Beach Corridor Alternatives - Miami Beach Workshop
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Rapid Transit Project
City of Miami Beach Transportation Workshop
July 15, 2019
Meeting Agenda
• Introductions
• Project Overview
• Project Milestones
• Project Status Update
• Project Alignments
• Project Schedule
• Public Engagement
• Review and Comments on Alignments
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Project Overview – Project Location
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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
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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
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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
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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
Aerial
Aerial Cable
Cable Transit
Transit
Tier 2
– Monorail
– Metromover/AGT
– BRT/Express Bus
– LRT/Streetcar
Heavy
Heavy Rail
Rail Transit
Transit
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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
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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
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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
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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
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Project Alignments – Metromover (AGT)
Automated Guideway Transit
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Project Alignments – Monorail
Monorail
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Project Alignments – Light Rail
Light Rail Transit
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Project Alignments – Bus Rapid Transit
Bus Rapid Transit
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Project Schedule
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Public Engagement
For more
information:
Kiranmai Chirumamilla, E.I., DTPW Project Manager
Phone: 786-469-5283
Email: [email protected]
Odalys Delgado, AICP, Consultant Project Manager Your feedback
Phone: 305-507-5583
Email: [email protected]
Yvette Holt, Consultant Public Information Officer (PIO)
is important!
Phone: 305-335-0924
Email: [email protected]
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