The MetroExpress Bus Rapid Transit system isn’t the train expansion that many residents hoped would connect the Metrorail to southern Miami-Dade communities along U.S. 1. That option turned out to be too expensive.
But the BRT— Miami-Dade’s largest public-transit project in a decade — might be the next best thing, if it is fast enough to encourage drivers to leave their cars at home.
The new system — set to open Oct. 27, after much delay — will be “rail like,” Miami-Dade County’s Transportation and Public Works Director Stacy Miller said, during a tour of the project on Wednesday. Mayor Daniella Levine Cava accompanied the Herald Editorial Board and other journalists on a demonstration ride that ran from the Southwest 152nd Street station to Southwest 168th Street, where a parking garage adjacent to the station will soon open with charging spots for electrical vehicles. The BRT project was approved under then-Mayor Carlos Gimenez in 2018…