US-1 traffic study methodology

Speaking for Last Stand, said the LOS task force failed to do the thorough expert review directed last year, and asked the board to reconvene the task force with the citizen committee's concerns and resolve the Stock Island supplemental runs question.

A Sugarloaf Key resident working with Last Stand, urged adoption of a planning-time-index methodology per the current Highway Capacity Manual and hybrid GPS-based speed data.

President of the Key Deer Protection Alliance, called the study fundamentally flawed for excluding construction, school-zone, drawbridge, and signal delays, and urged reconvening the task force with public comment and delaying the next study to 2028.

Supported Last Stand and the 24 organizations calling for a more honest traffic study, and questioned rising accident rates since speed limit increases.

Speaking for the Sugarloaf Shores Property Owners Association, explained with slides how excluded delays create "artificial speed" and argued uniform reserve-capacity adjustments across dissimilar intersections make no sense.

Said Florida Bay Forever signed the Last Stand letter and supports updating the outdated methodology.

Speaking for Big Pine United and citing 32 years on an Ohio MPO, said delays from school buses, construction, and accidents cannot be ignored and urged reconvening the task force.

A Big Pine Key resident and LOS study group participant, recounted a 2-hour, 39 mph average drive from Big Pine to the county line and questioned how much speeding is implicitly tolerated to justify the LOS results.

A Key Largo resident who echoed the concerns of Last Stand and urged the commission to update the study guidelines and protocols.