I took this photo, today, from my car. I know it will be familiar to many eyeonmiami readers: If you are trying to get the Performing Arsht Center or to the AA Arena from four lanes of 95 north, or four lanes of 95 south, in other words eight lanes of interstate funneling into four lanes of 395 east, this is the ONE lane exit to Biscayne Boulevard that serves BOTH venues.
What part of this picture did elected officials fail to understand, when they permitted BOTH venues?
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that is why they want a tunnel!
What if they had a concert, a ballet, a basketball game and a concert at either Bayfront or Bicentennial park?
You missed the fun part: the RETURN trip from downtown.
I was at an event at the Intercontinental this evening, and my ride was following the signs to 95. Construction has blocked the traditional route to the interstate, but we made a left onto NE 13 St. right at the Arsht Center, just as the sign indicated.
That was the end of the signs. My ride missed the turn and it wasn't until we crossed under 395 that we realized we'd missed a critical turn.
Eventually, we circled around and got back on from NE 2nd Avenue.
It sucks to live in a place where you have to rely on driving everywhere, doesn't it?
After basketball games I've tried going from AA Arena up Biscayne to 395. Couldn't do it. Police make you go around the entire city back onto 95.
Two city block drive turns into a nightmare of detours.
When you factor in the time it takes to get to the arena and the PAC, once you are OFF the highway-- it's a nightmare. Who's idea was this?
You'd have to pay ME to go there again.
If you think this is a mess, try driving south to MIA at 3:30 am to make an early international flight. The exit on 836 has been closed forever but the signs are non-existent or so close to the detour that no one can see them while you drive on the left lane to catch the former exit. Last week we were lost for 30 mins. until we followed a taxi assuming it was heading to the airport. Otherwise, we would still be driving around because the Perimeter Road is so dark that no one can read the few signs posted along that road, which haven't been updated with the continued street closures heading to the airport. Definitely Florida is a dysfunctional state!
Where is Stuck on the Palmetto when you need them?
I was wandering down there 2x this past weekend.
I can't wait for the 93 story towers to be built. Of course, the city will need to operate under the Saturday-Sunday schedule to accommodate all the traffic. (Got that? No work days allowed!)
It is nice to look at all the buildings when no one is downtown... All the angles and shapes and GLASS. You know what that area is going to be like after one good hurricane season?
Anyhow, I think that urban living is great...but you need walkable communities, parking for the urbanites and clean, safe, dependable public transportation.
Two Words:
Congestion Pricing
Good enough for I-95
Good enough for downtown
A tunnel???? Some guy at the top wrote that is why we need a tunnel. FYI, the tunnel is for cruise and cargo traffic going to the "Port of Miami" and it won't really put a dent on that traffic. The "tunnel" won't do a darn thing about the traffic involving people trying to get to either AA Arena, Bayside, Carnival Center, The two new museums, oh yeah, and the thousands of additional citzens we will have when and "if" the new mega condos are finished. PLEASE, enough about the tunnel. Gosh I hate all this waste of money spending when there are people living in downtown Miami who can't afford food or a decent place to live.
He may have been speaking of the plan to bury the highway in front of Halls. I think that was squashed. This was some time ago that they knocked it about. (In the county time frame, that project could have been squashed about 2 minutes before the other tunnel popped up!)
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