boulevard (giving SR 916 a length of 9.7 miles); however, signs erected by FDOT near the intersection indicate otherwise. People on Biscayne Boulevard (traveling in either direction) see trailblazer signs for SR 916 EAST and WEST; people going eastward on Northeast 135th Street see an SR 916 reassurance sign less than a half block from Biscayne Boulevard, indicating that the State Road extends to some point on the street that ends in a cul-de-sac

Cul-de-sac

A cul-de-sac is a word of French origin referring to a dead end, close, no through road or court meaning dead-end street with only one inlet/outlet...

 a mile to the east.

In addition to being an access to Opa-locka Airport, the divided highway passes through a mixture of suburban residential neighborhoods and by an industrial park

Industrial park

An industrial park is an area zoned and planned for the purpose of industrial development...

.

The significance of SR 916 to Miami-Dade County has diminished since the opening of the Gratigny Parkway

State Road 924 (Florida)

State Road 924 is a east–west highway connecting Interstate 75 and the Palmetto Expressway in Hialeah and SR 909 in North Miami...

 in 1992, but it remains a major trans-county throughway.