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Miami Lakes urges county action as adaptive signal system remains offline
Summary
At a town hall, Miami Lakes officials said signal hardware installed years ago remains unoperational because the county controls the software and recently changed vendors, and the town’s police and staff described repeated, sometimes hardware-related outages that disrupt morning traffic.
Miami Lakes officials told residents on Jan. 14 that fixes to recurring traffic-signal failures depend largely on county and state partners, not the town alone, and urged stronger intergovernmental pressure to reduce outage times.
Town leaders opened the meeting by explaining the legal framework that limits municipal control over traffic engineering. Deputy Town Attorney Lorenzo Cobiella summarized the situation: municipal ownership of roads does not mean full operational authority. "Anything that is engineering in nature...is under the jurisdiction of the county," Cobiella said, describing interlocal agreements and FDOT guidelines that the…
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