Miami DUers...street question.

[Tripper11]

I listen to Randi Rhodes and we get the traffic reports over the stream, which can be cool to listen to, but what the hell is up with Ohkachokee (sp? spelled phonetically) Blvd???

There's always a wreck there or something messing up the commuters day.

[YNGW]

1. Okeechobee Road

I grew up in Tampa, but am familiar w/ some Miami streets.

Okeechobee Raod is Hwy 27 running out of Miami NW to the Turnpike. You just got a lot of people leaving Miami heading out that way to go home driving too fast and not watching where they're going. Doesn't every big city have "those roads" that always seems to have accidents?

[Tripper11]

2. OH yeah for sure....

but I guess because the name stuck out and I heard it all the time I figured there might be some kind of weird anomoly.
Thanks YNGW

[YNGW]

4. Florida

If you look at a map of Florida, the big lake towards the bottom is Lake Okeechobee. You probably already knew that.

That whole area just west of Downtown Miami and out towards the Turnpike has boomed in the last 10 years. Typically, they never build enough roads to handle the traffic until it's too late. Maybe someone from Miami will chime in, but I'm guessing there's a bunch of road construction going on. When I lived in Atlanta (another city where they *never* quit working on the roads), all the wrecks seems to happen around the constuction areas, which in Atlanta is every damn road in the city.

:)

[gator_in_Ontario]

3. Okeechobee Blvd and I-95 are a nightmare from WPB

(where randi is) south to Miami. There is another Okeechobee road that runs from Ft. Pierce west to Okeechobee (city).

[Scurrilous]

5. Okeechobee Road...

...is under construction from 36th Street to the Palmetto Expressway (SR 826). Anyone who drives in Miami knows that any type of road construction causes massive rubbernecking. The rubberneckers are fascinated with road building equipment and tend to take their eyes off the road and hit things.