Miami's Signature Bridge Has The First Arch CONNECTED! | Year 3 Update

2022 update: • Miami's CRAZY $840 Mil...
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In this video, we check out the latest in the I-395/I-95/SR 836 project, which includes a Signature Bridge with six arches and a full reconstruction of I-395. This is the 2024 update comparing progress over the last year and as far back as 2022.
The project still has a budget of $840 million with estimated completion in 2027.

[@MrMarcantaya]

Every great city has an Iconic bridge. This will be a Miami icon

[@MrGriff305-j7s]

It's just another interesting feature near that beautiful performing arts center. It'll be walkable underneath.. pretty cool

[@xoxxobob61]

It would be more Iconic if this was over actual Water and not land.

[@dannyaguado]

Since I don't frequent to that side of town, I had no idea the arches were being constructed. Looks really cool! Thanks for keeping us informed!

[@raph485]

Miami is taking "one more lane bro" to another level.

[@commanderrussels2612]

yeah what's the end game here? they just dump the traffic into miami beach two lane roads lol?

[@MrGriff305-j7s]

You seem smart. I think you should find a walkable town in another country and go find bliss.

[@tonyodoul5679]

@@MrGriff305-j7s Nice cop-out, telling people to abandon their country instead of improving it (voting for politicans that agree with decent urbanism). Stupid. I think America should build more transit and less ugly concrete double decker highways instead, how about that. And I don't give a crap what Chyna is building.

[@Johnny.Fedora]

@@MrGriff305-j7s, walkable? The roads are going to be choked with traffic quickly, which is what always happens in Miami-Dade (the L.A. syndrome). The streets of Miami Beach are already choked with traffic, and South to Mid-Beach in gridlock for a lot of the day. You can walk in MB, but then, a lot of pedestrians get hit by cars, and now we have lots of electric motorized vehicles on the sidewalk (and the police don't care -- at all).

[@Distress.]

​@@commanderrussels2612 the end game is this removes a choke point at the 395/i95 interchange which used to have only 1 lane for each direction coming from a 4 lane highway. It also makes room for a park underneath

[@miamijohn6810]

Great updates. Would be cool to see the transformation of the Golden Glades interchange.

[@biglou9776]

But a Nightmare Monday thru Friday

[@RickJ04040]

Miami residents: We need more rail transit! Miami: Gotcha, here's a bridge for cars!

[@georgedoolittle9015]

Amazing content amazing how ambitious Miami is about being a World City no doubt and this is clearly a critical aspect in becoming just that😊

[@TammyStratoree]

Super great video!! Thanks for all these update vids. Your commentary is fantastic.

[@danlowe8684]

Nice work on the vid and commentary! Where is the casting yard for the arch sections? Do they barge them in? FYI, the finish they apply to the end product is called 'special surface finish' and is basically a mix of cement, pigment and bonding agent. It is tough as nails. Also, a cofferdam is used in a body of water. In this case it would simply be called 'sheet piling' or 'sheeting' for short. At 10:54, I assume that green truss is a crane being used to lift the concrete beams into place on the piers below?

[@JoelFrancoVlogs]

I was using the term FDOT uses in their monthly updates: “Arch 6 - sheet pile installation for foundation cofferdam” - strange but maybe because of the high water table? As for the arch sections, they are made not too far from the site (also 836 double deck bridge caps). I’ve got the coordinates here (25.7757523, -80.3177015) - roughly 7-8 miles west of the arches.

[@danlowe8684]

@@JoelFrancoVlogs Thank you!! And you are probably correct about the water table - I never thought of that! Again, great stuff!

[@JoelFrancoVlogs]

Sure thing. Thanks for watching!

[@scottyshipbuilder]

Love your drone footage 👍🏼

[@snowman7992]

Great update video - good work here

[@DroOnTheGO]

Great vid, nice aerial shots.

[@denkobommel9823]

Thank you very much, I love such projects

[@user-rx8yt3tm2f]

thanks for making these videos☝

[@MM-fe9mz]

Not sure that i95 i395 ramp is being replaced, are they just adding a direct connection to the express lanes like they've been building elsewhere

[@danmcclaren5436]

Its going to be so dark underneath all those lanes, there is no way its going to be a "welcoming park". They should have recessed all those lanes and added the park above it. Literally every great city has buried their highways to avoid splitting the city. Look at Barcelona, Boston, Philly, etc

[@TheViper6575]

Take a shot every time Joel says arch

[@JoelFrancoVlogs]

😂 alcohol poisoning

[@JohnHuitema]

lol we are all on the floor 🫠🫠🫠

[@EdwardM-t8p]

Is the state highway department converting the whole of Rt. A1A MacArthur Causeway to the Beach to I-395 too? Because this quadruple roadway highway looks tailor made for it! 🤔

[@vincefineartsephemera]

What’s the function of the arches ? Will they support anything ???

[@BrandtAbsolu]

AeStHeTiCs

[@MrGriff305-j7s]

The road span

[@Johnny.Fedora]

@@MrGriff305-j7s, look at 0:08. The arches don't touch the road deck. They don't support anything. They're simply art.

[@jessed3029]

What a complete waste of space and resources. Usually for projects like this but pointless

[@MrGriff305-j7s]

How so? What's wrong with aesthetic infrastructure? Have you seen the scale of China's infrastructure, or are you just uninformed regarding civilization?

[@tonyodoul5679]

@@MrGriff305-j7s screw china. Go live there if its so great. We all know you won't though.

[@SuperMnunez]

Says the man from Mississippi

[@EdwardM-t8p]

​@@MrGriff305-j7s The fact that it's just car infrastructure and they've condemned a 500 foot wide swath of land to build it? Other countries build lots of fantastic awe inspiring infrastructure for public transportation, airports and railways, not just highways.

[@MrGriff305-j7s]

@@EdwardM-t8p So I see you don't understand the purpose at all, but it's fun to complain on the internet. You're incredibly righteous.

[@7728abbott]

Great!

[@aguyinmia]

2027??🫣😭

[@Johnny.Fedora]

If everything goes perfectly between now and then.

[@Waltaere]

Joeel 😃

[@thedirtybubble9613]

Also, get rid of the MDX tollway and convert the expressway complex (Palmetto Expressway/Dolphin Expressway) into a I-395 loop connecting to I-95/Golden Glades so that the expressway is a loop around the city and let the USDOT manage it. Get rid of the tolls. MDX is a corrupt enterprise anyhow.

[@tedharrison4109]

I think those arches are a huge waste of money.

[@ViceCityNightcrawler]

It’s been too damn long, they need to finish already

[@thedirtybubble9613]

I fail to see how this will make Miami a more productive and overall "better" city. Waste of state funds.

[@MM-fe9mz]

Kinda scary that they built that one arch hanging over the road before the other side its suppose to meet up with has even been started. Do the arches actually support the bridge or are they purely decorative

[@thedirtybubble9613]

We need Metrorail expansion, not frivolous projects like this. Do better City of Miami and State of Florida.

[@imtired1696]

Year 3. LMFAO

[@andrewh88]

waste of money

[@MrGriff305-j7s]

How? It's creating another walkable urban landscape below it.

[@Johnny.Fedora]

@@MrGriff305-j7s, how do the arches contribute to that? They don't hold up the road. In fact, their piers take up ground space.

[@Distress.]

​@@Johnny.Fedorathe arches will take some of the load reducing rhe amount of pillars taking up space on the bottom.