{"id":127858,"date":"2026-01-22T14:29:09","date_gmt":"2026-01-22T14:29:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/127858\/"},"modified":"2026-01-22T14:29:09","modified_gmt":"2026-01-22T14:29:09","slug":"debate-over-new-river-crossing-in-fort-lauderdale-could-be-settled-soon","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/127858\/","title":{"rendered":"Debate over new river crossing in Fort Lauderdale could be settled soon"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The City of Fort Lauderdale and Broward County have been at odds over whether a future commuter rail line should cross the New river by bridge or by tunnel.<\/p>\n<p>The county has long touted a bridge as more cost effective, but Fort Lauderdale supports a tunnel.<\/p>\n<p>City leaders like commissioner Ben Sorensen believe the bridge would mar the skyline, increase noise and raise safety issues.<\/p>\n<p>\u201c\u200aThat would add 120 trains crossing Broward Boulevard at grade every day. Not acceptable from a public safety standpoint, from a transportation standpoint,&#8221; he said.<\/p>\n<p>Sorensen says that he\u2019s gotten the go-ahead from the county to present a price proposal that caps the county\u2019s investment at $250 million dollars. If he\u2019s successful, Fort Lauderdale will have its tunnel.<\/p>\n<p>The newest proposal is expected in the coming weeks.<\/p>\n<p>READ MORE: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.wlrn.org\/transportation\/2024-12-24\/fort-lauderdale-bridge-tunnel\" class=\"Link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Fort Lauderdale rescinds bridge resolution, tunnel fight not dead<\/a><\/p>\n<p>This is a News In Brief report. Visit <a href=\"https:\/\/www.wlrn.org\/\" class=\"Link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">WLRN News<\/a> for in-depth reporting from South Florida and Florida news.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The City of Fort Lauderdale and Broward County have been at odds over whether a future commuter rail&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":127859,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[17],"tags":[249,251,250],"class_list":{"0":"post-127858","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-fort-lauderdale","8":"tag-fort-lauderdale","9":"tag-fort-lauderdale-headlines","10":"tag-fort-lauderdale-news"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/127858","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=127858"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/127858\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/127859"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=127858"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=127858"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=127858"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}