The county is hoping having Traffic Operations, Construction and Maintenance, Highway Planning, Passenger Transportation Regulation and the County Engineer all under one roof can facilitate more of a complete streets approach. Transit ridership declined by 7 percent between 20, with Metrobus seeing the biggest loss, 10 percent. Miami consistently ranks among the most traffic-congested cities in America, and was named the fourth-most dangerous metro area for pedestrians in 2014.
By unifying the two departments now there’s a common mission. Alice Bravo, director of the new joint department and former director of Miami-Dade Transit, said, “For many years we’ve had basically two different … transportation groups, and they each take a different approach to a certain issue. Gimenez said the merger would improve agency collaboration, citing a “lack of coordinated effort” in the past.
Last month, in a bid to improve efficiency and better integrate services into the full gamut of county projects, Miami-Dade’s transportation and public works agencies officially merged into one.Īnnouncing the new Department of Transportation and Public Works, Mayor Carlos A.
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