{"id":286461,"date":"2026-05-27T18:14:11","date_gmt":"2026-05-27T18:14:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/286461\/"},"modified":"2026-05-27T18:14:11","modified_gmt":"2026-05-27T18:14:11","slug":"tri-rail-funding-appears-to-be-in-proposed-florida-budget","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/286461\/","title":{"rendered":"Tri-Rail funding appears to be in proposed Florida budget"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>            <img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"responsive-image\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/Metrorail_Station_Development_MJO_15.JPG\"   width=\"1200\" height=\"674\" title=\"A Metrorail train arrives to the Douglas Road Station on Thursday, Aug. 7, 2025, in Miami.\" alt=\"A Metrorail train arrives to the Douglas Road Station on Thursday, Aug. 7, 2025, in Miami.\"\/><\/p>\n<p>        A Metrorail train arrives to the Douglas Road Station on Thursday, Aug. 7, 2025, in Miami.<\/p>\n<p>                Photo by Matias J. Ocner<\/p>\n<p>            mocner@miamiherald.com<\/p>\n<p>Tri-Rail\u2019s long road to restoring a full state subsidy to its operating budget appears to be nearing a positive end after Florida legislators included its full $60 million funding request in the forthcoming state budget, a member of the railroad\u2019s governing agency said Tuesday.<\/p>\n<p>Broward County Commissioner Lamar Fisher, who also is a member of the South Florida Regional Transportation Authority board, said at a regular meeting of the County Commission that the money is in the budget that will be voted upon by legislators this Friday.<\/p>\n<p>The money is critical for regional travelers who use the 37-year-old rail line to ride to South Florida airports, commute to and from schools and jobs, and take round trips to leisure events. Last year, the subsidy was slashed to $15 million, and Tri-Rail\u2019s management said the railroad would run out of money by mid-2027 if the funds were not restored.<\/p>\n<p><a target=\"_blank\" rel=\"Follow nofollow noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/www.sun-sentinel.com\/2026\/05\/27\/funds-to-keep-tri-rail-operating-appear-to-be-in-proposed-florida-budget\/\">Read the full story at Sun-Sentinel.com.<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A Metrorail train arrives to the Douglas Road Station on Thursday, Aug. 7, 2025, in Miami. Photo by&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":286462,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[123,125,124],"class_list":["post-286461","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-miami","tag-miami","tag-miami-headlines","tag-miami-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/286461","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=286461"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/286461\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/286462"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=286461"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=286461"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=286461"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}