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Miami Lakes planners hear Vision Zero safety plan after USDOT grant, focus on 57th Avenue crash spike
Summary
Consultants told the Planning & Zoning Board the town used about $304,000 in U.S. DOT funds to develop a Vision Zero action plan and an updated Transportation Master Plan. The analysis found most collisions concentrated on 57th Avenue and proposed targeted countermeasures, public outreach and funding options; no formal action was taken.
Consultant Jesus Fuentes, speaking at a Planning & Zoning Board meeting, outlined a federally funded Vision Zero safety plan and an updated Transportation Master Plan designed to reduce traffic deaths and severe injuries in Miami Lakes. Fuentes said the town secured about $304,000 from the U.S. Department of Transportation for a comprehensive safety evaluation and used the same data to update the transportation master plan.
Fuentes said the work uses a safe‑system approach — “safer roads, safer cars, post care” — and presented crash data covering recent years. He said the analysis counted 783 crashes in the baseline period analyzed and highlighted that 57th Avenue is a persistent crash hotspot. “You have a concentration of the crashes on 57th Avenue,” Fuentes said, and he told the board that crash…
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