It was a long journey for the City realize the community vision for North Broadway. Started out as a lane elimination project for the Florida Department of Transportation arterial network, Broadway went through several iteration to accomplish a common goal of safe streets and multimodal improvements.
The Broadway Reimagined project is located between 25th Street and 45th Street. The surrounding land uses are residential, commercial, and institutional, and include connections to transit facilities, parks, and schools. The project corridor runs approximately one mile long and is entirely in the Florida Department of Transportation (FDOT) right-of-way (ROW). DDEC provided corridor planning, typical section development, funding strategy, visualization, and community engagement support. DDEC supported the City in securing grant funding for multiple phases of the project through the SunTrail program and State Road Modification (SRM) Program.
Implementing this lane repurposing would create a focus on enhancing safe mobility for all users, improving pedestrian and bicyclist access to the City’s and County’s broader transportation network, and connecting citizens to schools, parks, transit facilities, and commercial centers. This would be accomplished by upgrading the existing crosswalks, improving aesthetics and visibility, constructing ADA compliant ramps, providing shade trees, and reducing the travel speed along the corridor.
