{"id":15316,"date":"2025-10-22T08:03:09","date_gmt":"2025-10-22T08:03:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/15316\/"},"modified":"2025-10-22T08:03:09","modified_gmt":"2025-10-22T08:03:09","slug":"bus-rapid-transit-a-go-but-northern-intermodal-hub-isnt","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/15316\/","title":{"rendered":"Bus Rapid Transit a go, but northern intermodal hub isn\u2019t"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.miamitodaynews.com\/subscribe\/\" title=\"www.miamitodaynews.com\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/Subscription_skyscrapper_Green.jpg\" width=\"120\" height=\"600\" border=\"0\" alt=\"www.miamitodaynews.com\"\/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Advertisement\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/p>\n<p>Written by <a href=\"https:\/\/www.miamitodaynews.com\/author\/admin\/\" title=\"Posts by Miami Today\" rel=\"author nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Miami Today<\/a> on October 22, 2025<\/p>\n<p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/Breaking-News4.jpg\" alt=\"Bus Rapid Transit a go, but northern intermodal hub isn\u2019t\" class=\"postimage\" width=\"483\" height=\"300\"\/><\/p>\n<p>Work will take longer and cost more at the Dadeland South Metrorail Station to ease transfers between Metrorail and bus rapid transit to Homestead that starts next week.<\/p>\n<p>A July 2023 contract to make the station an intermodal hub was to last 685 days \u2013 ready for opening of the South Corridor bus system \u2013 and cost $66.8 million. The new time is 949 days, long after bus rapid transit (BRT) is in use, and cost $6.9 million more.<\/p>\n<p>The county Appropriations Committee unanimously supported the change last week after Commissioner Roberto Gonzalez was reassured that funds for the extra cost would come from transportation surtaxes, not the county budget.<\/p>\n<p>The work at the Dadeland South station is likely to affect BRT operations, Alex Barrios, assistant director for construction of the Miami-Dade Department of Transportation and Public Works, told the Citizens\u2019 Independent Transportation Trust in September. \u201cIt may affect our run time slightly\u201d on the 20-mile transitway trip, he said.<\/p>\n<p>The extended time is not due to contractors NV2A Group, Stacy Miller, the county\u2019s transportation director, told the Appropriations Committee.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe had to make some changes to the physical location of where BRT service will be provided, also escalator replacement\u201d and more, she said.<\/p>\n<p>The changes will integrate in-route chargers for the bus fleet at the north terminal of the South Corridor, said a memo from Jimmy Morales, the county\u2019s chief operating officer. \u201cOriginally deferred to a future contract, inclusion now ensures seamless integration with station architecture, avoids redundant construction and generates long-term cost savings,\u201d he wrote.<\/p>\n<p>The BRT service area is also being reconfigured \u201cto improve bus mobility, enhance driver safety and support independent bay arrivals and departures,\u201d he wrote, and once it\u2019s designed, the county will negotiate the cost of those upgrades and OK another contract change at a higher cost.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Advertisement Written by Miami Today on October 22, 2025 Work will take longer and cost more at the&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":15317,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[15],"tags":[225,227,226],"class_list":{"0":"post-15316","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-hialeah","8":"tag-hialeah","9":"tag-hialeah-headlines","10":"tag-hialeah-news"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15316","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=15316"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15316\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/15317"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=15316"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=15316"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=15316"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}