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Neighborhood Update

LRA Committee Reports

PUBLIC WORKS Bayview Drive Bike Buffer
A request was made for funding to add a buffer stripe along
The County has updated the eastbound curve sign on NE 55th Bayview Drive between NE 52nd Street and NE 60th Street
Place. An update to the westbound curve sign for the area to reduce the vehicle travel lane width and provide a much-
where NE 31st Avenue and NE 55th Place merge is expected needed buffer for the bike lane (and the area where many
to be completed within the next few weeks. The city is in the residents walk). The project is out for bids and work should be
process of scheduling the repainting of the centerline road completed in 2022.
markings in the area referenced above.
Bayview Drive North of Commercial
The property owners on the southwest side of the curve have A project has been requested of the City’s Transportation and
been contacted and asked to prune their vegetation that is Mobility Department to develop a needs list/scope that would
encroaching into the city road right-of-way, so as to improve allow for the budget process to commence for planning and
the vision corridor for traffic navigating the NE 31st Avenue / design of traffic calming and mobility improvements on
Ne 55th Street curve. Bayview Drive between Commercial Boulevard and US1 /

There was a water-leak repair made in the 5500 block of NE Federal Highway (similar to the current improvements
28th Avenue and the pavement repair is pending. underway to the south). This is currently under discussion and
not in the current work plan, but once completed, it can then
Two areas of pavement base have subsided and the be submitted as a CIP request for a future year’s funding.
pavement has failed. The failure on South Bayview Drive at
NE 52nd Street has been filled and repaving is pending. US1 Resurfacing Project
A second failure has occurred at the intersection of NE (US 1 - Commercial Boulevard to Pompano Beach)
55th Street and NE 31st Avenue. This repair has not yet The Florida Department of Transportation is in the preliminary
commenced and the Committee follow-up continues. stages of a future resurfacing project on US1, from
Commercial Boulevard north into Pompano Beach. The Project
Continuing follow-up with the city’s street sweeping and will mainly involve repaving. Construction is anticipated to
median maintenance efforts has yielded some improvements begin in summer 2023.
and our efforts continue.
Commercial Boulevard Resurfacing Project
TRAFFIC/SECURITY The Florida Department of Transportation is in the preliminary
stages of design of a resurfacing project on Commercial
LPR Cameras continue to be monitored by the City of Fort Boulevard between Powerline Road and SR A1A. Construction
Lauderdale Police Department. Periodic operational and is anticipated to begin in 2024.
maintenance items continue to be addressed. An additional
(fifth) LPR Camera has been added to improve coverage of Bayview Drive Bike Lanes (NE 60th Street to US1)
Bayview Drive. If this additional camera delivers improved A City Capital Improvement Program funding request was
results, we can then pursue various means of securing the programmed for FY25 to complete the design of adding bike
additional three cameras. lanes between NE 60th Street and US1 with the construction
anticipated to commence in FY27. The work will include
milling, resurfacing, restriping, and widening a section of
FOR THE LONG TERM sidewalk on the north side approach to US1 to complete the
connection of bike lanes from US1 to Sunrise Boulevard along
Bayview Drive Mobility Project
The Transportation & Mobility Department is managing a Bayview Drive.
project on Bayview Drive just south of The Landings to add Broward Surtax Transportation Survey
sidewalks where they are missing and to install traffic calming What should Broward’s Transportation funding be used
elements between Commercial Boulevard and Sunrise for? Share your opinion with Broward County through the
Boulevard. Construction has commenced and is expected to survey link below and help influence what your Penny for
continue through January 2023. Transportation will be used for. Participating in this survey

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