History
While it appears that SR 973 is primarily a bypass of the heavily-congested Palmetto Expressway, much of Galloway Road actually predates it, having been laid (but not necessarily paved) in the 1940s and 1950s. Galloway Road was part of a collection of Dade (now Miami-Dade) County streets that the Florida Department of Transportation added to its maintenance list in 1980: it was originally assigned the State Road 915 designation, but in 1983, the number was changed to SR 973 as part of a statewide renumbering.
In 2009, the Federal Highway Administration reported that the road was "unsafe" for travel and had recently caused multiple deaths from accidents on State Road 973.
Read more about this topic: Florida State Road 973
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