FDOT Considers Double Decking I-195

FDOT is considering adding a double deck to I-195.

An “overhead viaduct” is one of several possibilities being considered by the agency to expand highway capacity.

Miami Today first reported on the possibility.

The project is currently in the Project Development and Environment phase.

This PD&E Study started in June 2022 and is expected to be completed in June 2025. After the completion of the PD&E phase, the preferred alternative will move to the final design phase, FDOT says.

A Public Kick-Off Meeting on the project took place on February 8, 2023 .

FDOT’s presentation on the project can be viewed here (PDF).

The full FDOT page with additional details and fact sheets can be viewed here.

 

 

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Urbanist
6 months ago

Where are the double decked lanes going to dump into?

95 is gridlock. The beach is gridlock. US1 is gridlock.

FDOT loves building more roads, but more lanes won’t solve this problem. There isn’t any more road space at either end of the destination.

FDOT is proposing an elevated parking lot.

This should be transit.

Azarius
6 months ago

FDOT needs to invest in more light rail projects

wanderer34
6 months ago

Light rail would work between Govt Center and Miami Beach only. Either that or expand Metrorail into Miami Beach and Bay Harbour. IT CAN BE DONE!!!

MiamiArchi
6 months ago

Its just crazy.
I’m not one to say never expand highways but in this case it clearly makes 0 sense.
Where exactly would all that traffic go to? Alton road and 41Street can’t be expanded in any way so it makes 0 sense.
Also! 3 years for this study? when any person could tell you in 2 mins it doesn’t work. WHY!?!

Azarius
6 months ago

They are considering expanding Alton and 41st along with the deck

Jordan
6 months ago

You clearly didn’t read the report linked above.
There is nothing “crazy” in it as far as I can tell.

An Uber leaving the airport would bypass the on ramps and off ramps of I-95/Miami Ave/and Biscayne Blvd and go directly to Miami Beach.

A daytripper who just spent the day on Miami Beach would head west on the elevated highway and cruise safely over in the opposite direction.

The existing causeway widens to allow safe pedestrian and bike lanes. What is so crazy about peace love and understanding?

Anonymous
6 months ago

Looking at both sides here. Jordan may have a good point. If we include pedestrian and bicycle only lanes on the bottom level, maybe it can be a more enjoyable walk and bike ride with the shade of the deck above protecting people from direct sunlight. Double deckers can be very ugly buy maybe we can reinvent them here in Miami.

Anon
6 months ago

Bring back Uber boats and ferries!

GBA
6 months ago

Poseidon Ferry

Bikes and Ferries make it happen
6 months ago

THIS. and bike paths. E-bikes can climb elevation and rip the 2mi run over the water

Anonymous
6 months ago

More underline style separate bikeways!!!

anonymous
6 months ago

yes, we need a ferry service!

Anonymous
6 months ago

lets not panic…..there will be 50 years to study…then contruction bids …another 10 years then start foundation work 5 years supply chain issues 7 years….timeline extensions 10 years……..

Azarius
6 months ago

Read the proposal and now I understand. Miami population is going to increase by 67% by 2045 that’s not to far and a lot of ppl, so I understand addressing the needs before it’s needed but they should really consider adding metroRail to this for better transit options. Understand cars aren’t disappearing from Miami anytime soon

Anon
6 months ago

Right….not if we keep subsidizing the crap out of them….

Jordan
6 months ago

There is link to the FDOT presentation.
Worth the 4 minute read.

Melo, a true Giga Chad
6 months ago

Subway system now!!!!

Exhausted
6 months ago

Holy s*it. Just take that money and extend the metro rail for the love of god

Anon13
6 months ago

Agreed. They should at least try to incorporate an elevated metro rail line into the plan.

Anon13
6 months ago

Makes too much sense, right?comment image

Bikes and Ferries make it happen
6 months ago

This except the train is a bike path and you give people tax credit for e-bike purchase

ParkingHater
6 months ago

Hell just start with the bus lanes. A 2 week test would easily show its cheap and would massively help traffic

Anon
6 months ago

This is beautiful and ONLY solition!

wanderer34
6 months ago

I’ve always thought that incorporating a train line along Dolphin expat from Culmer to Doral and University Park from Govt Center is the best way to expand Metrorail. Wonder what the city and county mayor have to say about this!

JUST BUILD THE DAMN RAIL
6 months ago

They’ll do anything and everything else but that. It’s crazy. I wonder if they’re banking on eVTOLs 🤡

Anonymous
6 months ago

More highways are worst for Miami Beach than rails. Where are those folks chanting now?

Bandit
6 months ago

Disgusting, instead of simply extending the Metrorail west from the 112 this is their “solution” to traffic, more cars…

Local Elections Matter
6 months ago

The FDOT should be called FDAMTS Florida Department Against Mass Transit System

EJS
6 months ago

Exactly!!!

Yeppers
6 months ago

For the love of God, stop.

Anonymous
6 months ago

After how many decks will they understand that we need world class public transportation? I take any guesses. Thanks.

Anonymous
6 months ago

1000

Anon
6 months ago

They already understand it’s not sustainable, they just don’t care.

Anonymous
6 months ago

FDOT is literally creating h3ll on Earth at this point. Highway expansions literally create nothing but stronger traffic and environmental destruction. They could easily accommodate rail/BRT in projects like these but refuse to provide any solutions beyond those for private vehicles. More tax payer money down the drain.

Anonymous
6 months ago

Reform the FDOT!

Antennae
6 months ago

While the rest of the world is investing in mass transit, high speed trains, making central streets for pedestrian only and eliminating cars from the roads altogether, we want to add more cars. Unbelievable.
Total recipe for failure

Anonymous
6 months ago

Metrorail should have been built out to Miami Beach before anywhere else. It should have been the original plan. What happened was the taxi cab posse revolted, and back then the county made a mint selling taxi cab licenses, so it never happened. Never mind that Miami’s trolley system served Miami Beach way back in 1920.

MiamiArchi
6 months ago

Well Remember there was a proposal to extend the metro mover to Miami Beach way back in the early 2000’s but Miami Beach pushed to get it canceled.
Back then Downtown Miami and Brickell was nothing like it is now and they were afraid they would lose tax dollars with tourists staying downtown and commuting to the beach.

Anonymous
6 months ago

The MacArthur Cswy has worse traffic jams than the Tuttle, but the Tuttle doesn’t have the well-heeled Star Island and Palm Island residents living along the causeway to oppose it.

Rocky
6 months ago

Who is leading FDOT and does the public get to voice their opinion on studies like these? Can we talk to someone and convince them that we need rails and less roads?

Anonymous
6 months ago

I think It’s the Governor of Florida?

Brooklyn
6 months ago

Seriously. How can people organize and formally advocate against this and for elevated rail?

Anonymous
6 months ago

So elevated Metromover or Metrorail is too unsightly but a highway isn’t?

Anonymous
6 months ago

Metromover won’t take enough cars off the road compared to one extra lane for automobile traffic.

Anon
6 months ago

Removing a lane will take take cars off the roads, literally. Turn more roads into bike and pedestrian ways!

Anonymous
6 months ago

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Joe CARollo
6 months ago

Don’t be scared just go straight for the triple!!!

Anonymous
6 months ago

Double deck, then triple deck, then keep on going until we have decks as tall as how high rises. Is this really the solution? I’d think not but hey, I’m no “expert”.

anon
6 months ago

F(i)D(i)OT

Anonymous
6 months ago

They’ll never get it

Anonymous
6 months ago

WHO APPOINTS THE FDOT?!

Anon
6 months ago

Anyone who supports this should be voted out of office.

Build the Baylink
6 months ago
Anonymous
6 months ago

Not signing unless it’s Metrorail, or proper light rail with higher speeds and capacity than Metromover.

Jeremey Howlett
6 months ago

Metro mover is basically an electric bus on an elevated platform. It’s too much infrastructure, for a system that isn’t suitable for heavy use.

Anonymous
6 months ago

Think the Metromover cars can be modernized and expanded to add capacity and speed – we are living in 2023

Anon
6 months ago

100,000 cars a day go across the MacArthur Causeway. A MetroMover extension might take a max of 1000 passengers an hour off the road if you pack it to the rafters and run 5 minute headways. Build something with greater capacity, or don’t waste the money.

anon
6 months ago

80,000 cars a day go across macarthur, and, the metromover has a capacity of nearly 2,500 people an hour.

JUST BUILD THE DAMN RAIL
6 months ago

Really all it takes at this point is a bunch of us showing up to city council meetings and demanding investment and consideration.

Anonymous
6 months ago

No, it takes a LOT more than just that.

Anonymous
6 months ago

Yes, the city doesn’t even control transit.

Anonymous
6 months ago

Isn’t the Governor in charge of this?

Anonymous
6 months ago

^^small minor detail for this guy….he was gonna show up at some city meeting anyways and bark like a chihuahua

Anonymous
6 months ago

Nuts!

Moses
6 months ago

Alton road and 41st street are already gridlock everyday. So let’s double the cars on it. I guarantee you 90 percent of Miami beach residents are not for this

Pollo
6 months ago

41st street is gonna be CArmageddon

Melo, the true giga chad
6 months ago

ahh yes everything, but transit. Are these ‘leaders’ even qualified to be making these kinds of decisions??

Anonymous
6 months ago

DEFUND THE FDOT

Anonymous
6 months ago

With the population boom, we need a FDMT – Florida Department of Mass Transportation

Anonymous
6 months ago

i don’t agree with spending more money on highways but these people at the DOT always do what they want. we should at least demand that they save one of the lanes for a Metro rail line

Anons
6 months ago

State Elections Matter

Anonymous
6 months ago

As if the Pothole Petes on the other side of the coin will actually do anything about it.

Anonymous
6 months ago

Dont worry guys: its not going to happen. Only 3 year for the study. From the article: “This PD&E Study started in June 2022 and is expected to be completed in June 2025”. So can you imagin for the rest? 100 years?

As good as it gets
6 months ago

Yes but meanwhile, money wasted, time wasted and in another decade everything more expensive. This is insanity.

Anonymous
6 months ago

The “don’t worry it’s not going to happen” message suppresses our generation from getting anything done.

AAA
6 months ago

Sounds like another Holden Glades in the making.

ParkingHater
6 months ago

If you look at this in the context of the Douglas station TOD story, it’s even worse.

FDOT knows people want transit, continuing to refuse to acknowledge that reality is gonna choke Miami Beach of tourists, residents, students, people!

30kmillionMIA
6 months ago

Miami-Double-Decked-Dade! 🏝️

Name*
6 months ago

All this for just one, two at the most more lanes. As shown in the plan keeping 6 ground lanes is optional.