Flagler Street, partly co-signed State Road 968, is a 12.4-mile (20.0 km) main east–west road in Miami. Along with the north–south Miami Avenue, Flagler Street is the latitudinal baseline that divides all the streets on the Miami-Dade County grid plan as north or south streets. Flagler Street is named after industrialist Henry Flagler and serves as a major commercial east–west highway through central Miami-Dade County, with a mixture of residential neighborhoods (featuring apartment complexes) and strip malls, the commercial presence increasing as SR 968 approaches downtown Miami. The current western terminus of SR 968 is an intersection with Galloway Road (SR 973/West 87th Avenue). The eastern terminus of SR 968 is Biscayne Boulevard (US 1/SR 5).
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