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MDT Leadership

Published
by
Gabriel Lopez-Bernal
on January 24, 2007
in Miami, Miami-Dade County, Transit and Trash Cans
. 1 Comment

I came across an interesting comment posted on The Miami Herald in response to the strong mayor victory. Apparently we’re not the only ones dissatisfied with the leadership over at Miami-Dade Transit.

Hopefully, now the escalators along the Brickell Avenue route will be fixed after more than one year out of service for “upgrades”. Got a nice reply about this matter from Mr. Bradleys office after a couple of months, but still, no solution to the problem.

  • Posted by: Silvie

Perhaps if they hadn’t wasted our money replacing perfectly good trash receptacles we would have escalators and elevators for patrons to use…

Straight to the Trash

Published
by
Gabriel Lopez-Bernal
on January 24, 2007
in Half-Penny Sales Tax, Miami, Miami-Dade County, Transit and Trash Cans
. 8 Comments

Riding around on metrorail recently, I couldn’t help but wonder which public coffer was plundered to pay for the replacement see-through trash cans along every station. Look, I’m not against keeping the city secure from reasonable threats, but, I don’t think any terrorist is looking to bomb one of the most underutilized transit systems in the nation- it’s just not happening. As Rebecca noted earlier, the old trash receptacles were even removed for quite some time before the new ones had arrived. It’s quite humorous actually, while standing around waiting for the northbound train, I realized where our half-penny tax was headed; straight to the trash…