19 rare palms win battle for life in traffic-calming flap

Written by Miami Today on August 29, 2017

A move to save a grouping of palm trees in a residential area of Coral Way led to some rather critical comments from a Miami city commissioner about extreme traffic engineering standards that water down the benefits from traffic-calming projects.

It’s particularly troublesome in a growing city where cut-through traffic – speeding cars using residential streets as shortcuts to avoid congested thoroughfares – threatens the safety of pedestrians, pets and other motorists…To read the full story click here