{"id":181074,"date":"2026-03-06T19:00:11","date_gmt":"2026-03-06T19:00:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/181074\/"},"modified":"2026-03-06T19:00:11","modified_gmt":"2026-03-06T19:00:11","slug":"miami-mayor-asks-drivers-for-patience-as-fpl-upgrades-prompt-street-closures","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/181074\/","title":{"rendered":"Miami mayor asks drivers for patience as FPL upgrades prompt street closures"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"text text--small text--normal text--primary\">Published:\u00a0March 6, 2026 at 1:39 PM<\/p>\n<p>Miami mayor asks drivers for patience during FPL upgrades <\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">MIAMI \u2014 Miami Mayor Elieen Higgins asked drivers for patience on Friday and for months to come as Florida Power &amp; Light\u2019s crews work on upgrades.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">The to-do list, which includes changing some 90 power poles in the city and adding miles of underground lines, will prompt temporary street closures. <\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">Higgins said the sacrifice of making way for the heavy machinery will pay off since the city will have a more reliable power grid during storms. <\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">\u201cWe all know storms are getting fiercer, and sometimes the power can go out, and these hardened lines means that is less likely to happen,\u201d Higgins said. <\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">Higgins was with Jack Eble, a spokesman with FPL, who said the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.fpl.com\/reliability\/storm-secure-underground-program.html\" target=\"_self\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" title=\"https:\/\/www.fpl.com\/reliability\/storm-secure-underground-program.html\">grid hardening initiative<\/a>\u2019s upgrades are funded by a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.psc.state.fl.us\/storm-protection-plans\" target=\"_self\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" title=\"https:\/\/www.psc.state.fl.us\/storm-protection-plans\">storm protection plan fund<\/a>, which customers contribute to monthly. <\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">\u201cFrom a load standpoint, it\u2019s rated for extreme wins, so this is part of the effort that we do throughout the state to build a stronger grid for our customers,\u201d Eble said. <\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">FPL and the city estimate the work will continue through September. <\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph b-article-body__copyright\">Copyright 2026 by WPLG Local10.com &#8211; All rights reserved.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" data-chromatic=\"ignore\" alt=\"Gabrielle Arzola\" class=\"c-image\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/https:\/\/author-service-images-prod-us-east-1.publishing.aws.arc.pub\/wplginc\/78673faa-0bcf-4b53-bb07-.jpeg\"  width=\"100\" height=\"100\"\/>Gabrielle Arzola<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph b-author-bio__author-description\">Gabrielle Arzola is an award-winning journalist and proud Miami native. For nearly a decade, she has reported across Florida, with previous stops in Gainesville and Tampa before returning home to cover the community she loves most.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" data-chromatic=\"ignore\" alt=\"Andrea Torres\" class=\"c-image\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/https:\/\/author-service-images-sandbox-us-east-1.publishing.aws.arc.pub\/wplginc\/83a8effa-fc87-4940-96.jpeg\"  width=\"100\" height=\"100\"\/>Andrea Torres<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph b-author-bio__author-description\">The Emmy Award-winning journalist joined the Local 10 News team in 2013. She wrote for the Miami Herald for more than 9 years and won a Green Eyeshade Award.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Published:\u00a0March 6, 2026 at 1:39 PM Miami mayor asks drivers for patience during FPL upgrades MIAMI \u2014 Miami&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":181075,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[123,125,124],"class_list":["post-181074","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-miami","tag-miami","tag-miami-headlines","tag-miami-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/181074","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=181074"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/181074\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/181075"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=181074"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=181074"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=181074"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}