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A bypass is a road or highway that avoids or "bypasses" a built-up area, town, or village, to let through traffic flow without interference from local traffic, to reduce congestion in the built-up area , to improve road safety and as replacement for obsolete roads that are no longer in use as a result of devastating natural disasters (earthquakes, tsunamis, landslides, volcanic eruptions). A bypass specifically designated for trucks may be called a truck route .

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50-653: State Road 826 ( SR 826 ) is a bypass route around the greater Miami area, traveling approximately 30 miles (48 km) in a northeasterly arc from U.S. Route 1 (US 1) in Pinecrest to its terminus at State Road A1A in Sunny Isles Beach . Between its southern terminus and the Golden Glades Interchange , State Road 826 is known as the Palmetto Expressway , a heavily traveled freeway with portions of

100-492: A conflict between those who support a bypass to reduce congestion in a built-up area and/or as replacement for roads that became obsolete and inactive because devastating natural disasters — those who oppose the development of (often rural) undeveloped land. A city may also oppose the project, because of the potential reduction in city core. In Ontario , examples include the Donald Cousens Parkway (formerly named

150-482: A mile (1.6 km) north of US 1, is with Kendall Drive (SR 94), which provides access to the mall. SR 826 continues north, crossing under the Snapper Creek Expressway (SR 878) without an interchange before meeting Sunset Drive (SR 986) at a diamond interchange . It then leaves Kendall, continuing into Glenvar Heights with an interchange with Southwest 56th Street/Miller Drive, which provides access to

200-502: A signalised intersection with Northwest 2nd Avenue, marking the end of SR 826's expressway. State Road 826 heads east from the Golden Glades Interchange as Northwest 167th Street, a six-laned surface road, along the boundary between Golden Glades and North Miami Beach . Through here, the road is also known as North Miami Beach Boulevard, lined with shops, offices, hotels and other commercial services. Two blocks after leaving

250-528: A two-lane road (Golden Glades Drive, Northwest 167th Street) connecting US 27 to US 441 in the vicinity of the Golden Glades Interchange. In 1956, plans were unveiled for several expressways throughout Dade County . The routes proposed were a North-South Expressway (now part of I-95 ), an East-West Expressway (now the Dolphin Expressway ), a 36th Street Expressway (now the Airport Expressway ),

300-577: Is a Metrorail rapid transit station in unincorporated Miami-Dade County, Florida (with a Miami address), United States, just near the town of Medley . It is the current northern terminus of the Metrorail system. This station is located near the intersection of Northwest 77th Street and 79 Avenue, opening to service May 30, 2003. It is adjacent to the Palmetto Expressway (SR 826) (its namesake ), providing convenience to west Miami-Dade and Broward commuters traveling into Downtown Miami . The station

350-489: Is a series of tunnels between Central and Causeway Bay . Malaysia also contain several bypasses such as Rawang Bypass , Kajang Bypass , Bidor Bypass and Kuala Terengganu Bypass . Bypass roads (or in other cases "diversion roads") in the Philippines are generally considered on national highways passing through a densely populated city or municipality. Local governments usually promote construction of bypasses where

400-499: Is also sometimes used to refer to a short temporary roadway built to bypass a construction site or other temporary obstruction. The U.S. Manual on Uniform Traffic Control Devices uses the term "diversion". In Brazil the widest and busiest bypasses are located in the state of São Paulo, and many of them intersect and merge around large cities to form ring-like systems. Most notably the Rodoanel Mário Covas , which encircles

450-573: Is in Miami-Dade County . All exits are unnumbered. Bypass route If there are no strong land use controls, buildings are often built in town along a bypass, converting it into an ordinary town road, and the bypass may eventually become as congested as the local streets it was intended to avoid. Many businesses are often built there for ease of access, while homes are often avoided for noise and pollution reasons. Bypass routes are often on new land where no road originally existed. This creates

500-762: Is measured by the Florida Department of Transportation. The busiest sections of SR 826 are in the vicinity of the Miami International Airport and the nearby industrial area to its west, with over 200,000 daily vehicle movements counted between the Dolphin Expressway at Fontainebleau and the Northwest 122nd Street / West 68th Street exit in Hialeah , peaking in the vicinity of SR 934 in Medley with over 250,000 vehicle movements each day. Traffic volumes decrease to

550-1057: The East Kowloon Corridor , the West Kowloon Corridor , and the Lung Cheung and Ching Cheung Roads . Later ones are named directly as bypasses, such as Kwun Tong Bypass , Hung Hom Bypass , and the Ma On Shan Bypass . Other bypasses include the Tai Po Section of the Tolo Highway , the section within the Tuen Mun New Town of the Tuen Mun Road , the Yuen Long Highway , and the West Kowloon Highway . The Central-Wan Chai Bypass , which costs HK$ 28.1 billion,

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600-484: The Golden Glades Interchange . SR 826 takes a convoluted path through the Golden Glades Interchange. It first meets the connector ramps between Florida's Turnpike and Interstate 95 (I-95), allowing access from northbound SR 826 to I-95 southbound as well as US 441 / SR 9 southbound, and from the Turnpike southbound and I-95 northbound to southbound SR 826. After turning to the northeast, SR 826 moves off its mainline at

650-475: The Gratigny Parkway (SR 924) and SR 916 . The Palmetto Expressway goes into Miami Lakes, interchanges with Northwest 154 Street, then turns through 90 degrees to the east at a point known as "The Big Curve". The road then proceeds straight east, forming the boundary between Miami Lakes and Country Club , soon interchanging with Northwest 67th Avenue. At the next exit, Red Road (SR 823), the expressway forms

700-589: The Homestead Extension of Florida's Turnpike was opened to traffic four miles (6.4 km) to the west of the Palmetto to reduce the traffic demands on Miami's original bypass. The Florida Department of Transportation recently completed a project on a 16.7-mile-long (26.9 km) section of the Palmetto Expressway from the southern terminus to just north of the Northwest 154th Street interchange, widening

750-583: The Mall at 163rd Street on its left, continuing on as a shopping strip for another 1.25 miles (2.01 km) where it meets the northern terminus of SR 909 at the West Dixie Highway. One block later, after crossing the Florida East Coast Railway tracks, SR 826 meets US 1 once more at Biscayne Boulevard. To the east of US 1, SR 826's character changes as it passes through mangroves and crosses

800-625: The Oleta River , having expanded to eight lanes. With North Miami Beach lying to the north and North Miami to the south of the road, SR 826 passes between more mangroves to its south and more businesses to the north as it approaches the Intracoastal Waterway . Here, the road splits into separate eastbound and westbound streets before it crosses the Waterway over a drawbridge in each direction, and enters Sunny Isles Beach . Apartment buildings line

850-685: The Seaboard Coast Line railroad tracks for about 10 miles (16 km). The route would then turn south at Southwest 117th Avenue and follow it into US 1. While the alternate route plan ultimately failed, eventually the Don Shula Expressway , a northeast–southwest expressway, was built along the railroad tracks in the 1970s. In 1958, the State Road Department started construction on the bypass expressway under their authority. A north–south section along West 77th Avenue (Palmetto Road)

900-554: The St. Joseph Valley Parkway ), and Interstate 75 bypassing Tampa and St. Petersburg, Florida . These bypasses usually carry mainline routes rather than auxiliary "bypass" routes. The first bypass route in the United States was completed in 1958 as Alabama State Route 210 (Ross Clark Circle) in Dothan, Alabama . In the United States, the term shoofly – a borrowing from railroad jargon –

950-545: The University of Miami . About half a mile (0.8 km) later, the Don Shula Expressway (SR 874) merges with the Palmetto Expressway at its northern terminus, with a southbound exit and a northbound entrance point. Between this interchange and the next (at Bird Road /SR 976), SR 826 forms the border between Glenvar Heights and Olympia Heights ; past it, the expressway marks the boundary between Westchester and Coral Terrace . After an exit with Southwest 24th Street/ Coral Way ,

1000-564: The Biscayne Bay Malecon (a proposed bridge from Brickell to Elliot Key and North Key Largo, never built), a Dixie Expressway (proposed; most was never built, a portion became I-95 ), and the Palmetto Road Expressway. In 1957, Dade County Commissioner Ralph Fossey proposed an alternative alignment of the Palmetto Expressway. The new alignment would begin at Miller Road (Southwest 56th Street) and then turn southwesterly to follow

1050-738: The Markham Bypass from 2004 to 2006) and the Box Grove Bypass in the city of Markham ; and in Toronto a section of Highway 401 was called the Toronto Bypass in the 1950s when the highway was built as a bypass of Highway 2 , Ontario Highway 2A which was built to bypass Highway 2 between Toronto and Newcastle , and the Caledonia Bypass, a section of Highway 6 in Caledonia. In Nova Scotia ,

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1100-570: The Miami Gardens area. East of the interchange, where SR 826 becomes a surface road, the traffic volumes are more than halved in comparison to SR 826's expressway sections, with a recorded figure of 64,500 daily vehicle movements. This figure steadily decreases eastwards along SR 826, with only 46,000 daily vehicle movements recorded near its eastern terminus with SR A1A in Sunny Isles Beach. State Road 826's designation originally applied to

1150-465: The Palmetto Expressway between West Flagler Street and Northwest 154th Street, which will connect with new express lanes on Interstate 75. This will result in four regular and two express lanes, similar to 95 express. These express lanes were completed in 2019. The entire route is in Miami-Dade County . All exits are unnumbered. Express lanes are all located in Miami-Dade County. The entire route

1200-466: The Palmetto Expressway was first opened, it went through tracts of woodland and farmland which have since been urbanized. Originally there were four at-grade intersections in Hialeah and Miami Lakes which were either transformed into full interchanges or blocked off in the 1970s. In addition, increasing traffic loads on the Palmetto prompted plans for extending Florida's Turnpike to "bypass the bypass." In 1974,

1250-424: The United States, primary routes are designated with a one- or two-digit number , while bypasses and loops are generally designated with a three-digit number beginning with an even digit . However, there are many exceptions to this convention, where routes with three-digit numbers serve the main route through town while the routes with one- or two-digit numbers serve as the bypass. A few such examples can be found in

1300-509: The boundary between an unincorporated section of Miami-Dade County and Miami Gardens , with the expressway entering the city proper at the next exit, Northwest 47th Avenue. The expressway then passes to the north of Florida Memorial University before the Northwest 37th Avenue exit, where it creates the northern border of St. Thomas University 's campus. Still in Miami Gardens, SR 826 then has exits with Northwest 27th Avenue (SR 817), Northwest 17th Avenue and Northwest 12th Avenue before reaching

1350-492: The city of São Paulo and passes through other cities in the metropolitan area, is the largest project of such type with a planned total length of 180 km upon completion. It is divided into sections and connected to major highways and while not being a toll road itself, accesses to other motorways are often placed through toll booths. Hong Kong contains several bypasses. The first are the Island Eastern Corridor ,

1400-527: The east, and Ludlam Road (westbound) and Miami Lakes Drive (eastbound) on the west. They carry the hidden designation of State Road 826F . SR 826 is signed east–west north of Miami, west of Miami it is signed north–south. State Road 826 begins at an interchange with US 1 in Pinecrest, just south of the Dadeland Mall , and heads north as the Palmetto Expressway into Kendall . The first interchange, less than

1450-448: The existing highway becomes heavily congested. Bypasses are common in rural municipalities to deter through traffic from entering the poblacion or town centre. Careful planning is considered when planning a bypass through a community to ensure the original route is downgraded to local access. Control of access to properties is taken in account to avoid uncontrolled land development. Palmetto (Metrorail station) Palmetto station

1500-543: The expressway meets the Tamiami Trail ( US 41 ), providing access to Florida International University . This interchange also marks the Tamiami Trail's entrance into incorporated Miami, the boundary of which lies on the eastern side of the expressway. North of the Tamiami Trail interchange, the Palmetto Expressway forms the eastern boundary of Fontainebleau as it continues north to an exit with Flagler Street (SR 968),

1550-493: The highway by two lanes (from eight lanes to ten and ten lanes to twelve) and improving the interchanges. Reconstruction of the Miller Drive, Bird Road and Don Shula Expressway interchanges began in 2008, and was completed around 2012. The Dolphin-Palmetto Interchange construction began on November 30, 2009, and was completed in late 2016. The Florida Department of Transportation is in the process of adding express lanes on

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1600-457: The interchange with I-75 and the Gratigny Parkway , with a reported drop of approximately 60,000 daily vehicle movements north of the interchange. As the Palmetto Expressway rounds the Big Curve and heads eastwards, the traffic volume steadily increases to a maximum of 164,000 daily vehicle movements just prior to the Golden Glades Interchange as it collects traffic from the north–south routes in

1650-596: The interchange, the road crosses North Miami Avenue , the longitudinal baseline for Miami-Dade County; thus, the road becomes Northeast 167th Street once it passes this point. Approximately 0.75 miles (1.21 km) later, SR 826 intersects with Northeast 6th Avenue (SR 915). Two blocks later, at Northeast 8th Avenue, North Miami Beach Boulevard starts to swing to the southeast, leaving Northeast 167th Street's orientation, reaching Northeast 163rd street approximately 0.6 miles (0.97 km) later at Northeast 12th Avenue, and taking its eastbound orientation. It immediately passes

1700-458: The metropolitan areas of Des Moines, Iowa ( Interstate 235 goes through downtown, while Interstate 35 and Interstate 80 bypass downtown), Omaha, Nebraska ( Interstate 480 traverses the downtown area , while Interstate 80 is one of the bypasses), and Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania (the city is served by Interstate 279 and Interstate 376 , while Interstate 70 , Interstate 76 , and Interstate 79 all bypass city limits). Another meaning of

1750-414: The next exit onto the mainline of the Turnpike which passes over it; SR 826's former mainline, meanwhile, continues on as an at-grade extension of Northwest 7th Avenue to US 441 northbound. Traffic moving from eastbound SR 826 to the northbound Turnpike must pass through an unsignalised intersection here. Headed back southeast, SR 826 first crosses over the former Seaboard Coast Line railroad, begins to form

1800-725: The northern boundary of Golden Glades , then passes under the I-95's express lanes, meeting the onramp between I-95 southbound and the Turnpike northbound, and the onramp between southbound US 441 and eastbound SR 826. It then passes over Interstate 95 proper, which lies between the southbound and northbound carriageways of US 441, as it swings back to the northeast and then to the east once more. Here it meets its last three ramps, one which allows access from US 441 and I-95 northbound to eastbound SR 826, another from westbound SR 826 to US 441 and I-95 southbound, and from westbound SR 826 to northbound US 441. SR 826 resumes its east–west orientation once more at

1850-413: The north–south baseline for Miami-Dade County roads. The freeway then has an interchange with the Dolphin Expressway (SR 836) just south of Doral , creating access to Miami International Airport . This interchange is currently being improved due to the current configuration causing severe congestion. Now forming Doral's eastern boundary, SR 826 continues north to Northwest 25th Street, which connects to

1900-481: The old bypass route of U.S. Route 71 to the east of Kansas City, Missouri was decommissioned as Interstate 435 supplanted it; the remainder that existed as suburban surface route became Missouri Route 291 . Around St. Louis, Missouri , what had been U.S. Route 50 Bypass was absorbed into a diversion of U.S. Route 50 from Interstate 44 and Interstate 64 . In the Interstate Highway System in

1950-426: The opening of Florida's Turnpike and six months before the opening of Dade County's second expressway, the Airport Expressway (SR 112). The completion of the Palmetto Expressway (the "Bypass" faded from public usage in the 1960s) and the building of Interstate 95 were the impetus of the construction of the massive Golden Glades Interchange involving Florida's Turnpike, US 441 , Interstate 95, and SR 9 . When

2000-500: The outside of the two road-halves, with some commercial services in the middle, as it continues on for another 0.36 miles (0.58 km) to SR 826's northern terminus at Collins Avenue ( SR A1A ), one block shy of the Atlantic Ocean. A flyover allows traffic on northbound SR A1A to move onto westbound SR 826 without having to stop twice for eastbound SR 826 traffic and to cross SR A1A. The traffic volume along SR 826's entire length

2050-433: The road carrying in excess of 250,000 vehicles a day . Unlike many of the other non-interstate freeways in Miami-Dade County , the Palmetto Expressway is untolled. East of the interchange, State Road 826 is a surface road connecting North Miami and North Miami Beach to Sunny Isles Beach over the Intracoastal Waterway . A series of state-maintained frontage roads flank the freeway portion between Northwest 17th Avenue on

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2100-829: The section of Highway 104 between Thomson Station and Masstown is colloquially named the Cobequid Pass ; this name is for a section of road that bypasses the Wentworth Valley by crossing the Cobequid Mountains . The idea of bypasses predates the use of motor vehicles. The first (northern) London bypass, the present Marylebone Road between Paddington and Islington , was started in 1756. Bypasses can take many years to gain planning approval and funding. Many towns and villages have been campaigning for bypasses for over 30 years e.g. Banwell in North Somerset . There

2150-464: The south of the Dolphin Expressway, particularly south of the Don Shula Expressway merge; however, unlike the rest of SR 826 (including its surface road portion), much of its peak traffic flow is uni-directional. Indeed, at the Palmetto Expressway's southern end, between US 1 and Kendall Drive , traffic moves almost exclusively in the peak direction. Northwards, traffic volumes decrease after

2200-469: The southern end of Hialeah Gardens and Hialeah . It then enters Hialeah proper just after an interchange with Northwest 103rd Street (SR 932), which allows access to the Westland Mall . An exit with Northwest 122nd Street then follows. At the boundary between Hialeah and Miami Lakes , SR 826 reaches an interchange with the national southern terminus of Interstate 75 (I-75) and the western termini of

2250-447: The term bypass route (usually simply called a bypass ) is a highway that was constructed to bypass an area that is often congested with traffic. This includes Interstate Highway beltways and U.S. Highways constructed to circumvent downtown areas. Examples of these are U.S. Route 60 bypassing Williamsburg, Virginia , Interstate 285 bypassing Downtown Atlanta , U.S. Route 20 / U.S. Route 31 bypassing metro South Bend, Indiana (on

2300-590: The town, but the designation was changed to "bypass" in 1959 by AASHTO . However, many "truck" routes remain where the mainline of the highway is prohibited for trucks. In a few cases, both a bypass and a business route exist, each with auxiliary signs (e.g. U.S. Route 60 in Lexington, Kentucky ). Bypass routes are less common than business routes. Many of those that existed before the era of Interstate Highways have lost their old designations. For example, in Missouri ,

2350-609: The western end of the airport, followed by an exit with Doral Boulevard (SR 948) that links to the Doral Golf Resort & Spa , and then an exit with Northwest 58th Street. After a brief crossing through unincorporated Miami-Dade County, the expressway reaches an interchange with the Hialeah Expressway (SR 934) in Medley adjacent to the Palmetto Metrorail station, followed by a diagonal interchange with US 27 at

2400-451: Was built to connect US 1 in Pinecrest to an improved Golden Glades Drive (complete with 90 degree eastward turn) and the portion of Northwest 167th Street west of the curve would be abandoned. Many land owners were forced to sell their property to the county to make way for the construction of the expressway. The Palmetto Expressway was opened in June 1961 at the cost of $ 30 million, four years after

2450-697: Was chosen in reference to the First Battle of Newbury of 1643 and the Second Battle of Newbury of 1644, both of which took place close to the town during the English Civil War . In the United States , bypass routes are a type of special route used on an alternative routing of a highway around a town when the main route of the highway goes through the town. The original designation of these routes were "truck routes" to divert through truck traffic away from

2500-626: Was large-scale protest during construction of the Newbury bypass —officially known as the Winchester–Preston Trunk Road (A34) (Newbury Bypass)—a 9-mile (14 km) stretch of dual carriageway which bypasses the town of Newbury in Berkshire , England . The protest was popularly known as the Third Battle of Newbury , a name which was also adopted by one of the main protest groups. The name

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