SAVE THE LIGHTS. This is small town politics at its best. Ths is a Miami Town Meeting which took place yesterday evening.
All said and done, it seems to me that much of the angnst in this meeting stemmed from city leaders doing a poor job of communicating and keeping the options on the table until a suitable solution could be found.
ADOT (transportation) has noticed- along with residents- that there are alot of rear-end collisions in the one-mile strip in downtown Miami. They would like to do something about that. And the options are turn lanes, reducing the parking on the hwy (which feeds through town and constitutes some people's only parking ) and taking out a street light. It seems to me that the removal of ONE light - got blown up to "ADOT is trying to take out all our lights downtown." If this were the case, it would be cause for concern. But that's not what I heard at the meeting. It seemed that ADOT (who didn't attend the meeting) was getting slotted into the bad guy role....when I think the culprit was lack of good communication about what was the GOAL. And what were the options. The result of the meeting was a unanimous voting-down of the proposal to remove one light. But I'm not sure where that leaves us with the problem of rear-end collisions.
