It will be entirely tied up with debt service and contributions to cities, which get 23% of the tax’s annual revenue, and require support from the county general fund, they said. The half-percent sales tax known as the half-penny approved in 2002, which voters enticed by the promise of county-wide Metrorail service, has generated more than $3.7 billion, said the Citizens’ Independent Transportation Trust, the group that oversees funds the tax generates.īut according to information former mayor Carlos Giménez and Chief of Policy and Budgetary Affairs Jennifer Moon gave Miami-Dade officials and press in a September 2018 presentation, the half-penny will stop being able to support new transit expansions by 2024. “ RFP may go out for rail, but in our world – or at least mine, where the sky is still blue and grey, not pink – it’ll never get done,” he said, citing cost projections that say building Metrorail could cost up to $250,000 per new passenger it attracts.Īdding difficulty to the matter, he continued, is that the funding mechanism meant to pay for the North Corridor upgrade and five others identified in a 2016 plan to expand and improve transit across Miami-Dade is drying out.
The likelihood of any of those proposals being both a long-promised Metrorail stretch and feasible, however, are nil, according to Mr. Miami-Dade expects in spring to receive responses to its request for proposals (RFP) for elevated transit on what the county calls the North Corridor, which runs along Northwest 27th Avenue beginning at the Martin L. A Metrorail extension may be among the rapid transit upgrade proposals Miami-Dade receives for the 9.5-mile commuting route between the northernmost Metrorail station and the Broward County line, but it’s not what will ultimately be built there, Commissioner Joe Martinez said.
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