April 25, 2024

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Florida's quote of the day

| 4/24/2018

"There's too much pie-in-the-sky thinking. Too much paralysis by analysis."

-- Former state senator Alex Diaz de la Portilla

Three candidates for an open seat on the Miami-Dade commission share at least one position: disdain for that board's extended hand-wringing over how to expand Metrorail.

Whoever wins the May 22 special election to replace Bruno Barreiro representing parts of Miami and Miami Beach on the 13-member County Commission will be thrust into the debate over what to do with the 2016 SMART Plan — an ongoing analysis of six potential rail corridors costing Miami-Dade and Florida up to $50 million in consultant fees for the studies alone. 

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