Comments on: Flawed Funding Mentality

By: Sales Tax to Fund Transit | Transit Miami

Sales Tax to Fund Transit | Transit Miami — Tue, 27 May 2008 19:27:29 +0000

[...] Breaking News – Contrary to our report last week regarding the increase of transit fares, a couple of Miami-Dade County Commissioners (Bruno [...]

By: anonymous13

anonymous13 — Sun, 25 May 2008 22:21:43 +0000

My guess on the densest area is Hialeah…or Little Havana.

This enrages me…$100 is ludicrous! Miami’s shoddy system isn’t worth $100 dollars a month, probably not even half of that. And to think I was going to move back to Miami. I’m a car-less person and I intend to keep it that way.

By: Sean Bossinger

Sean Bossinger — Wed, 21 May 2008 20:59:43 +0000

My guess on the densest area of Miami-Dade is that it’s South Beach. If not there… then I don’t want to guess. Congestion pricing won’t work here because of the homogeneity of travel within the county - we don’t have a central core that fills up with commuters on a daily basis.

As far as the price increases on the monthly passes, there is no way our transit agency should even consider charging more than places like Chicago, NYC, or Boston. If those places can run their transit systems on their $81 or less farecards, we should be able to also. We have nowhere near the infrastructure to support…

By: Gabriel Lopez-Bernal

Gabriel Lopez-Bernal — Wed, 21 May 2008 01:00:07 +0000

Can anyone Guess where the densest area of Miami-Dade County is?

maaaty - I think the only CP that will work here for a while is variable pricing along our major highways.

By: maaaty

maaaty — Wed, 21 May 2008 00:38:46 +0000

Congestion pricing, hmmm …. Good points, Armando, and I wonder where even to draw the theoretical congestion-pricing radius — downtown, Brickell and vicinity? How about the entirety of U.S. 1 or, hell, the county itself. : ) Is the density of Miami simply too low for it to be workable?

By: Gabriel J. Lopez-Bernal

Gabriel J. Lopez-Bernal — Wed, 21 May 2008 00:35:37 +0000

HOT Lanes = Congestion Pricing, which as you might know are currently being installed on I-95.

In case you missed it, Atlanta, Dallas, and L.A., three other highly autocentric sunbelt cities, were also included on the list…

By: Armando

Armando — Tue, 20 May 2008 23:56:06 +0000

Congestion pricing is off-limits. You can’t go around punishing drivers before the public transit system is mature and effective enough to replace cars.

Miami is a sunbelt city built in the era of cars. Comparing it to NY, Boston, etc. is apple to oranges.

By: nemo

nemo — Tue, 20 May 2008 20:25:37 +0000

i take the metro- and tri-rail every day to broward from south miami. so not only is miami-dade raising transit prices, they are also CUTTING trains and bus routes??? how do they justify this? what happened to the SAVE MY TRAIN! campaign? did it do any good? i’m fed up with this place!

By: Gabriel Lopez-Bernal

Gabriel Lopez-Bernal — Tue, 20 May 2008 18:37:48 +0000

Do we love our cars or do we not have any other options?

I, for one, am a Floridian who hates the living constraints of owning a vehicle for personal mobility…

By: Dave

Dave — Tue, 20 May 2008 18:34:57 +0000

I just looked up where the “T” in Boston gets its funding from, 20% of all Massachusetts sales tax dollars get put into the MBTA’s operating budget. That is a state with a commitment to mass transit. Of course we have a Governor who simply points out that Floridians “love their cars”.