The SMART plan launched consultant studies of six major commuting routes, with the aim of analyzing which transit mode (Metrorail, light rail, rapid transit bus, even autonomous vehicles) made the most sense for each. That was the planning reset aimed at addressing more than a decade of broken promises on extending Metrorail - pledges made to voters in exchange for approving a half-percent transportation sales tax in 2012. If the Transportation Planning Organization, a 25-member board that includes all 13 county commissioners, takes on the South Dade issue, it would set up a milestone for the 2016 SMART Plan. His administration plans to ask the county's transportation board to endorse building the "bus rapid transit" system along the 20-mile South Dade busway, an existing two-lane highway that's reserved for county buses and already has growing routes in a system losing passengers elsewhere at an alarming rate. The two sides have been sparring for several years, but on July 19 Mayor Carlos Gimenez is set to ask for the first definitive vote on the issue.
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