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I'm beeen away from the area for a few years & was by the Palm Aire development west of Powerline & south of Atlantic today: what is going on with all the digging on one of the old golf courses? It looks like some one is digging up a huge amount of dirt and making lots of large ponds. I suspect it will be beautful when done but that sure is a lot of diigging on what looks like all 18 holes.
As Fort Lauderdale airport grows, so do hassles for neighbors, motorists
July 21, 2012|By Ken Kaye, Sun Sentinel
Airport expansion might help meet future demands but for now it's creating hassles for thousands of residents and motorists.
For at least the next year, drivers on Interstate 95 will be dodging trucks delivering dirt to Fort Lauderdale-Hollywood International Airport— 980 times a day — for the south runway project.
Beginning Monday, motorists also will have to wait a few more minutes at rail crossings between Fort Lauderdale and central Miami-Dade County, because two extra trains per day will haul fill material to the airport.
Meanwhile, people living near the airport will be dealing with dust and noise, as 25,000 tons of dirt are unloaded each day.
"We're building a runway, and there are going to be regional impacts," said Greg Meyer, spokesman for the Fort Lauderdale airport. "We're doing what we can to minimize them."
Slow-moving trucks
The main problem: A fleet of fully loaded, slower-moving trucks will commingle with traffic on I-95, arriving from Pompano Beach north of the airport and central Miami-Dade County to the south.
Those from the north will connect with Interstate 595 and take U.S. 1 to Griffin Road. From the south, they will exit at Griffin Road and aim east to the construction site.
Meyer recommended motorists enter the airport by taking I-95 to I-595, and then heading east to the main airport entrance.
"If they do that, they shouldn't have that much contact with these trucks," he said.
The trucks started making runs to the airport two weeks ago from two rock pits: White Rock Quarries in Miami-Dade County and from a quarry in the Palm-Aire condominium complex in Pompano Beach, operated by The Ryan Companies.
The lake project is nearing the close of the airport work. Hauling has slowed down but they are still selling to others in the market. Unless Ryan Construction was to obtain a large order we most likely will not see the high volume of truck activity again that we did for a portion of the airport work. The lake project is over 60 percent done with the material to sell. The seeding around lakes 1, 3A and 3B should start 3rd week of May.
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