Evaluation of Multimodal Mobility Options in the South Miami-Dade Area, January 2017
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EVALUATION OF MULTIMODAL MOBILITY OPTIONS IN THE SOUTH MIAMI-DADE AREA Contents Summary ..................................................................................................................................................................................... S-1 Introduction ................................................................................................................................................................................. 1 Task 1: Study Coordination .......................................................................................................................................................... 2 Study Advisory Committee (SAC) ........................................................................................................................................................................ 2 Stakeholders Meetings ........................................................................................................................................................................... 3 Workshops .............................................................................................................................................................................................. 3 Community Remarks .............................................................................................................................................................................. 3 Task 2: Analysis of Existing Conditions ......................................................................................................................................... 4 Task 3: Identification of Future Needs .......................................................................................................................................... 8 Connecting People to Jobs .................................................................................................................................................................................. 10 Travel Time Analysis ............................................................................................................................................................................................ 12 Possible Future Scenarios .................................................................................................................................................................................... 13 Homestead to Dadeland South............................................................................................................................................................... 13 West Kendall to Downtown Miami ........................................................................................................................................................ 14 Findings .................................................................................................................................................................................................. 15 Mobility Hubs ...................................................................................................................................................................................................... 16 Dadeland North & South Mobility Hubs ................................................................................................................................................. 16 Cutler Bay Mobility Hub .......................................................................................................................................................................... 21 Coral Reef: SW 152nd Street and Busway Mobility Hub ......................................................................................................................... 27 Forecasting Approach .......................................................................................................................................................................................... 31 US-1 Corridor .......................................................................................................................................................................................... 31 Kendall Corridor ...................................................................................................................................................................................... 32 Old Cutler Road Corridor ........................................................................................................................................................................ 32 SW 152nd Street Corridor ........................................................................................................................................................................ 33 i | Page EVALUATION OF MULTIMODAL MOBILITY OPTIONS IN THE SOUTH MIAMI-DADE AREA Contents (continued) SW 137th/SW 157th Avenue Corridor ...................................................................................................................................................... 34 SW 117th Avenue Corridor ...................................................................................................................................................................... 34 Krome Avenue Corridor .......................................................................................................................................................................... 34 Task 4: Analysis of Potential Improvements ................................................................................................................................. 35 Introduction ......................................................................................................................................................................................................... 35 Tasks 5 and 6: Identification of Potential Projects and their Costs ................................................................................................ 36 Appendix A – Plans for South Dade County Appendix B – Travel Forecasting Approach ii | Page EVALUATION OF MULTIMODAL MOBILITY OPTIONS IN THE SOUTH MIAMI-DADE AREA SUMMARY free-flow, LOS A conditions. The area’s residents and The focus of this study is to examine mobility in drivers, correctly perceive South Miami-Dade County, by examining the congestion that erodes roadway, transit, bicycle and pedestrian net- their quality of life. There is works, with the goal of recommending a set of a lot of work to be done. multimodal transportation projects that are in- terconnected, so that people have options for The Strategic Miami Area how they travel through the county. Rapid Transit (SMART) Plan is in the early stages of im- Today, South Miami-Dade is a large, young, and plementation, at a time just growing area which is not fully developed. It ahead of a potential signifi- includes 50 percent of the land area of the cant new national invest- County, 25 percent of the population, and ment in transportation in- 12 percent of the jobs. Its population and em- frastructure, which will en- ployment are out of balance. Overall, the de- hance the potential of the velopment pattern is not transit supportive, plan’s reality. All six SMART because it is mainly estate and low-density res- corridors are advancing at idential. the same time. The roadway grid is fractured, forcing vehicular The projects suggested in traffic onto a few major corridors, which spills this report are critical to into neighborhoods where bottlenecks cause make the SMART Plan more congestion. The flow of about 200,000 people effective. They support moving in and out of the area on the few con- and enhance transit by fo- nected roads creates congestion, which is cusing on transit-support- highly directional to the north in the morning ive land uses, including and to the south in the afternoon. Often, anal- “first mile/last mile” pro- ysis using average daily traffic does not account jects in development for the fact that the vehicles heading north in nodes. the AM peak are operating at Level of Service (LOS) F, while traffic heading south experiences S-1 | Page EVALUATION OF MULTIMODAL MOBILITY OPTIONS IN THE SOUTH MIAMI-DADE AREA All of this will create a vital mobility system trian projects.) This represents a shift in invest- Advancing the concept of nodal development which will increase transit ridership, make the ments from roads to transit to provide multi- originally articulated for the “Charrette Areas” SMART corridors more competitive for fund- modal transportation capacity in the future. along US-1 is critical to this shift. Doing so re- ing, and relieve neighborhood streets of con- quires changing land use and zoning to transit- gestion caused by “overflow” traffic. When ex- This blend of projects will cause efficiency gains oriented densities which contain a sufficient amined regionally, South Miami-Dade will be on the road and transit networks which will balance of commercial and residential uses. part of a connected transit system, including help relieve neighborhood streets of conges- Economic development strategies to market hubs of activity along the SMART corridors. tion. Use of the transit system is projected to these areas is also vital. This will create a synergy for a significant shift increase by over 30,000 riders per day com- to transit. pared to a scenario in which no improvements Enhancing transit-oriented land use and urban are made. This will be supported by the “first design in the development nodes,