According to the South Florida Business Journal, Greater Miami has once again made it to the top tier of a title to be ashamed of (this is the second "bad" list we made in just a few weeks time): Greater Miami has surpassed Atlanta in IBM’s second annual Commuter Pain Index survey of traffic in major metropolitan areas. The survey, released Friday, ranks Miami the third-worst area in the nation for commuter pain, behind only Los Angeles and Washington, D.C.
We beat out New York and Chicago for third worst. This is what happens when you push growth and sprawl without preparing for it. Thank you County Commissioners for 'paving' the way for this title of making commuters crazy. The study found for example:
• Forty percent of respondents in greater Miami report aggressive/rude drivers as the most frustrating part of their commute. This is a five percentage-point increase from last year and the highest percentage among the 10 cities surveyed.
• Traffic was so bad on at least one occasion within the last three years that nearly 39 percent of Miami drivers turned around and went home. That percentage – up 6 points since last year – is higher than any other city in the survey.
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Blame should also go to whoever does the traffic concurrency reports for zoning. I always found it interesting the routes they would create to get from A to B were and are never the miost direct route because if they were, they'd be F roads and of course, the developers couldn't have that. The traffic counts are flawed too, so part of the problem lies within P&Z too.
I'm glad to see we've moved up a spot, but clearly we can do better.
Watch your back, LA!
HOORAY! WE ARE WINNING!!!!!
Seriously, I have to say that these facts from the article should surprise none of us... these are a part of what keeps Miami from becoming a great city.
"Among the survey’s findings:
*Forty percent of respondents in greater Miami report aggressive/rude drivers as the most frustrating part of their commute. This is a five percentage-point increase from last year and the highest percentage among the 10 cities surveyed.
*Traffic was so bad on at least one occasion within the last three years that nearly 39 percent of Miami drivers turned around and went home. That percentage – up 6 points since last year – is higher than any other city in the survey.
*Nearly one in four South Florida commuters (24.4 percent – second only to Atlanta) said the recession has changed the way they get to work. Among this group, 34 percent say they are taking public transportation more often, 26 percent are carpooling more often and 23 percent are working from home. This is a potentially important trend for a region that has the largest proportion (78 percent) of commuters who said that “driving alone” was their main mode of work transportation (versus the national average of 67 percent).
*Commuters said the worst roadway traffic is on I-95, I-595, U.S. 441, State Road 826/Palmetto Expressway, U.S. 1 and Kendall Drive.
Charlie Crist thinks we don't need traffic concurrency. Build baby build, you don't have to put in new roads. Thanks Charlie for helping us become number 1.
Miami has too many foreigners who don't know the rules of the road.
Wanna be #1? Cut transit funding so everyone has to drive.
P&Z doesn't do traffic concurrency; Public Works does.
Does public works actually work for the public or for the developers? I love their creative traffic counts, they're funnier that watching the BCC approve applications the P&Z dept recommends denial of.......
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