Eventually, the addition of “express lanes” to Interstate 95 in Broward County should speed up the daily commute. But first, get ready for the slowdown.
Effective Tuesday, construction work to install two toll-charging express lanes has prompted a temporary speed limit reduction, from 65 miles per hour to 55, in South Broward. At first, the lower speed limit will be in place between the Miami-Dade-Broward county line and just north of the Griffin Road exit.
A few months from now, however, on a date yet to be determined, the lower speed limit will also be applied to much of central Broward, as the construction work creeps north. At that point, all of I-95 from Sunrise Boulevard south will be capped at 55 mph.
“If they’re doing it for the construction, it makes sense,” said driver Agnes Rodriguez of Pembroke Pines, who usually cruises I-95 at 70 mph. But Rodriguez added she’d vehemently oppose any effort to keep the speed limit at 55 after the road work is complete, because purposefully slowing down traffic has its own problems.
Source MiamiHerald.com
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