Traffic alert: New speed limit on city streets. Check South Florida road issues

Pinecrest is reducing the speed limit on several city streets as of Monday, Aug. 17.

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The goal, according to Pinecrest police, is “to help create safer streets for drivers, pedestrians and cyclists.”

The speed limit will be reduced from 35 mph to 30 mph on portions of the following streets:

• Southwest 72nd Avenue
• Southwest 77th Avenue (Palmetto Road)
• Southwest 67th Avenue (Ludlam Road)
• Southwest 120th Street (Montgomery Drive)
• Southwest 124th Street (Chapman Field Drive)
• Killian Drive

Changes on Miami Gardens Drive

Some road construction in Miami-Dade County started Friday, Aug. 14, with the shutdown of lanes along a stretch of busy Miami Gardens Drive. And that won’t be ending soon, with construction expected to squeeze traffic on the major road for months and months.

The inside travel lanes of Northwest 183rd Street between 12th and 14th avenues will be “continuously closed for about one year,” the Florida Department of Transportation said in a Facebook post.

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The work is near Florida’s Turnpike, which passes through the corridor with no entrance or exit ramps at Miami Gardens Drive. But Miami Gardens Drive is a heavily traveled corridor to and from Interstate 95 and Aventura to the east.

The construction and lane closings started at 5 a.m. Friday, and FDOT says drivers should “allow extra time when traveling through the area.”

To avoid the stretch, alternates are Ives Dairy Road or Hallandale Beach Boulevard to the north and 167th Street to the South.

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Here are other road closings across South Florida that drivers should know:

Road construction in South Florida

• Lanes will close along Atlantic Boulevard at Lyons Road in Coconut Creek on through Thursday from 8 a.m. to 5:30 p.m., and at night into the morning from 6:30 p.m. to 7 a.m. On Fridays and Saturdays, lanes will close from 8:30 a.m. to 6:30 p.m.
• On Broward Boulevard between Northwest 33rd Avenue and Southwest 29th Avenue near Fort Lauderdale, lanes will close daily from 9:30 a.m. to 3:30 p.m. and nightly into the early morning from 7:30 p.m. to 8 a.m. from through Thursday.
• Up to two lanes in each direction on University Drive near North Perry Airport in the Pembroke Pines and Miramar areas will close through Friday from 7:30 p.m. until 5:30 a.m.
• Lanes along the bridge at Old Griffin Road and North 58th Avenue in the Dania Beach and Davie area will close as the bridge is restored, but at least one lane in each direction will remain open at all times.
• Up to two lanes of northbound and southbound I-95 from Northwest 8th to 29th streets will close through Friday, Aug. 21, from 9 p.m. to 5:30 a.m.