{"id":256452,"date":"2026-05-03T10:15:22","date_gmt":"2026-05-03T10:15:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/256452\/"},"modified":"2026-05-03T10:15:22","modified_gmt":"2026-05-03T10:15:22","slug":"another-i-95-diamond-will-be-rough","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/256452\/","title":{"rendered":"Another I-95 \u2018diamond\u2019 will be rough"},"content":{"rendered":"

Sometimes, new ideas bring solutions. Other times, they bring chaos, aggravation and frustration.<\/p>\n

As someone who has lived with the crisscross diverging diamond interchange (DDI) in Boca Raton at Glades Road and I-95 for the better part of two years, I feel qualified to suggest that whoever at the FDOT decided to adopt the same redesign for I-95 and Broward Boulevard should be fired.<\/p>\n

Don\u2019t do it, Fort Lauderdale. It\u2019s not all it\u2019s cracked up to be, I assure you.<\/p>\n

The crisscrossing of driving lanes will be especially frustrating for drivers whose destinations require them to go west from the east side of Fort Lauderdale, and vice versa.<\/p>\n

Drivers will discover that the design causes unavoidable backups in both directions on Broward Boulevard, plus confusing and hazardous lane changes to avoid traffic flowing from the opposite direction. Please reconsider adopting this flawed design.<\/p>\n

\u2014\u00a0Maida Kahn, Boca Raton<\/p>\n

Too many \u2018Trumplicans\u2019<\/p>\n

I usually let my wife write the letters because I feel it\u2019s just whistling in the wind, but the letter to the editor from Gail Olarsch really got me going (\u201cBlind loyalty to Trump<\/a>,\u201d Letters, April 25).<\/p>\n

I have been a Republican all my life and have been heartsick and infuriated with the state of what was formerly known as the Republican Party \u2014 and is now the Trumplican Party.<\/p>\n

Every day, Trumplicans heap fearful blind loyalty on this megalomaniac with a raised fist, hoping, regardless of harm to our people and country, to save their positions and make money to boot.<\/p>\n

In his letter, Richard Klitzberg claims that Trump\u2019s \u201cability to negotiate is legendary, reminding us of his famous \u201cThe Art of the Deal\u201d (\u201cTrump, a force of nature<\/a>,\u201d Letters, April 25).<\/p>\n

I\u2019m a native New Yorker, a businessman for more than 40 years, and I can tell you that Trump\u2019s \u201cArt of the Deal\u201d was not by negotiation, but underhanded retaliation (he was convicted of falsifying business records, you\u2019ll recall).<\/p>\n

We are told that \u201cno president other than Trump dared challenge Iran, and when he said enough, he struck with power and speed never previously exhibited, and in six weeks Iran was bloodied and battered into submission.\u201d Submission, indeed.<\/p>\n

We are still fighting. We\u2019re still trying to negotiate. No real Republicans are willing to stop the deterioration of our nation now, or are willing to be held accountable if and when the \u201cKing\u201d falls.<\/p>\n

\u2014\u00a0Walter Woda, Delray Beach<\/p>\n

Listen to the people<\/p>\n

My husband and I request that Fort Lauderdale slow down and do a feasibility study to assess the viability of Tower 101 (101 N.E. Third Ave.) as its next City Hall.<\/p>\n

Our biggest concern is fiscal responsibility. In a time of uncertainty, we don\u2019t want basic services to be cut for residents due to extreme budget constraints ahead.<\/p>\n

Making such a sizable financial decision as this without gathering opinions of your constituents is not doing the job you were elected to do.<\/p>\n

\u2014\u00a0Ken Schmidt and Bill Russell, Oakland Park<\/p>\n

Don\u2019t mortgage our future<\/p>\n

The proposed new City Hall is a financial boondoggle that will only get worse if it moves forward. An estimated $725 million over 30 years is outrageous, and the term sheet and financing structure are even more troubling.<\/p>\n

There\u2019s no reason to push Fort Lauderdale to the edge of a fiscal cliff for a project the budget cannot support, especially when much cheaper alternatives have not been fully explored.<\/p>\n

Votes like this make our city less affordable. Stop mortgaging our future for vanity projects.<\/p>\n

\u2014\u00a0John E. Rodstrom III, Fort Lauderdale<\/p>\n

Please submit a letter to the editor by email to\u00a0letterstotheeditor@sunsentinel.com<\/a> or fill out the online form below. Letters may be up to 200 words and must be signed with your email address, city of residence and daytime phone number for verification. Letters will be edited for clarity and length.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Sometimes, new ideas bring solutions. Other times, they bring chaos, aggravation and frustration. As someone who has lived…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":256453,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[17],"tags":[249,251,250,114,1205,482],"class_list":["post-256452","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-fort-lauderdale","tag-fort-lauderdale","tag-fort-lauderdale-headlines","tag-fort-lauderdale-news","tag-latest-headlines","tag-letters-to-the-editor","tag-opinion"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/256452","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=256452"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/256452\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/256453"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=256452"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=256452"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=256452"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}