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Planning Matters

Speed Cushions Coming This Year,

Bayview Drive improvements in 2022!

he Board has been hard at work on a number of this part of town with sidewalks that lead anywhere, attracts
initiatives this year, most notably advancing traffic numerous children, joggers, and dog walkers. Slowing down
T calming measures on internal neighborhood streets traffic and enhancing safety on this street for all who use has
and on Bayview Drive. long been a Board priority.
Speed Cushions will be placed at 40 locations throughout the To provide an idea of
neighborhood to slow down speeding cut through traffic. A traffic volume on
number of residents wrote in to request speed cushions on Bayview between
their streets and the Board carefully considered these requests Commercial and
and attempted to distribute them throughout our large Oakland Park, the
neighborhood where they will be the most effective. Though Broward Metropolitan
not the stop signs we have asked for years, we think the speed Planning Organization
cushions will deter traffic from using our neighborhood streets forecasts that Bayview
as shortcuts to avoid traffic signals, bridge backups and will carry 15,100 vehicles per day in 2030. That compares to a
congestion on arterial roadways (e.g., Commercial, Federal forecast of only 12,800 vehicles per day on Bayview between
and Oakland Park). See the accompanying map showing Oakland and Sunrise (Coral Ridge) and 11,500 vehicles per
where new speed cushions are tentatively planned (numbered day between Commercial and NE 62nd Street (Landings/Bay
on map). We will be working with the City to lock down Colony). So the stretch of Bayview through CRCCE is the most
precise locations. We’ll attempt to align them with property heavily traveled, by a significant margin. This is not surprising
lines were possible. Please review the map and provide input considering we have a number of major destinations--Cardinal
on the tentative locations. There are no doubt other locations Gibbons, Coral Ridge Country Club, the Publix and Target
where we could add more, but we only have enough money anchored Coral Ridge Mall, St. John the Baptist Catholic
for 40 at the present time. We can always add more if we can Church, Christ Church United Methodist, Coastal Tower in and
raise additional funds or convince the City to add more.
extensive strip commercial development on Commercial,
As part of this project, two additional radar Oakland and Federal--either in or directly backing up to our
signs, showing your speed as neighborhood.
you drive by, will be installed by
For those looking for additional perspective on traffic volumes,
the City’s Transportation and
here are the 2030 forecasts for a few other local roads:
Mobility Department on
• Commercial between Federal and Bayview: 36,500
Bayview in addition to the two
vehicles per day.
we have, so we will have two
• Federal between Commercial and Oakland Park: 55.500
north of the Country Club and
vehicles per day.
two south of the Country Club.
• Oakland Park between Federal and Bayview: 41,300
The Bayview Drive Traffic Calming project is in final design. vehicles per day.
Project design and construction is being managed by FDOT. It • Las Olas between NE 15 Ave and SR A1A; 22,700 vehicles
will include three major traffic calming measures in CRCCE – per day.
two roundabouts and a “speed table” – and more in Coral • SR A1A between Oakland Park and Commercial: 34,300
Ridge. Construction on these improvements is expected to vehicles per day
begin in Spring 2022. When completed, they should have the
effect of reducing and slowing traffic on Bayview. Bayview is Here is a link to the 2030 traffic volume map encompassing the
technically a “neighborhood collector” but carries a significant entire county on the MPO website: archive.browardmpo.org/
amount of commercial vehicle traffic, including yard userfiles/files/lrtp2030_traffic_forecast.pdf
maintenance trucks, delivery vehicles, construction traffic, Thanks to board member Danny Grant for his participation
school buses, moving vans, and solid waste trucks. It is also a and our Commissioner Heather Moraitis for her support during
major recreational bike route and as one of the few places in this arduous process.

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