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Traffic alert: Westbound Sunny Isles Beach bridge is broken and closed for repairs

The westbound portion of the Sunny Isles Beach bridge, also known as NE 163rd Street bridge, is malfunctioning and has closed for repairs.
The westbound portion of the Sunny Isles Beach bridge, also known as NE 163rd Street bridge, is malfunctioning and has closed for repairs.

The westbound portion of the Sunny Isles Beach drawbridge on Friday is malfunctioning and has closed for repairs.

The shutdown is causing heavy delays in the area. Drivers should seek alternate routes.

All westbound traffic on the Northeast 163rd Street bridge is being diverted while crews make repairs, according to Sunny Isles Beach police. The Intracoastal bridge connects Sunny Isles Beach with North Miami Beach.

“Please seek an alternate route such as the William Lehman or Broad Causeway,” police wrote on Twitter.

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Michelle Marchante covers the pulse of healthcare in South Florida and also the City of Coral Gables. Before that, she covered the COVID-19 pandemic, hurricanes, crime, education, entertainment and other topics in South Florida for the Herald as a breaking news reporter. She recently won first place in the health reporting category in the 2025 Sunshine State Awards for her coverage of Steward Health’s bankruptcy. An investigative series about the abrupt closure of a Miami heart transplant program led Michelle and her colleagues to be recognized as finalists in two 2024 Florida Sunshine State Award categories. She also won second place in the 73rd annual Green Eyeshade Awards for her consumer-focused healthcare stories and was part of the team of reporters who won a 2022 Pulitzer Prize for the Miami Herald’s breaking news coverage of the Surfside building collapse. Michelle graduated with honors from Florida International University and was a 2025 National Press Foundation Covering Workplace Mental Health fellow and a 2020-2021 Poynter-Koch Media & Journalism fellow.  Support my work with a digital subscription
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