Anyone who thought the outrageous and over-the-top $500 million Plan Z proposal for the privatization of Rickenbacker Causeway was dead in the water might want to look again. Miami Mayor Francis Suarez wants to resurrect the public land grab. Suarez is asking the commission on Thursday to urge the county to revisit Plan Z — […]
Miami-Dade Mayor, Commissioners consider real solutions The ‘if only’ is backwards. After the terrible accident that killed two cyclists on the bike lane in Key Biscayne earlier this month, there are the inevitable grumblings that the county had a chance to make cycling on the Rickenbacker Causeway safer — “if only” they hadn’t killed the […]
Holy moly! Wednesday’s Miami-Dade Commission meeting is going to be a doozy. According to the agenda, the last meeting of the year is heavy-loaded with several big ticket items. According to some County Hall insiders, any one of them could turn into a thing. There’s going to be some discussion (read: complaints) on the county’s […]
Controversial Rickenbacker RFP scheduled for 3 p.m. time certain The polemic push to privatize and redevelop the Rickenbacker Causeway will be discussed again Tuesday at the Miami-Dade Commission meeting. The board will probably drop the Venetian Causeway from the request for proposals, as Commissioner Sally Heyman requested, because it’s really all about the Rickenbacker anyway. […]
It looks like the mobilization of Key Biscayne residents against the redevelopment and privatization of Rickenbacker Causeway has found some success: Miami-Dade Commissioner Raquel Regalado, who had defended the RFP as a way to fund long-needed bridge improvements, sent a memo to the mayor asking for some changes and more time. Miami-Dade Mayor Daniella Levine […]
Miami-Dade Commissioner Raquel Regalado took a slew of county officials, including Chief Operating Officer Jimmy Morales, to Key Biscayne Wednesday to explain the controversial Rickenbacker Causeway project proposal to concerned Village residents. Let’s just say it was not her crowd. She was heckled and booed for her perceived defense of a controversial request for proposals […]
Town hall on the RFP Wednesday at Key Biscayne Community Center The Venetian Causeway is going to be cut out of the request for proposals that already went out on the redevelopment and privatization of both the Miami Beach connector and the Rickenbacker Causeway to Key Biscayne, which is really what this project was all […]
Despite a “listening” session for stakeholders to raise concerns, the request for proposals on the Rickenbacker Causeway overhaul (and privatization) went out exactly as it was first expected to: As a near total replica of the unsolicited Plan Z proposal that looks like a done deal. Guess nobody listened. This is just theater, pretend transparency […]