NBC 6 Investigators - Here’s some of what the original Peoples’ Transportation Plan was supposed to fund, and the progress 15 years later:

In my opinion: A classic chicken or the egg argument.  Did we miss the mark on the promises (and redirect spending) due to failure to receive he anticipated Federal dollars or are the Feds withholding the dollars (albeit there are less dollars more than in years past) because of the way the PTP monies were redirected?

CLICK HERE to View the NBC6 Investigative Report online: Broken Promises of Sales Tax Hike Loom Over Transit Debate
By Tony Pipitone

Here’s some of what the original Peoples’ Transportation Plan was supposed to fund, and the progress 15 years later:

• 89 more miles of Metrorail -- instead, there are four additional miles
• 1,191 buses -- currently 815
• 70 percent increase in transit service miles – there’s been a 7-percent increase
• 17-mile elevated line roughly parallel to the Dolphin Expressway – never begun

About $1 billion of the money intended to fund the projects has instead been diverted to pay operations and maintenance costs for projects not covered by the PTP.
"This is the greatest story of mismanagement of a special tax in the history of this county certainly," county commissioner Xavier Suarez told the NBC 6 Investigators.
 

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