The Miami-Dade mayor’s desired request for proposals on the overhaul of both the Rickenbacker and Venetian causeways — a necessary step after getting an unsolicited proposal — could hit a snag Thursday. A number of commissioners and other stakeholders — including city officials in both Key Biscayne and Miami Beach — have questions and concerns. […]
He wants to revisit light and heavy rail as an option True to his word, Miami-Dade Commissioner Kionne McGhee will ask his colleagues to pull the brakes on the $368 million rapid bus transit project along U.S. 1 to Homestead and park it another 60 days to examine other options — such as light and […]
They were supposed to get their lump sum payments this week, hundreds or, in some cases, thousands of dollars in back pay owed to them since 2017. And just in time for the holidays, too. But Miami-Dade transit workers found out Wednesday that most of them will have to wait until early next year. And […]
The top name on that “clean house” list that people are passing around — hoping that new Mayor Daniella Levine Cava has one, too — is Alice Bravo, the director of the Miami-Dade public works and transit departments. “We do want to see some change,” says Jeffrey Mitchell, president of the Transit Workers Union Local […]
A group of transit-minded activists and volunteers have compiled the track records and positions on transportation issues for six of the seven Miami-Dade mayoral candidates, and former Miami-Dade Mayor Alex Penelas — who created the half-penny sales tax fund that was supposed to expand transit but got misused instead — gets the highest points on […]
One after the other, Miami-Dade County commissioners expressed very big concerns Tuesday with an exclusive, $2.5 billion proposal — complete with a memorandum of understanding — to build a five-stop rail along existing tracks for a new Virgin Trains (aka Brightline) route along the Northeast corridor, It’s too much money, they said. Tri-rail protested and […]
Miami-Dade County is finally taking some small steps to control the coronavirus spreading petri dishes that they call buses: providing masks to all employees, limiting the number of passengers allowed on board — signs on the seats will tell riders where they should sit — and suspending low-use routes with overlapping services while adding more […]
Two Miami-Dade bus drivers and an employee from the radio room have tested positive for coronavirus in recent days, their union leader said, as transit workers — who are also on the front lines — continue to work without protective gear. And the southbound Route 9 bus in Aventura had 60 passengers on board Friday morning. […]
Monday was Day 15 of the “stay-at-home” order to stop the the community spread of COVID19 in Miami-Dade, which now has a reported 1,701 positive cases, according to the Florida Department of Health. But for all the “shelter-in-place” orders and curfews — a new one starts in Hialeah — and “safer at home” rhetoric, there sure […]
Updated: And from the better late than never category: The Seminole Tribe of Florida finally closed its casinos to help curb the community spread of COVID-19, Miami Beach hotels are shutting down and Miami-Dade transit finally cut bus and Metrorail service on Friday — Day 5 of the all voluntary #StayHome movement — but only after […]