MIAMI – Miami-Dade County announced Wednesday plans to develop Metromover to hook up Miami to Miami Seaside.
“My administration is committed to giving our residents with revolutionary transit remedies that improved link residents to jobs and chance, when delivering optimum value to taxpayers,” claimed Mayor Daniella Levine Cava.
“I have normally supported a a single-seat trip for Baylink, and I am happy that we are now relocating forward with a seamless extension of the Metromover to give the greatest working experience to inhabitants and website visitors at a appreciably reduce charge.”
Officers mentioned that in Oct 2020, the Miami-Dade Board of County Commissioners approved an interim agreement with MBM Partners, LLC (MBM) granting the right to negotiate a thorough 30-calendar year undertaking settlement to create and keep a monorail procedure connecting Miami to Miami Beach front.
“When monorail was very first proposed, the prior administration introduced it as a alternative that could preserve hundreds of tens of millions of bucks above Metromover. In the new negotiations, having said that, the price tag ballooned to $1.3 billion,” explained District 5 Commissioner Eileen Higgins. “We now believe that we can get what the residents want – a a person-seat experience among Downtown and the Beach by extending our current Metromover – at a reduced price. Which is why we have made the decision expanding the Metromover is the finest solution.”
“Supplying a significant-top quality transit option that choose citizens and people involving Miami’s urban main, Miami Beach front and the economic engines of Miami Worldwide Airport and PortMiami is important to producing a flourishing, additional resilient Miami-Dade,” said DTPW Director & CEO Eulois Cleckley. “This a person-seat journey will hook up far more riders to a lot more pieces of our County by way of a easy and continual Metromover growth.”
Officers reported design will start in 2025, and functions are anticipated by 2029.
“The proposed timeline will supply a much more rider-friendly, expense-efficient solution in a similar timeframe to that of the at first pursued monorail option,” officers reported.
