Route Description
The highway begins just north of the intersection of Southwest 137th Avenue and U.S. Route 41 (SR 90) in Tamiami, as a SunPass only section of the expressway, built in 2007 and accessible only to motorists with SunPass transponders. The expressway heads east towards the Homestead Extension of the Turnpike, and then passes through the first of two toll barriers. It then intersects with the Palmetto Expressway (SR 826), and passes through the southern end of the Miami International Airport. With the failure of the Florida Department of Transportation to build either the previously-planned airport spur or the proposed LeJeune Road Expressway to give additional access to the airport, Miami-Dade County's sole complete east–west throughway is now often congested, most commonly in the stretch between the Palmetto Expressway (SR 826) and LeJeune Road (SR 953). East of the interchange with the airport at LeJeune Road, eastbound lanes pass through a second toll barrier just west of downtown. The highway has two more interchanges in the fringes of downtown before intersecting with I-95 at the Midtown Interchange and becoming a free road and unsigned as Interstate 395 goes into downtown Miami.
I-395 heads east as an elevated, six-lane expressway into downtown Miami. The feeder lanes from I-95 to eastbound I-395 make up a separate three lane ramp to the right of I-395, with the exit to US 1/US 41 being a left exit from the I-395 lanes and a right exit from the I-95 feeder lanes. The feeder lanes then merge into three lanes, heading east towards the MacArthur Causeway, with I-395 and SR 836 terminating just east of an entrance ramp with US 1 (SR 5)/US 41, and continuing as SR A1A.
Until July 1, 2007, the toll for eastbound automobiles was $1.25 ($1.00 for motorists with SunPass), paid at a toll booth between Northwest 22nd and Northwest 17th Avenues (toll is not collected from westbound traffic). In conjunction with the completion of the new three-mile-long extension west of the Turnpike, tolls of $1.00 (75 cents for motorists with SunPass) are now collected from traffic in both directions west of SR 973 (Northwest 87th Avenue/Galloway Road). Although the new toll was originally stated to be only for the extension, motorists going to the Florida Turnpike or Northwest 107th Avenue also have to pay. Thus, the total toll for eastbound traffic traveling along the expressway from the Turnpike to Interstate 95 is now $2.25 (or $1.75 for motorists with SunPass). Traffic traveling the new SunPass-only extension to/from Northwest 137th Avenue pays an additional 25 cents.
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