The SMART Plan

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One of the local plans the TPO Governing Board supports is the People’s Transportation Plan (PTP). In 2002, Miami-Dade County voters approved a one-half percent local surtax with the purpose of improving, among other things, rapid transit corridors within the county through the PTP. While the PTP is a locally funded initiative administered by the Citizens Independent Transportation Trust (CITT), the Miami-Dade TPO remains committed to assisting in the development of these rapid transit corridors today.

In fact, on February 16, 2016, the TPO Governing Board unanimously approved a policy to set as “highest priority” the advancement of rapid transit corridors and transit supportive projects for the county. Then, on April 21, 2016, the Miami-Dade TPO Governing Board officially adopted and endorsed the proposed Strategic Miami Area Rapid Transit (SMART) Plan.

The SMART Plan intends to advance six of the PTP’s rapid transit corridors, along with a network system of Bus Express Rapid Transit (BERT) service, in order to implement mass transit projects in Miami-Dade County. To ensure the SMART Plan moves forward, the TPO Governing Board directed the Miami-Dade TPO Executive Director to work with the TPO FPC to determine the costs and potential sources of funding for Project Development and Environment (PD&E) studies for the projects, and to also take all necessary steps to implement the SMART Plan.

RAPID TRANSIT CORRIDORS
CORRIDORS LISTED IN ALPHABETICAL ORDER	FROM	TO	LEAD AGENCY
Beach Corridor	Midtown Miami	Miami Beach Convention Center	DTPW*
East-West Corridor	Miami Intermodal Center	Florida International University	DTPW
Kendall Corridor	Dadeland area Metrorail Stations	SW 167th Avenue	FDOT** District 6
North Corridor	Martin L. King, Jr. Metrorail Station	NW 215th Street	FDOT District 6
Northeast Corridor	Downtown Miami	City of Aventura	FDOT District 4
South Dade TransitWay	Dadeland South Metrorail Station	Florida City	DTPW
BUS EXPRESS RAPID TRANSIT (BERT) COMPLIMENTARY NETWORK
BERTS LISTED IN ALPHABETICAL ORDER	DESCRIPTION
Beach Express	North - Miami Beach Convention Center to Golden Glades via I-95 Central - Miami Beach Convention Center to Civic Center via Julia Tuttle Causeway South - Miami Beach Convention Center to Downtown Miami via MacArthur Causeway
Flagler Corridor	Downtown Miami to West Dade via Flagler Street
Florida’s Turnpike Express	Doral area to South Miami-Dade via the Florida’s Turnpike
Northwest Miami-Dade Express	Palmetto Metrorail Station to Miami Gardens Drive Park-n-Ride via Palmetto Expressway and I-75
South Miami-Dade Express	Dadeland North Metrorail Station to southern Miami-Dade County via SR-878, SR-874, and Florida’s Turnpike
Southwest Miami-Dade Express	Dadeland North Metrorail Station to Miami Executive Airport via SR-878 and SR-874

 

*DTPW – Miami-Dade Department of Transportation & Public Works
**FDOT – Florida Department of Transportation

 

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