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City And. County offer
Solution • Without Stilts
THE STATE ROAD DEPARTMENT is on record as wanting to help solve,
Greater Miami's traffic problem,
Up to now,the hitch has been that this community lacked a compreheitaive •
plan.
Such a plan now is available. • .
It is in two parts. They fit together almost perfectly. The few differences
can easily be reconciled. ,
Part I is the arterial street system proposed by engineers of the City of
r Miami.
Part li is the throughway-system,outlined by Dade County.
Together, these form an ideal Greater Miami Traffic Plan.
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• • THE CITY'S PLAN is simple and relatively inexpensive. It is based on get-I
ting the maximum use of existing streets.
It can quickly double the capacity, of arteries carrying traffic into and out of
Miami proper, the heart of this growing metropolitan area.
y• The.county's plan, 1n its•tnaip.features, lies outside the.cluster of munlcl- '
• K panties which presently form Greater Miami.
• It calls for 139 miles of limited-access highways "to provide for fast, unham-
pered movement of vehicular traffic through and around the Greater Miami area."
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ML%MI'S NEW ARTERIAL street system is designed to handle all the traffic
• •expected in the next 10 years. -':' -
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The county's throughways extend that purpose tq l lgsatei§i.+t.of the
metropolitan district. . , F"+ I
For example,there is the so-call, Malecon .ction of the throughway system..
It will run for 11 miles north and squt >: cayne Bay.
By-1965, when Miami's arterlal',streets become crowded, this mid-bay express-
way could be ready to play its iitportant part in preventing congestion.
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PART OF THE CITY'S plan,but not of the county's as yet, is a new cause-
way across the bay at 36th st. Th`q,is one of the minor differences on which
agreement should be easy. '0' -
Both agencies of local government know exactly what they want'to do and in
what order.
There is the plan which the State Road Department has been waiting for.
The state needn't sink$100,000,000 or more in an elevated fantasy to slice
through the heart of Greater Miami. -
- 'All the state needs to do is adopt,instead, the home-grown plan.•It is rooted
in this city's immediate needs andishaped to fit its magnificent future:, . .
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-THE STATE ROAD DEPARTMENT has recognized that curing Greater Mi-
ami's traffic troubles deserves top priority as a concern of all Florida. That is
good business. '
As Florida's largest city, this community is the No.1 source of state revenue,,
including gasoline taxes. Helping to solve the traffic and other problems to per-
mit our continued growth is bounds;to be profitable for the state government.
The State Bead Department also has acknowledged the justice of Greater
Miami's claim to a fairer share of state money for highways.For many years,
Dade county has been pouring millions into the'state treasury, getting back
only a dribble. - 1 • . •
Thus every element converges to do the fob so long delayed. The plan is
ready. t`
As the Dade County Planning Board reported last June:
"A complete traffic circulation.system will never again be as easy and inex-
pensive to acquire and build as at the present time."