A planned 14-mile southern extension of State Road 836 into Kendall has quietly stalled over cost concerns as leaders of a state toll board continue to freeze spending on the project.
While the Greater Miami Expressway Agency (GMX) has about $6 million worth of engineering contracts in place for the planned Kendall Parkway extension of the 836, documents from the toll board’s most recent agenda show none of that money has been spent.
The agency has also frozen a program to purchase land along the planned route between the 836’s current endpoint near Northwest 12th Street down to Southwest 136th Street. The last parcel was bought in 2023 for the planned six-lane toll road, which was originally budgeted at $1 billion but, according to GMX, now, is expected to cost closer to $3 billion. Even though GMX was allocated $100 million in this year’s Florida budget for the project, the agency hasn’t used the money, saying the newly installed board still needs time to sort construction priorities…