closures of the MacArthur, Venetian and Julia Tuttle causeways Thursdays through Sundays until April. The closure of this oceanfront roadway was to help businesses add outside seating as they were trying to maintain social distancing.īut in spring 2021, drunken violence, destruction of property and severe traffic obstruction by nightlife crowds led authorities to impose 8 p.m. In May 2020 the traffic lanes of Ocean Drive were closed and stayed closed throughout the pandemic, until now. Restaurants such as CJ’s Crab Shack, LT Steak and Seafood and Havana 1957 are some of the drive’s most important, bringing in locals and tourists, which contributes greatly to the economy. Ocean Drive, which stretches from South Point, south of First Street, north to 15th Street, houses many of the hotels built during the 1930s and 1940s, including the Betsy South Beach, the Cavalier Hotel, Hotel Breakwater, Cardozo Hotel and the famous Clevelander Hotel in its Art Deco style that the city has worked to preserve. “I believe that over the last couple of months we’ve shown that we can keep that area in good shape and still let people and residents join the street.” “I am skeptical that we need to bring a lane of southbound traffic back to Ocean Drive,” said Commissioner Mark Samuelian.
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“The city would be reversing the flow of Ocean Court between 14th Place and 13th Street,” said the memo, as regulatory signage and wayfinding signage is installed “to ensure that drivers follow the new traffic pattern.” In addition, a design for the interim pedestrian plaza was presented to the city commission Dec. The work, said the memo, would take a maximum of 12 days or work. Work to reopen the traffic lane, such as completing necessary signage, was to start Monday after the contractor completed all directional white striping for southbound vehicles and the bike lane markings.
would be the date for reopening a southbound traffic lane from Fifth to 13th streets and a pedestrian-only plaza that would be created between 13th Street and 14th Place.
28, Miami Beach City Manager Alina Hudak said that Jan. After a chaotic and uncontrolled avalanche of party crowds during the spring break of 2020 that ended in arrests, ongoing curfews and the ultimate closure to vehicle traffic to the street, a southbound lane is opening again in South Beach’s Ocean Drive along with a temporary pedestrian plaza, following months of discussions and holiday delays, the city has announced.
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