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Go get ‘em!
Let’s take them down.
This is an outrage. Not only are these double-decker highways — or highways period — expensive to build and maintain, they are absolutely ugly. They completely ruin the look and feel of neighborhoods.
Yuck. It sounds like at least initially, the bus service would remain. One thing that bugs me, though, is that they do not elaborate as to where the interchanges would exist. A lot of routes enter and leave the busway at various places.
Maybe I should say “the buses would remain as long as someone still deemed it profitable”. During the construction, of course, they’d have to leave the busway, and knowing mdt, the next “service adjustment” would probably permanently remove the busway services after construction begins.
Pretty much.
MDX is a money making scheme plain and simple. As long as the tolls are flowing in they will be shopping around for places they can build new tolled expressways. Of course our MPO will never say no to MDX because their projects are self financed.
MDX should be required to build transit as part of any large project using a current transit route. However, they ought not to overlap routes.
We certainly understand your concerns and many may be unwarranted due to incorrect speculation. We are in fact working together with Miami Dade Transit on this study to improve existing transit service and providing Express lanes maximizing the unused capacity of the busway. Alternatives that are being studied are grade separations at major intersections, among others, that would allow for the buses to ride safely and quickly without having to stop at the intersections as they must do today. This would allow for faster and more efficient bus service and potential increase in ridership. The MPO first took a look at the possibility of using toll money to improve transit specifically on the South Dade Busway. All new transportation corridors that MDX has included in the MPO long range plan have a multimodal component including the potential for transit, bikeways. We welcome the opportunity to brief you on the facts of this project and clear up any misconceptions. Thank you
Hi ‘MDX’, I am writing a followup post and will respond to you there. It would help the dialogue if you identified yourself and your capacity. Is this an official statement from MDX?
Thank you Tony. I am the Public Information Officer for MDX. Please feel free to email me and we can set up a time to brief you on this project.
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Thanks Tere. I will definitely reach out to you.
[...] folks to advocate for the best transit options, when they are simultaneously planning to undermine Tri-Rail and the US1 busway with an elevated expressway (not to mention their stated opposition to the regional service on the South Florida East Coast [...]
[...] idea of using transit as a way to sweeten an otherwise bad idea is not new. We have been reporting for some time about MDXs plan to run a highway parallel to US1, under the dub… (Meanwhile, low cost transit improvements that would greatly improve service, like signal [...]
[...] idea of using transit as a way to sweeten an otherwise bad idea is not new. We have been reporting for some time about MDXs plan to run a highway parallel to US1, under the dub… (Meanwhile, low cost transit improvements that would greatly improve service, like signal [...]
Was money FOR metro rail past dade south then POOF. They done built orphan busway, dey got green light switch. Dey be late to time points to often for years. People didn,t forget …