Holding her 10-month-old baby, Tamara Tubic recounted how she and her family - including her 2-year-old - made the roughly 25-minute drive from Edgewater to spend Sunday in Key Biscayne...traffic was unusually heavy.
Since her astute observation, the family has been stuck on the island's only roadway for more...far from home. Tubic's family was one of the hundreds of visitors whose cars formed a sea of red along the Rickenbacker Causeway as traffic stood at a standstill for hours.
Sunday was the first night the Rickenbacker Causeway's flyover bridge that connects westbound traffic to South Dixie Highway and I-95 north was closed, according to the Florida Department of Transportation (FDOT). It's scheduled to remain shut down for two months while transportation officials restore concrete pavement.
Miami Mayor Francis Suarez underscored the city wasn't involved in the closure but is 'doing everything we can do to flush the traffic out.' Key Biscayne Mayor Joe Rasco, too, had plenty to say about the disarray...it had been studied and was under control,' he said. 'Clearly, it is not.'
#traffic-congestion #construction-delays #rickenbacker-causeway #local-officials #transportation-disruption
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