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To Date this is still a Major Safety Concern:
Miami Dade County School David Fairchild Elementary 1761
October 23, 2008 2:41:13 PM EDT
"please be advised that the Public Works Department (PWD) staff again conducted a field evaluation of the area and also met with Mr. William Kinney, School Principal. As a result, PWD offers the following comments:
PWD staff noted that the school has no on-site loading area for parents to pick-up or drop-off students. Due to this, many years ago, PWD designated SW 45th St. between SW 57th Ave. and SW 58th Ave. as a “limited access” roadway permitting westbound movement during arrival and dismissal times so parents could use the north side of SW 45th St. as the pick-up or drop-off area. Parents may also use the SW 58th Ave. school frontage to parallel park. However, this is obviously inadequate, as parents park along other roadways in the area near the school to the detriment of the neighborhood. To prohibit this, PWD has over the years installed “No Stopping or Standing” signs through the area; though, this tends to be ineffective, since parents have no where else to pick-up their children. Furthermore, staff found that some parents illegally angle park along the east side of SW 58th Ave. north of SW 45th St. Parents also park inside the public park to the north on SW 58th Ave. as additional alternate parking. This is due again to inadequate loading/unloading areas for the school.
At this point due to the limited road frontage and lack of adequate onsite facilities of the school, PWD cannot assist in any additional way to resolve your concern. However, by copy of this e-mail, it is requested that Mr. John Dibenedetto, District Director of Hazard, Safety, & Environment Division, MDCPS, review the current loading operations and facilities of the school to see what MDCPS may be able to do to alleviate the significant deficiency in passenger vehicle loading/unloading at the school which is causing this adverse impact to the neighborhood.
In addition, the survey revealed that this school has adequate and sufficient school related signs and pavement markings, and that all signs are visible to the motoring public, as required.
By copy of this e-mail, it is requested that Mr. Robert L. Parker, Director of Miami Dade County Police Department, provide selective enforcement to ensure compliance with the school speed zone during the arrival and dismissal times of the school, as well as the existing posted “No Stopping or Standing” and “No Angle Parking” signs around the school, as needed.
Should you have any questions or need additional information, please contact Mr.Jon Orue at 305-375-2030 or via e-mail at orue@miamidade.gov.
Harvey L. Bernstein Educational Facilities Administrator Traffic Engineering Division
Miami-Dade County Public Works Department
111 NW 1st Street • Suite 1510 • Miami, Florida 33128-1970
305-375-1874 Phone 305-372-6064 Fax
http://www.miamidade.gov/pubworks/
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