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A quiet update to the Florida Department of Transportation website last week reveals a major update for South Florida public transportation: The ‘Northeast Corridor’ that aims to link downtown Miami to Aventura on a publicly owned train has been fully funded for construction.
Two hundred million dollars in state funding was added to FDOT’s five year plan for Miami-Dade transit projects. The cash will fill in the gaps left for construction once local and federal funds are accounted for. State funding was previously earmarked for the corridor, but last year the money was controversially removed from the state budget…