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Beach Corridor Alternatives - Miami Beach WorkshopBeach Corridor Rapid Transit Project City of Miami Beach Transportation Workshop July 15, 2019 1 Meeting Agenda •Introductions •Project Overview •Project Milestones •Project Status Update •Project Alignments •Project Schedule •Public Engagement •Review and Comments on Alignments 2 Project Overview – Project Location 3 Project Overview – Purpose and Need •Selected as one of the six SMART Plan Rapid Transit Corridors •Major East-West Connection •High levels of traffic congestion •Need to serve major regional economic engines 4 Project Overview – Project Goals •Provide direct, convenient and comfortable rapid transit service to existing and future planned land uses •Provide enhanced transit interconnections •Promote pedestrian and bicycle-friendly solutions 5 Project Milestones •May 2017 to July 2018 –Completed Tier 1 Analysis –Completed Miami Corridor Analysis •August 2018 –Began Tier 2 Analysis –Inclusive of expanded Miami Beach area –Including new Personal Rapid Transit (PRT) mode 6 Project Milestones – Tier 1 Analysis Results •Eliminated dedicated lane options south of I-395 •Eliminated Aerial Cable Transit and Heavy Rail Transit technologies •Recommended technologies to move forward into Tier 2 –Monorail –Metromover/AGT –BRT/Express Bus –LRT/Streetcar Aerial Cable Transit Heavy Rail Transit 7 Project Milestones – City of Miami Corridor Analysis Results •Analyzed Miami Avenue, Biscayne Boulevard, NE 2nd Avenue Corridors •Criteria: Public impact, Engineering, Environmental Corridor Comparison North Miami Avenue NE 2nd Avenue Biscayne Boulevard Environmental Impacts First Second Third Transportation / Ridership Second Second First Engineering Feasibility Second Third Second 8 Project Status Update •Held additional project kick off meeting in December 2018 for expanded study area in Miami Beach • Analyzed additional mode: Personal Rapid Transit –Existing systems throughout the world serve special purpose environments with low ridership –Vehicle reliability, safety and capacity unproven in a high ridership, urban environment –To minimize risk, a proof of concept demonstration project would be required –Minimal opportunity for interoperability and/or interlining with other modes –PRT costs would be similar to other proven technologies such as Metromover (high fleet size requirements, and similar causeway crossing improvements) Recommendation: eliminate from further study 9 Project Status Update •Travel Market Analysis –Higher population and employment densities in southern portion of study area –Study area has double the trip density of the County – more transit options needed –Zero-car households concentrated in southern portion of study area –Existing transit connections focused on downtown – southern connection to the Beach would serve more people –Northern Miami-Dade accounts for large portion of trips to study area •Lower density origins – requires connectivity to existing transit –Trips starting or ending in the study area travel north/south on either side of Bay •Small number cross the Bay –Travel demand in the study area highest in daytime and nighttime; not commute times •Wide range of trip purposes served – tourism/entertainment 10 Project Status Update •Bay Crossing Alternatives Analysis –Analyzed two causeways for Beach Corridor fixed transit connection: I-195/Julia Tuttle Causeway and I-395/MacArthur Causeway –Potential environmental impacts are similar across both causeways –Cost of infrastructure improvements required for transit connection highest along Julia Tuttle Causeway •Assumes need to connect JTC to existing system •Median alignment of JTC highest cost •Southern alignment of JTC lower cost than all elevated on MacArthur Causeway –Transportation demand and anticipated ridership better served along MacArthur Causeway •Cost per rider for Southern alignment of JTC (without connection to existing system) is higher Recommendation: Eliminate Julia Tuttle Causeway alignment from further study for fixed transit connection. Continue to analyze BRT/Express Bus along this corridor 11 Project Alignments – Metromover (AGT) Automated Guideway Transit 12 Project Alignments – Monorail Monorail 13 Project Alignments – Light Rail Light Rail Transit 14 Project Alignments – Bus Rapid Transit Bus Rapid Transit 15 Project Schedule 16 Public Engagement For more information: Kiranmai Chirumamilla, E.I., DTPW Project Manager Phone: Email: 786-469-5283 Kiranmai.chirumamilla@miamidade.gov Odalys Delgado, AICP, Consultant Project Manager Phone: Em ail: 305-507-5583 Odalys.Delgado@parsons.com Yvette Holt, Consultant Public Information Officer (PIO) Phone: Em ail: 305-335-0924 Yvette@Holtcommunications.net Your feedback is important!