On September 15, Katie and I attended FDOT's meeting held at John Prince Park regarding the two state plans presented in order to evaluate preliminary engineering and environmentally feasible solutions, such as widening 6th Avenue South and the I-95 interchange, adding bike lanes on 6th Avenue South. This is in order to address the future capacity, operations and safety needs of the roadway. We both liked plan #2 as there was no eminent domain involved.
We were told that plan implementation, costing anywhere from $9 million to $11 million, is needed to support the growth projected in year 2040.
I can't help but think it might have to do with the Atlanta Braves and this county commission wanting to hand over 100 plus acres to them. Can you even imagine the traffic on a typical baseball day in a stadium that is expecting to hold 10,000 people? It will be slowed to a halt and bumper to bumper. 6th Avenue South is already a bottleneck. With the expected all Aboard Florida additional trains, it will be virtually impossible at that Interchange.
6th avenue south is a zoo. the traffic is unreal.
ReplyDeleteAll Aboard Florida is not using the tracks next to I-95... They are going to use the tracks to the east, closer to Dixie. Shouldn't be too much of a back up waiting for the rapid train to zoom by...
ReplyDeleteIt took 3 red lights at 95 to get to Costco on Lantana Road on Wednesday afternoon from Dixie highway over 10 minutes total.
ReplyDeleteThis is off season. Who are the County Commissioners representing when they approve EVERY development that comes before them?