Miami’s notoriously bad traffic has reached uncharted territory, with a jam of concrete cars now stretching underwater off the coast of Miami Beach.

Just under two dozen car-shaped artificial reefs are being lowered off the coast of South Beach, between 4th and 5th Street this week. The reason — to create an underwater sculpture park and hybrid reef that organizers called the “first of its kind.”

The underwater sculpture park REEFLINE launched its first installation with a beachside celebration Tuesday afternoon, with the concrete cars in view off of South Beach’s coast. After they are placed on the ocean floor, over 2,000 corals will be planted onto the cars.

Colin Foord, REEFLINE’s director of science, said Florida is at the front lines of climate change, sea level rise and the coral

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