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</o:shapelayout></xml><![endif]--></head><body lang=EN-US link=blue vlink=purple><div class=WordSection1><p class=MsoNormal><b><span style='font-size:24.0pt;line-height:115%;color:#002060'>Please attend a very important meeting about traffic on S.W. 19th Street between the Sawgrass and I 95.<o:p></o:p></span></b></p><p class=MsoNormal><b><span style='font-size:24.0pt;line-height:115%;color:#002060'>WEDNESDAY - <o:p></o:p></span></b></p><p class=MsoNormal><b><span style='font-size:24.0pt;line-height:115%;color:#002060'>SEPTEMBER 30TH - 7:00 PM <o:p></o:p></span></b></p><p class=MsoNormal><b><span style='font-size:24.0pt;line-height:115%;color:#002060'>AT THE BSO SUB STATION<o:p></o:p></span></b></p><p class=MsoNormal><b><span style='font-size:24.0pt;line-height:115%;color:#002060'>ON POWERLINE BETWEEN SW 10TH AND HILLSBORO<o:p></o:p></span></b></p><p class=MsoNormal><b><span style='font-size:20.0pt;line-height:115%;color:#002060'>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.<o:p></o:p></span></b></p><p class=MsoNormal><b><span style='font-size:20.0pt;line-height:115%;color:#002060'>Talk to your neighbors and encourage everyone to attend – parking is limited so try to car pool.<o:p></o:p></span></b></p><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:7.5pt;line-height:normal;background:white'><i><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#002060'>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.<o:p></o:p></span></i></p><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:7.5pt;line-height:normal;background:white'><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#002060'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:7.5pt;line-height:normal;background:white'><span style='font-size:14.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#002060'>Following is an article that was recently in the Sun Sentinel Newspaper:<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt;line-height:normal;background:white'><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"'>September 4, 2015<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto;mso-line-height-alt:21.0pt;background:white'><span style='font-size:28.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"'>State tries to build consensus on missing Sawgrass link <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='mso-line-height-alt:15.0pt;background:white'><b><span style='font-size:18.0pt;font-family:"Georgia","serif"'>By </span></b><a href="http://www.sun-sentinel.com/soflanews-michael-turnbell-on-trans-20130507-staff.html#navtype=byline"><b><span style='font-size:18.0pt;font-family:"Georgia","serif";color:windowtext'>Michael Turnbell</span></b></a><b><span style='font-size:18.0pt;font-family:"Georgia","serif"'> </span></b><span style='font-size:18.0pt;font-family:"Georgia","serif"'>Sun Sentinel</span><span style='font-size:14.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'> <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt;line-height:normal;background:white'><span style='font-size:18.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif";color:#333333'>Opinions differ on what should be done to fix Southwest 10th Street.</span><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"'><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='line-height:normal;background:white'><span style='font-size:18.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif";color:#333333'>Officials take new approach to solving Southwest 10th Street's congestion woes.</span><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"'><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto;line-height:normal;background:white'><span style='font-size:16.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"'>DEERFIELD BEACH Pressure is mounting to ease Southwest 10<sup>th</sup> Street's congestion woes while addressing the Sawgrass Expressway's missing link.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto;line-height:normal;background:white'><span style='font-size:16.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"'>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 10<sup>th</sup> Street and the growth of homes and businesses along the busy corridor.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt;line-height:normal;background:white;vertical-align:top'><span style='font-size:14.0pt'><a href="http://www.sun-sentinel.com/local/broward/fl-turnpike-sawgrass-southwest10th-link-20150904-story.html"><span style='font-size:16.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"'> </span></a></span><span style='font-size:16.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"'>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.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto;line-height:normal;background:white'><span style='font-size:16.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"'>Among the items they may consider:<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto;line-height:normal;background:white'><span style='font-size:16.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"'>•Widening Southwest 10<sup>th</sup> Street to six lanes, improving turn lanes and building sidewalks and bike lanes.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto;line-height:normal;background:white'><span style='font-size:16.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"'>•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.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto;line-height:normal;background:white'><span style='font-size:16.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"'>•Improving traffic signal timing.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto;line-height:normal;background:white'><span style='font-size:16.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"'>•Adding express bus service as the road is currently not served by mass transit.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto;line-height:normal;background:white'><span style='font-size:16.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"'>•Noise walls.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto;line-height:normal;background:white'><span style='font-size:16.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"'>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.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto;line-height:normal;background:white'><span style='font-size:16.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"'>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.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto;line-height:normal;background:white'><span style='font-size:16.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"'>Residents in neighborhoods on the south side of the street say they wait too long to make left turns to go west onto 10<sup>th</sup> Street.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto;line-height:normal;background:white'><span style='font-size:16.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"'>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.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto;line-height:normal;background:white'><span style='font-size:16.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"'>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.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto;line-height:normal;background:white'><span style='font-size:16.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"'>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.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto;line-height:normal;background:white'><span style='font-size:16.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"'>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.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto;line-height:normal;background:white'><span style='font-size:16.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"'>Planners say past efforts had little consideration for "quality of life" issues that concern residents who live next to the road.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto;line-height:normal;background:white'><span style='font-size:16.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"'>Officials are hopeful the new approach will succeed because resident input is being sought before the state proceeds.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto;line-height:normal;background:white'><span style='font-size:16.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"'>"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."<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto;line-height:normal;background:white'><span style='font-size:16.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"'>The southbound I-95 off-ramp to 10<sup>th</sup> 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.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto;line-height:normal;background:white'><span style='font-size:16.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"'>The state is also looking long term at replacing the 10<sup>th</sup> Street overpass, widening the bridge over the Tri-Rail tracks and building a new direct on-ramp from westbound 10<sup>th</sup> Street to northbound I-95.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto;line-height:normal;background:white'><span style='font-size:16.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"'>In early 2016, turnpike officials will begin a study to widen Sawgrass' eastern leg from State Road 7 to its transition into 10<sup>th</sup> Street just west of Powerline Road.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto;line-height:normal;background:white'><span style='font-size:16.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"'>A major part of that review will consider new ramps between 10<sup>th</sup> Street and the turnpike.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto;line-height:normal;background:white'><span style='font-size:16.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"'>"It just seems so logical and it looks like there is enough land to build it," said Coral Springs commuter David Allphin.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto;line-height:normal;background:white'><span style='font-size:16.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"'>Turnpike officials have resisted connecting 10th Street to the turnpike unless 10th Street is upgraded to handle more traffic.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto;line-height:normal;background:white'><span style='font-size:16.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"'>"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.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p></div></body></html>