Thursday, October 18, 2007

Traffic Problems? What Traffic Problems?

A 'consultant to the City of Miami' says sure, you can reduce traffic problems at the Orange Bowl site, provided you devise a 'reversible roadway loop', close 'off a small inner ring of streets', create 'a permit parking program', implement 'a "way finding" system on all major highways, main roads and local streets', identify 'offsite parking facilities', provide 'free shuttle service to the stadium', dedicate 'a public transit lane', encourage 'Miami-Dade Transit to "maintain, advertise and enhance" bus service', restructure 'Metrorail and bus schedules to ensure only five minutes pass between each train or bus as patrons leave games', and find $12 million dollars to pay for all of these adjustments.

County Commissioner Gimenez even finds a bright spot in all this, saying that cars stuck in traffic trying to leave games at 10:00 at night at least won't be cars stuck in traffic during Rush Hour. (MiamiToday)

OOPS: That wasn't Gimenez who said that, but "Alfred Lurigados, director of engineering for the Miami-Dade Expressway Authority".

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