Photos: Construction Progress At Flagler Street’s Curbless, Pedestrian-Friendly Rebuild

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Contractors continue to make progress on the first phase of construction at the pedestrian-friendly rebuild of Flagler Street, according to a Twitter post by Ryan RC Rea.

 

(photos: Ryan RC Rea)




The five phases, each to take eight months:

 

 

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Anonymous
11 months ago

Love those big sidewalks! Looking good 👍

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Anonymous
10 months ago

I’ve never understood why Miami’s downtown core is so different from every other major city’s? Go to New York, Chicago, Washington D.C., etc. and sidewalks are 20, 30, sometimes 40 feet wide. Miami’s are 5 feet wide and there is usually a street sign or a fire hydrant taking up a third of that space. Is it a case of the city getting too big too fast? Allowing developers to build anything that they want without requiring infrastructure upgrades? Government incompetence? All of the above?

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Joe CARollo
10 months ago

You must be new here…yes. yes. And yes. That is exactly the problem and the local Commissioners are useless but have all the power. The number of light poles in the middle of sidewalks is astounding.

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Anonymous
10 months ago

You’re comparing cities where in the daytime you’ll see maybe thousands to hundreds of people at a time walking on their core sidewalks to a city where you’ll see what, maybe two at a time walking in the daytime on it’s hot-a$$ sidewalks?

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Vince
11 months ago

Bring those big sidewalks to Brickell!

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Anonymous
11 months ago

Yes! We need them on S. Miami Ave desperately.

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Anonymous
10 months ago

Please: do something with the fountain at bayside

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Anonymous
10 months ago

They are, they’re ignoring it…

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Anonymous
11 months ago

Flagler Street will probably become the next big thing.

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Ciparoo
10 months ago

We can hope….

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Casey
10 months ago

so much potential for a downtown revival

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Anom
11 months ago

I still see curbs

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Brooklyn
10 months ago

They are at grade. Look closer.

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m m
10 months ago

I walk by every day. There are no curbs. The work is not complete yet.

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Anonymous
10 months ago

I see dead people.

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Anonymous
10 months ago

Nice, but five stages of eight months each, total of 40 months. It seems like a simple work, to take so long.

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m m
10 months ago

It’s not just cosmetic – it’s much more than that. They are ripping out every single infrastructural element and replacing it. That’s gas, electric, water, communications, waste, etc. Then after that is raising the street level, pavers, irrigation systems, plantings, etc.

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Anonymous
10 months ago

Forget it.. it’s easier to sit on your ass and bicker about whats being done than doing the job yourself.

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Alpina
11 months ago

FPL People must be salivating while they hold their spray paint can in their hands…sadly hieroglyphs will be drawn in the near future

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Anonymous
11 months ago

Love the progress and I know it’s not done but it kinda looks lackluster. Hoping the finished product delivers lots of landscaping, modern lighting, and protected bike lanes. I’m sure as more businesses open up here too it’ll look great

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Anonymous
11 months ago

🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣

*Still waiting for the photos of the progress…

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Anonymous
10 months ago

This is his plan.

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Anonymous
10 months ago

Time to start removing all the graffiti before it spreads to every new lamp post, utility box, and planter.

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anon
11 months ago

waiting for the property values to go up

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Anonymous
10 months ago

Hope they use far more shade trees then palm trees. Palm trees are pretty to look at, but provide almost no sun protection

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Ciparoo
10 months ago

Yeah thats true but it’d be nice but also ideally this area will be surrounded by tall buildings so that kinda provides the same shade. Doesn’t really cool the way trees would but…

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Zonked
10 months ago

Why not just make it completely pedestrian or at least bus-only?

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Anonymous
10 months ago

“Progress” lol, by next year this project will officially be ONE DECADE late on delivery compared to the original time frame

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Anonymous
11 months ago

Interesting curb/border feature around the Canary palm trees. The only problem is some idiot will try to skate board on it.

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Anonymous
11 months ago

Hmmm.. you do have a point there…

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Anonymous
10 months ago

Yep, and homeless will sit on them, or some child allowed by their idiot parent(s) will run up, fall and break their head. This is why we can’t have nice things anymore.

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Not Anonymous
10 months ago

and people will put their drinks there, where they will be inevitably spilled.

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Anonymous
10 months ago

Metal bumps have to be installed on them. It would also keep people from sitting on them and falling into the road.

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Ciparoo
10 months ago

All these damn skateboarders on my sidewalks!

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Anonymous
10 months ago

Pointless while the buildings/businesses remain slums. Money would have been better spent completing missing sections of the river walk and then recouping those expenses from future development

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Anonymous
10 months ago

It will be nice to at least see the decent buildings improve. Flagler First could use a Starbucks and Häagen-Dazs where RadioShack and Subway previously were located, and Walgreens returning to its old location.

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Parkinghater
10 months ago

would’ve made nice bus lanes.

also, I love the old bell systems manhole covers. glad they keeping them

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Smart Developer
10 months ago

Yep. He knows he’s holding on to a Gold mine

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Ciparoo
10 months ago

He made his bet and will (maybe, probably) reap the rewards

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Pepito Perez
10 months ago

I like the anti bum benches

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