Seven years into what the Miami Herald once called “the mother of all highway construction projects,” six concrete arches are rising slowly — at a glacial pace, some might say — over the city’s skyline.
It’s Miami’s “Signature Bridge,” a soaring structure meant to signal the entranceway to world-famous South Beach before the MacArthur Causeway — and a bold declaration that Miami has arrived.
But seven years is a long time to tie up traffic downtown, and the finish line keeps moving. It was 2024 at first, then 2027 — now it’s 2029. If Miami drivers knew when this project began in 2019 that they were signing up for a decade’s worth of traffic jams, re-routing and ripped up roads, would they have agreed? Is it all going to be worth it?…