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Originally Posted by pauld315
The city of Miami might only be around 450,000 but when measuring the population of that area it is far more accurate to cite the population of the Miami Metropolitan Statistic Area which is over 6 Million. Contrast that with the population of The Villages Metropolitan Statistic Area published as being 123,996 in 2016. I have lived in a couple very fast growing areas in my life and I think they are doing a fairly good job here in planning comparatively. I am hoping that as businesses come into the southern areas it will help alleviate a lot of the current traffic issues. They could also do a lot to computerize the signals based on time of day, traffic demands etc which would help a lot.
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Agreed. As they’ve continued to develop, they’ve been widening many single lane roads into multiple lanes. What more do we need? A full fledged expressway down the middle? That’s not going to happen. The Villages MSA has a relatively low population. You will never see the kind of infrastructure here that you would in a huge metro market. I’m still not sure why folks in Lady Lake are worried that the people in Fenney and Soithern Oaks will be crowding the northern roadways. When it’s all said and done there will be plenty of retail space and restaurants to serve that end of the community.