Traffic has been a major theme at Eye On Miami since we started this blog in 2007. We tend to get to the heart of it, much faster than the Miami Herald.
Read this post from Nov. 24, 2014. We had more than thirty comments on that post; more than most here and at the Herald. (And we used a screen shot from Google Maps, a better one than the Herald used today!) As for more EOM views of traffic, type the word "traffic" in the search bar for an EOM compilation and see why the Miami Herald is late to the traffic jam.
Read this post from Nov. 24, 2014. We had more than thirty comments on that post; more than most here and at the Herald. (And we used a screen shot from Google Maps, a better one than the Herald used today!) As for more EOM views of traffic, type the word "traffic" in the search bar for an EOM compilation and see why the Miami Herald is late to the traffic jam.
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When was the last time the Miami Herald publisher spoke out against overdevelopment, the cause of too much traffic?
Moratorium. Elected officials should have put moratoriums in place. Way too much overdevelopment.
Traffic is the single most critical variable hanging over Miami Dade's real estate values, quality of life and future hopes of becoming a true 21st Century thriving metropolis.
No politician should be elected nor reelected that does not present a comprehensive public transportation and traffic improvement/solution plan. NONE !
This is the Number 1 priority for our area for the foreseeable future.
Fernando A. Amandi
They realized there is a traffic problem after the herald office was moved to Doral
Look at Miami Beach for guidance. Certain people who are running for office are still proposing more parking garages. Imagine zoning 100s of restaurants which don't have any parking spots. Then the restaurants put pressure on the city to build more parking lots. Then the city tells the residents to go ride a bicycle.
The one good thing about traffic jams - especially when the toll lanes are also jammed - is how democratic this fuckup has become.
How about holding up signs that say "driver's lives matter"?
In Coconut Grove the city has been collecting a fee from businesses called Coconut Grove Parking Improvement Fund but instead of solving the parking problems the money has been used to advertise businesses and fund festivals for connected people.
DADE COUNTY TO PUBLISH THROUGHOUT THE COUNTRY NOW A 'NO GROWTH COUNTY'---- ---MAIL IT FIRST TO THE GOVERNOR AND TELL HIM TO QUIT SELLING OUT OUR STATE
Requiring our dear elected officials to use public transport exclusively one week every Month, and non elected officials one Day a week, buying the pass at a public vending station, that seams to close with regularity, might nudge the gubment to finally see the light.
Of course, showing up late would be cause for dismissal, like in the real world for no shows.
How they trumpet: There is no substitute for wisdom of market forces.
The traffic issues are every where. Old Cutler Rd. a once free flowing historic road bordered by open land and residential neighborhoods is now an F grade road by local municipality traffic studies. Now near OCR and sw 184 St a developer wants a master plan change for 9 acres that would allow high density mixed use (commercial). If the Cutler Bay town council votes to allow this, this will be the first domino to drop in a long line of them. This will bring more and more commercial development and tons more traffic from the traffic circle at 87 Ave all the way to sw 184 st all along OCR. Imagine another US1 corridor on a road that can only remain two lanes and with zero public transportation anywhere near. Wake up South-Dade! This could be your future.
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