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One of the nice things also about Wilton Drive being turned into two lanes is that something is finally being done about the drivers on Wilton Drive who speed as fast as they can carelessly burning up gasoline and contributing to Global Warming. Considering that gas is almost $3. a gallon, everyone might want to consider slowing down for their budget, if not also for the environment and the safety of pedestrians and people on bicycles who are not causing the prices to go up at the pumps because they don't use gasoline to get around town.
Since South Florida is at ground zero for the affects of rising sea levels due to Global Warming, it's seems a bit foolish to drive at high speeds where more fuel is burned up putting more carbon emissions into the atmosphere that is causing the earth to retain the heat that is melting the ice caps and putting large parts of this area at risk for flooding, even on days when it's not raining, because of the rising high tide levels.
Some homes and apartment complexes are already having flooding at high tides in their yards, some people had flooding in their homes and first floor apartments during Hurricane Irma along the rivers because of high tides going over the seawalls and 6 million dollars of city money that comes from tax payers is being spent in the super wealthy Las Olas islands area that's going towards putting in valves to close off rainwater drains that seawater is coming up through during high tides and flooding the streets there. There are also going to be pumps installed to hopefully drain out the water before it floods houses there.
The cities are doing the best they can to get people out of their cars by installing bike lanes and creating more pedestrian friendly areas but most of the people in this area of the country won't get out of their cars to walk somewhere except to the door of their gym or a store, won't ride bikes even a few blocks to run an errand and won't slow down and follow the speed limits and many of them seem to think that throwing their plastic and glass bottles and beverage cans, along with other trash on the roadways here, is going to result in someone else picking it up to recycle it.
Funny that they don't think the consequences of their abuse of the environment won't come back to bite them as this area is surrounded by rivers and canals that one can see filled to nearly the top of the seawalls during high tides because once the sea levels get to the point where they regularly cause flooding along the rivers and canals, massive amounts of people along those waterways will put their homes and condos on the market to get out of here and the property values will drop because who wants to live in a house or apartment that gets regularly flooded and since the land here is so flat, who can predict where the water going over the seawalls will stop in the surrounding neighborhoods and if those waters will also flood major roadways?
Miami Beach has shown that roadways can be built up higher to avoid flooding on them at present sea levels but they raised the property taxes in the entire city to do so which causes increases in rents when the landlords have to pay more in property taxes and what happens when the sea levels go even higher? The roadways can only be built so high and putting up all the roadways on bridges would be too cost prohibitive for tax payers to pay cities to build and maintain.
And when people stop buying winter home real estate here, which fuels the economy this area is largely dependent on since Fort Lauderdale can no longer really be considered much of a "resort", there go the the furniture store jobs, the renovation jobs, the jobs at the stores that sell new kitchen cabinetry and new flooring, restaurant jobs, etc.
County officials like to pat themselves on the back for the "increase" in tourism here but a large majority of that increase in "tourism" is simply people flying into here and paying the fees to get on cruise ships taking the tourists to where they actually spend the bulk of their money at the ports on the Caribbean islands where the cruise ships dock.
You'll see lots of new stores for second home owners for shopping for items for a vacation home in this area but not much of an increase in restaurants, with the exception of fast food ones for locals, and you won't see many new entertainment venues that tourists like to go to in resorts.
A large number of the nightclubs, particularly for straight people, have closed down here and haven't been replaced with anything except for clubs where men go to watch strippers. Many people I know have commented that they won't go to Fort Lauderdale Beach anymore because it's full of people who look like and act like loud thugs and they prefer to pay the fees that some hotels charge to use their pool areas that helps to keep out the lowlife element that crowds the beaches here now.
Some older people here look at the statistics of scientists stating how high the sea levels are going up by 2050 and say they're not too worried because they most likely won't be alive by then but they don't seem to fathom that the sea levels are going up NOW and that the statistics of what the sea levels will be at in 2050 are because of the steady current rise in sea levels going on at present and not because of some sort of mass polar melting in 2049 that is going to cause some drastic rise in the sea levels in 2050.
So I think the City of Wilton Manors should be applauded for trying to slow down traffic, working to bring more pedestrians to shop by widening the sidewalks that will also allow for more restaurants to put tables outside and constructing areas for new landscape plantings that eat up carbon dioxide from the atmosphere.
Last edited by HotandHumid; 03-30-2019 at 02:44 PM..
So 3 cars "speeding" burns more fuel than 35 cars idling in a bottleneck? Enjoy your stroll with truck/bus diesel fumes filling the air. Deliveries to those shops will really be fun when the truck blocks traffic in the road.
Next thread: Traffic is terrible in Wilton Manors, the fumes are awful and the stores have nobody in them!
One of the nice things also about Wilton Drive being turned into two lanes is that something is finally being done about the drivers on Wilton Drive who speed as fast as they can carelessly burning up gasoline and contributing to Global Warming. Considering that gas is almost $3. a gallon, everyone might want to consider slowing down for their budget, if not also for the environment and the safety of pedestrians and people on bicycles who are not causing the prices to go up at the pumps because they don't use gasoline to get around town.
Since South Florida is at ground zero for the affects of rising sea levels due to Global Warming, it's seems a bit foolish to drive at high speeds where more fuel is burned up putting more carbon emissions into the atmosphere that is causing the earth to retain the heat that is melting the ice caps and putting large parts of this area at risk for flooding, even on days when it's not raining, because of the rising high tide levels.
Some homes and apartment complexes are already having flooding at high tides in their yards, some people had flooding in their homes and first floor apartments during Hurricane Irma along the rivers because of high tides going over the seawalls and 6 million dollars of city money that comes from tax payers is being spent in the super wealthy Las Olas islands area that's going towards putting in valves to close off rainwater drains that seawater is coming up through during high tides and flooding the streets there. There are also going to be pumps installed to hopefully drain out the water before it floods houses there.
The cities are doing the best they can to get people out of their cars by installing bike lanes and creating more pedestrian friendly areas but most of the people in this area of the country won't get out of their cars to walk somewhere except to the door of their gym or a store, won't ride bikes even a few blocks to run an errand and won't slow down and follow the speed limits and many of them seem to think that throwing their plastic and glass bottles and beverage cans, along with other trash on the roadways here, is going to result in someone else picking it up to recycle it.
Funny that they don't think the consequences of their abuse of the environment won't come back to bite them as this area is surrounded by rivers and canals that one can see filled to nearly the top of the seawalls during high tides because once the sea levels get to the point where they regularly cause flooding along the rivers and canals, massive amounts of people along those waterways will put their homes and condos on the market to get out of here and the property values will drop because who wants to live in a house or apartment that gets regularly flooded and since the land here is so flat, who can predict where the water going over the seawalls will stop in the surrounding neighborhoods and if those waters will also flood major roadways?
Miami Beach has shown that roadways can be built up higher to avoid flooding on them at present sea levels but they raised the property taxes in the entire city to do so which causes increases in rents when the landlords have to pay more in property taxes and what happens when the sea levels go even higher? The roadways can only be built so high and putting up all the roadways on bridges would be too cost prohibitive for tax payers to pay cities to build and maintain.
And when people stop buying winter home real estate here, which fuels the economy this area is largely dependent on since Fort Lauderdale can no longer really be considered much of a "resort", there go the the furniture store jobs, the renovation jobs, the jobs at the stores that sell new kitchen cabinetry and new flooring, restaurant jobs, etc.
County officials like to pat themselves on the back for the "increase" in tourism here but a large majority of that increase in "tourism" is simply people flying into here and paying the fees to get on cruise ships taking the tourists to where they actually spend the bulk of their money at the ports on the Caribbean islands where the cruise ships dock.
You'll see lots of new stores for second home owners for shopping for items for a vacation home in this area but not much of an increase in restaurants, with the exception of fast food ones for locals, and you won't see many new entertainment venues that tourists like to go to in resorts.
A large number of the nightclubs, particularly for straight people, have closed down here and haven't been replaced with anything except for clubs where men go to watch strippers. Many people I know have commented that they won't go to Fort Lauderdale Beach anymore because it's full of people who look like and act like loud thugs and they prefer to pay the fees that some hotels charge to use their pool areas that helps to keep out the lowlife element that crowds the beaches here now.
Some older people here look at the statistics of scientists stating how high the sea levels are going up by 2050 and say they're not too worried because they most likely won't be alive by then but they don't seem to fathom that the sea levels are going up NOW and that the statistics of what the sea levels will be at in 2050 are because of the steady current rise in sea levels going on at present and not because of some sort of mass polar melting in 2049 that is going to cause some drastic rise in the sea levels in 2050.
So I think the City of Wilton Manors should be applauded for trying to slow down traffic, working to bring more pedestrians to shop by widening the sidewalks that will also allow for more restaurants to put tables outside and constructing areas for new landscape plantings that eat up carbon dioxide from the atmosphere.
So 3 cars "speeding" burns more fuel than 35 cars idling in a bottleneck? Enjoy your stroll with truck/bus diesel fumes filling the air. Deliveries to those shops will really be fun when the truck blocks traffic in the road.
Next thread: Traffic is terrible in Wilton Manors, the fumes are awful and the stores have nobody in them!
A discussion of the "greenness" of the Wilton Drive project aside, when completed, the work will make the Drive look considerably more appealing to shoppers & visitors. It amazes me how unattractive the Drive is now. Every cheap suburban commercial strip in America resembles the Drive's profile. Nondescript buildings lined up behind and surrounded by asphalt parking lots. Until the work is done, I'll skip the Drive & take guests immediately to Las Olas to stroll, shop & eat. However, I'll never skip Rosies, the exception to the rule.
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