New Year’s events will bring sweeping road closures to Miami Beach. What to know

To ring in the new year, the cities and villages of Miami Beach, Surfside and Bal Harbour will be holding several events, but with them comes several road closures that will bring mood-dampening traffic.

Beginning Wednesday, New Year’s Eve, the police departments of Miami Beach, Surfisde and Bal Harbour will be enacting temporary traffic patterns. The intermittent closures will last until late evening.

Here’s what streets will be affected :

87th Street and Collins Avenue

Large trucks will not be allowed through beginning at 10 a.m. Northbound lanes on Collins Avenue will be closed starting at noon. Traffic going north will be detoured west and redirected to Harding Avenue.

86th Street and Byron Avenue

Average-sized vehicles will be allowed through, but oversized vehicles, including commercial delivery trucks and passenger vans, will not be allowed to go north starting at 10 a.m.

85th Street and Byron/Harding Avenues

Law enforcement may periodically manually direct traffic along these streets, as officials are anticipating holiday congestion.

93rd Street and Collins Avenue

Large trucks will be restricted beginning at 10 a.m., and then all northbound lanes on Collins Avenue between 93rd and 96th Streets will be closed starting at noon.

Devoun Cetoute

Miami Herald

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Miami Herald Cops and Breaking News Reporter Devoun Cetoute covers a plethora of Florida topics, from breaking news to crime patterns. He was on the breaking news team that won a Pulitzer Prize in 2022. He’s a graduate of the University of Florida, born and raised in Miami-Dade. Theme parks, movies and cars are on his mind in and out of the office.