ISBN: | 978-5-5082-1809-6 |
High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! State Road 869 is a 24.375-mile (39.228 km) long state road located in Broward County, Florida. The road acts as a de facto bypass of Fort Lauderdale and northern coastal Broward County, Florida, extending north from a junction of Interstate 75 (SR 93), Interstate 595 (SR 862) in Sunrise, to Coral Springs before heading eastward towards Florida`s Turnpike and intersecting Interstate 95 before terminating at Southwest 6th Avenue in Deerfield Beach. The 20.763-mile (33.415 km) section west of the Turnpike is known as the Sawgrass Expressway, a six-lane, limited-access toll road; the section east of the Turnpike is a surface street known as Southwest 10th Street. The expressway opened in 1986 and was added to Florida`s Turnpike Enterprise in 1990. The entire tollway section is operated on an open-road tolling system for SunPass users. The at-grade section east of the Turnpike is maintained by FDOT.