From KeysNet.com:

Jerry Lorenz, the Tavernier-based state director of research for Audubon of Florida, voiced his view on the bridge (see the post below). "This one-mile bridge is not likely to accomplish the goals that Florida Bay really needs, but it will help," Lorenz said. "It's the first step in a much larger process."

Project designers with the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers have written that the $81 million Tamiami Trail project may increase the flow of fresh water into Taylor Slough and eastern Everglades National Park by 70 percent or more. Some of that water will reach Florida Bay, helping to reduce the bay's unnaturally high salinity level. Yet even the freshwater flow to be opened by the bridge remains far below historic flow levels in the River of Grass that created the South Florida ecosystem.

"It's like putting a Band-Aid on a surgical victim," Lorenz said. "In a sense, the importance of the bridge is as much symbolic as substantive. It shows we're finally doing something." Read the full article.