PEDESTRIAN MOBILITY MUST BE MAINTAINED DURING CONSTRUCTION AND MAINTENANCE

IT’S THE LAW (ADA & PROWAG) AND THE RIGHT THING TO DO

This barrier to safe pedestrian mobility for all is at one of Miami’s busiest intersections — Coral Way and SW. 22nd Ave.

Anyone who says wheelchair users can simply detour through the gas station is being foolhardy. That is dangerous and unacceptable.

FPL is notorious for projects that destroy mobility and endanger pedestrians.

When it did work around giant poles on SW. 22nd Ave. last year, sidewalk pathways were blocked for 90 days.

That can’t happen again.

This is why the City Of Miami desperately needs a chief mobility officer.

It does not require an engineer or certified planner or attorney.

It is best led by passionate person focusing each day on coordinating between city, county, utilities and businesses to guarantee, safe mobility for people with disabilities, children, elderly.

DANGEROUS BY DESIGN

PROTECTING UTILIITES FROM CARS TAKES PRIORITY

OVER PROTECTING HUMANS FROM BEING RUN OVER

This is the “I know I’m doing a bad thing” approach to sidewalk design.

Government plants streetlights on sidewalk.

So vulnerable pedestrians are shoved closer to dangerous Miami traffic.

Location is Coral Way, a designated scenic (but apparently unsafe for pedestrians) corridor. 

WHAT KIND OF GOVERNMENT BLOCKS PEOPLE WITH DISABILITIES

FROM ACCESSING A SAVE, PAVED GREENWAY PATH?

Here’s an idea. An exclusionary one. 

Let’s pave miles of safe pedestrian trails ideal for wheelchair users. 

But let’s end the sidewalk before it connects to them. 

This is in Coral Gables just west of Segovia traffic circle at Granada Golf Course.

City official claims Miami-Dade County is approving a traffic circle that will fix all of this.

Looks to use like a simple few feet of concrete or asphalt would fill the gap and provide access.

Check out the image below.

Super-inviting, safe pathway.

Two blocks from Coral Gables downtown.

But this entire intersection, zero ways to access the path from city sidewalks -- if you use a wheelchair for mobility.

NARROW BUS STOP

WITH NO WHEELCHAIR ACCESS TO ADJACENT PAVED PATH

Cruel and unusual bus stop in Coral Gables.

This problem festers on Coral Way at South Greenway.

There are miles of smooth paved pathways along Granada Golf Course are a few feet away.

But the bus stop pad ends in a cliff that prevents wheelchair users from accessing the paths.

A city official tells my Miami-Dade County is fixing the issue.

But I think that might be a crosswalk, not an accessible link to the safe, paved paths.

HAPPY HOLIDAYS...FROM PLUS URBIA DESIGN

WE HAVE MOVED TO THE HISTORIC CORAL WAY CORRIDOR

We're still in the heart of Miami on a main bus line.

Minutes from Brickell, Downtown, Little Havana, Coconut Grove, Coral Gables and the Health District -- we're on the edge of the picturesque Shenandoah neighborhood...where our founders live in a beautifully restored house.

Our Communications Leader and his wife also life in Shenandoah in a nearly century-old Spanish Mission style home lovingly preserved and updated for wheelchair access.