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# Does Cohen Higgins Ever Go Outside?
- URL: https://friends-of-south-dade.ghost.io/does-cohen-higgins-ever-go-outside/
- Published: 2026-08-04T19:11:38.000Z
- Updated: 2026-08-04T19:11:38.000Z
- Author: Pete Kendall 

| Greetings!: You have to **wonder** whether Danielle Cohen Higgins **ever goes out onto our streets?**                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                        |
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| ![](https://images.benchmarkemail.com/client1805518/image19149472.jpeg)You probably received a political ad from her crowing about “Less Traffic. Safer Roads. Easier Commutes.” **Really? REALLY???** If you **drive up US 1** from Palmetto Bay, Cutler Bay, Homestead, or The Redland, you know that your commute into downtown can take **more than an hour each way.** The **same** goes for the **Palmetto Expressway or the Turnpike Extension.**Cohen Higgins is **microscopically focused on the newly opened SW 87th Avenue bridge in Palmetto Bay** as evidence of “easier commutes.” But Miami-Dade County’s own traffic study projected the opening of the bridge only results in an average reduction of **one minute per vehicle each way for the few cars who can use the bridge.** **Two minutes saved on a two-hour commute** does not alter the daily grind for South Dade residents. **It's hardly a transportation revolution worth boasting about.** More importantly, the bridge does not eliminate traffic. It **just moves a few cars onto already congested surface streets.** **And it does nothing to ease traffic on our overloaded expressways.** Cohen Higgins held a bridge ribbon cutting. But **a ribbon cutting is not proof of an easier commute.** Do we really want this kind of **failed leadership for the next 4 years?** **Friends of South Dade** |