A new 2-cent addition to gas tax likely to fuel transit corridor

Written by Miami Today on February 20, 2018

The long-awaited SMART plan to fund Miami-Dade County’s six-corridor transit expansion is slowly coming into additional funding sources. The Transportation Planning Organization’s Fiscal Priorities Committee met Tuesday to discuss the benefits of an extra two cent local option gas tax, asking county attorneys to draft legislation for its next meeting.
“We have to arm ourselves with everything we can in the toolbox,” said Commissioner Dennis Moss, who first suggested the local option gas tax increase.

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