[Email] Meeting about SW 10th Street - Wednesday, Sept 30 - 7 pm

[Denise Bogner]

Please attend a very important meeting about traffic on S.W. 19th Street
between the Sawgrass and I 95.

WEDNESDAY - 

SEPTEMBER 30TH  -  7:00  PM 

AT THE BSO SUB STATION

ON POWERLINE BETWEEN SW 10TH AND HILLSBORO

The Metropolitan Planning Organization (MPO) is spending $250,000 to gather
information and make recommendations about  the street that runs along our
homes.  Pam Adams from the consulting firm will be holding this meeting.

Talk to your neighbors and encourage everyone to attend - parking is limited
so try to car pool.

The Broward MPO is a transportation policy-making board comprised of 19
voting members including representatives from the South Florida Regional
Transportation Authority/Tri-Rail (SFRTA), the Broward County School Board,
and three Broward County Commissioners. There are an additional 18 Alternate
members of the board, who have voting rights when others are absent. The MPO
is responsible for transportation planning and funding allocation in Broward
County. The Broward MPO works with the public, planning organizations,
government agencies, elected officials, and community groups to develop
transportation plans.

 

Following is an article that was recently in the Sun Sentinel Newspaper:

September 4, 2015

State tries to build consensus on missing Sawgrass link 

By
<http://www.sun-sentinel.com/soflanews-michael-turnbell-on-trans-20130507-st
aff.html#navtype=byline> Michael Turnbell Sun Sentinel 

Opinions differ on what should be done to fix Southwest 10th Street.

Officials take new approach to solving Southwest 10th Street's congestion
woes.

DEERFIELD BEACH Pressure is mounting to ease Southwest 10th Street's
congestion woes while addressing the Sawgrass Expressway's missing link.

Controversy doomed earlier plans to extend the Sawgrass, but a new push is
being prompted by changes in the surrounding area. They include state plans
to upgrade the Interstate 95 interchange, a new direct link Florida's
Turnpike and Southwest 10th Street and the growth of homes and businesses
along the busy corridor.

 
<http://www.sun-sentinel.com/local/broward/fl-turnpike-sawgrass-southwest10t
h-link-20150904-story.html> Prior attempts at change involved traffic
engineers presenting alternatives to residents. This time, a selected group
of neighbors from Coral Springs to Deerfield Beach will explore options, try
to reach a consensus and give direction to the state.

Among the items they may consider:

.Widening Southwest 10th Street to six lanes, improving turn lanes and
building sidewalks and bike lanes.

.Addressing bottlenecks at major intersections like Powerline Road, Military
Trail and Newport Center Drive, the first intersection west of I-95, as well
as the I-95 interchange.

.Improving traffic signal timing.

.Adding express bus service as the road is currently not served by mass
transit.

.Noise walls.

Southwest 10th Street is only the connection between the turnpike and I-95
in Broward that is mostly four lanes. It's over capacity at rush hour, but
on weekends traffic is much lighter.

Commuters face eight traffic signals between the end of the Sawgrass and
I-95. Drivers headed west can't get on the turnpike. And northbound turnpike
drivers can't exit at Southwest 10th Street, which could provide an
alternate route to Boca Raton via Powerline Road or Military Trail.

Residents in neighborhoods on the south side of the street say they wait too
long to make left turns to go west onto 10th Street.

For years, there has been no agreement on what to do with Southwest 10th
Street. As a result, there are no major fixes funded in the county's
long-term transportation plan through 2040.

Southwest 10th Street was planned in the '80s as the final leg of the
Sawgrass beltway around Broward's western suburbs. But Century Village
residents didn't want an elevated highway running past their condos.

County officials killed the project in 1993 and did so again in 2008 when
the idea was revived. At that time, the condo residents were joined by
neighbors south of the street who feared increased traffic and possible loss
of direct access to the roadway.

Coral Springs officials, who want a speedier connection to I-95, revived the
discussion in 2013. That's when planners decided to hire a consultant to
build consensus among residents along the corridor.

Planners say past efforts had little consideration for "quality of life"
issues that concern residents who live next to the road.

Officials are hopeful the new approach will succeed because resident input
is being sought before the state proceeds.

"What's the definition of insanity? It's doing the same thing twice and
expecting different results," said regional transportation planner Paul
Calvaresi. "The public outreach is coming first."

The southbound I-95 off-ramp to 10th Street is currently being widened with
a free-flow right lane that will make it easier for exiting drivers to head
west toward the Sawgrass. That work will be completed in 2017.

The state is also looking long term at replacing the 10th Street overpass,
widening the bridge over the Tri-Rail tracks and building a new direct
on-ramp from westbound 10th Street to northbound I-95.

In early 2016, turnpike officials will begin a study to widen Sawgrass'
eastern leg from State Road 7 to its transition into 10th Street just west
of Powerline Road.

A major part of that review will consider new ramps between 10th Street and
the turnpike.

"It just seems so logical and it looks like there is enough land to build
it," said Coral Springs commuter David Allphin.

Turnpike officials have resisted connecting 10th Street to the turnpike
unless 10th Street is upgraded to handle more traffic.

"There would be need to be other studies for analyzing Southwest 10th Street
to the east to accompany that system-to-system connectivity to support the
additional traffic," said John Easterling, a turnpike engineer.

 

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