Metromover to Miami Beach? It’s finally coming, officials say

MIAMI – After years of dialogue and public clamoring, attending to Miami Seashore by prepare might lastly turn into a actuality by the top of the last decade.

Miami-Dade Mayor Daniella Levine Cava and County Commissioner Eileen Higgins introduced plans to develop Miami’s Metromover to Miami Seashore in a video posted to social media Wednesday.

“We’ve heard our neighborhood loud and clear,” Levine Cava mentioned. “You need extra transit and that features a easy inexpensive strategy to get to and from Miami Seashore. So we’re right here to let you know Metromover from Miami to the seaside is coming.”

With the enlargement, guests and residents would have the ability to get from Miami Worldwide Airport to South Seashore through rail. A county information launch additionally hinted at a connection to PortMiami.

The plan supplants an earlier proposed monorail mission. Officers mentioned that concept proved too pricey and complex, versus connecting Miami Seashore with the “straightforward, acquainted,” already-existing system.

Moreover, riders heading from downtown would have needed to change trains at the least as soon as.

“The monorail plan for the Baylink comes with a price ticket that’s simply manner too excessive for our funds, whereas failing to ship the one-seat trip that you just’ve requested for,” Higgins mentioned.

In keeping with the county, that price ticket ballooned to $1.3 billion. County officers didn’t specify how a lot a Metromover enlargement would price, however did say it might be decrease.

County transit workers “will work to promote, consider, and negotiate the brand new resolution by October 2023, facilitating an accelerated supply with mission design commencing in 2024, building starting in 2025 and operations anticipated by 2029,” a county spokesperson mentioned.