AROUND TOWN
TRANSPORTATION REPORT
West Palm Beach will present the results and recommendations of its months-long study to city transportation. Mayor Jeri Muoio, Alta Planning + Design, and urban transportation expert Gabe Klein will present the downtown mobility study on Tuesday in a public session at City Hall from 6 to 8 p.m.
The initiative was undertaken to find ways to solve the city’s worsening road crunch, by examining driving, parking, walking, biking and road design. The overall study included research on alternatives for the Okeechobee Boulevard Corridor, downtown parking management and transportation demand management. To learn more about the City’s mobility study, visit www.wpbmobility.com, or email: mobility@wpb.org.
BRIDGE CLOSING
The westbound lane of Southern Boulevard Bridge will be closed nightly from 9:30 to 6 a.m., starting Monday and through Friday. Flaggers will maintain two-way traffic in the eastbound lane — one direction at a time — as crews install traffic signals, a concrete barrier wall at the northeast corner of Southern Boulevard and Flagler Drive and re-stripe a portion of the bridge and intersection. In addition, there will be intermittent lane closures at Flagler Drive and Southern Boulevard with flaggers directing traffic during this time.
At the end of the week, traffic will shift to the west on Flagler Drive, north of Southern Boulevard. This will eliminate the dedicated left-turn lane from southbound Flagler Drive to eastbound Southern Boulevard. Southbound traffic on Flagler Drive will be able to make left turns from the southbound travel lane.
NEW OXBRIDGE HEAD
Oxbridge Academy selected Ralph Maurer, headmaster of The International School Nido de Aguilas in Santiago, Chile, to serve as head of the school, effective July 2018. Maurer will succeed John Klemme, who announced earlier this year that he has chosen to return to his former position as an English teacher at the school. Maurer will join Oxbridge as head of school-elect beginning January 2018 to become familiar with the school’s culture, faculty and student body, under Klemme’s leadership.
Maurer’s appointment comes after a worldwide search that attracted more than 100 inquiries from prospective candidates. The International School Nido de Aguilas, an independent English-language school, consists of 1,750 students from pre-K through 12th grades. Previously, Maurer was a faculty member and administrator in the Freeman School of Business at Tulane University, where he was in charge of the entrepreneurship curriculum.
Raised in Florida, he earned a bachelor’s of science degree in communications studies from Northwestern University, a master’s of business administration from the University of Florida, and a Ph.D. in management science and engineering from Stanford University.