page_title: Tamiami Trail
section_title: After US 94
hierarchical_section_title: Tamiami Trail / History / After US 94
caption_attribution_description: Shield for northbound U.S. Route 41 (Tamiami Trail) past the intersection with Florida State Road 72 (Stickney Point Road) in Gulf Gate Estates
context_page_description: The Tamiami Trail is the southernmost 275 miles of U.S. Highway 41 from Florida State Road 60 in Tampa to US 1 in Miami. A portion of the road also has the hidden designation of State Road 90.
  The 163-mile north–south section extends to Naples, whereupon it becomes an east–west road crossing the Everglades. It becomes Southwest 8th Street in Miami-Dade County, famous as Calle Ocho in the Little Havana section of Miami, before ending east of Miami Avenue as Southeast 8th Street at Brickell Avenue in Brickell, Downtown Miami.
context_section_description: In the 1950s, the newly configured US 41 was extended eastward and northward, first to downtown Miami along US 1 in 1950, then to Miami Beach along US 1 and SR A1A in 1953. In 1965, US 41 was rerouted as a bypass along unsigned SR 45A around Venice Gardens, while Business US 41 signs grace the three-mile-long (4.8 km) former alignment (which is still named Tamiami Trail).
  This configuration of US 41 south of Tampa remained intact until the U.S. Highway was truncated to US 1 and Southwest Eighth Street in Miami in 2001—the historic eastern terminus of US 94, former SR 27, and current SR 90 (westbound US 41 and SR 90 now begin one block to the north, on Southwest Seventh Street, as the easternmost 2.7 miles (4.3 km) of the U.S. Highway now lie along a one-way pair).
  While US 41 and SR 90 have not significantly changed since the 1960s (aside from the widening to the east of SR 997 in Miami-Dade County in the 1970s and in 2002-2005), its importance to motorists of southeastern Florida has changed since the opening of Alligator Alley to the north in 1968.  Since then, traffic on the Tamiami Trail across the Everglades has lessened significantly, while urban sections of the road are now often congested.
  In 1968, the Dade County Port Authority began construction on what was to become the world's largest airport.  The Miami Jetport was located 36 miles (58 km) west of Miami, just across the Collier County line.  It was to be a six runway supersonic airport.  The project would also transform the Tamiami Trail into a multi-lane expressway.  Conservationists were worried about the impact an airport that size would have on the environment of the Everglades and Big Cypress.  After several court hearings, a ban was placed upon further development.  The widening of Tamiami Trail as a part of the Jetport had been stopped.  One runway had already been completed; so the runway was allowed to be used as a flight training center.  The runway remains today as a part of the Dade-Collier Training and Transition Airport.
  Also in 1968, construction of an extension of Interstate 75 (I-75) south from Tampa to Miami was started, with an eye toward routing the freeway along an upgraded Tamiami Trail from Naples to a soon-to-be completed SR 836 whereupon it would continue on the east–west highway to its intended terminus at an interchange with I-95.  Plans for the I-75 extension changed for two reasons: Alligator Alley needed upgrading, as the then-narrow toll road was dangerous to both motorists and wildlife (most notably the Florida panther) alike, and SR 836, with its left exits and narrow lanes, was not being built to Interstate Highway standards.  As a result, construction for a rerouted I-75 in southern Florida began in 1974, now with I-75 using Alligator Alley instead of US 41 to cross the peninsula.  The configured Interstate would not be completed for another 19 years.
  Since then, the Tamiami Trail has been designated a National Scenic Byway by the United States Department of Transportation for its unique scenery in the Everglades and the Big Cypress National Preserve.
caption: Tamiami Trail (US 41) northbound past SR 72 in Gulf Gate Estates
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