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Lawsuit will point
out stretch work's negatives
EDITOR:
I was pleased to
read in your Dec. 22 issue that the Sierra Club and the Friends of the
Everglades had joined with the Florida Keys Citizens Coalition to ask
the federal court to stop the proposed waste of federal and state road
funds on the 18-Mile Stretch widening.
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By the state Department of Transportation's own
admission, hurricane evacuation time would not be reduced at all by this
new road.
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The wide northbound shoulder was considered too
dangerous in 1996 by DOT. Why is it safe now?
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The estimated cost of the U.S. 1 project has
mushroomed from $170 million to $280 million in just one year. How big
is this pork barrel?
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The new Jewfish Creek Bridge - 65 feet high, a
mile and a half long - would be higher and larger than it need be.
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There are environmental, endangered species, and
future and secondary impacts to the Keys that DOT has not addressed.
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Not considered is the fact that with the huge
growth in south Miami-Dade, we could easily face evacuation gridlock.
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Maintain the Stretch beauty; we don't need a
chain-link fence on both sides for 18 miles.
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Save lives, save money - use the proven safer,
more environmentally friendly Cape Cod road design.
Joan Barrow
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