Florida State Road 953
Le Jeune Road (pronounced "Luh-JOO-n" Road), also West 42nd Avenue on the greater Miami grid plan, East 8th Avenue in Hialeah, and partly co-signed State Road 953, is a 16.3 miles (26.2 km) long north–south street in Miami-Dade County, Florida, and running a few miles west of central Miami.
The southern terminus of State Road 953 is an intersection with U.S. Route 1 (South Dixie Highway) in Coral Gables near the Village of Merrick Park lifestyle center, and the northern terminus of SR 953 is an intersection with Florida State Road 916 (North 135th Street), 0.6 miles (0.97 km) south of the northern end of LeJeune Road at the terminal of Opa-locka Airport.
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