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The SoFla High Line?: Metrorail bike path project in the works

Miami-Dade County, tri-city officials backing redevelopment of bikeway

Rendering of the Underline at the Metrorail University Station and Miami-Dade Mayor Carlos Gimenez
Rendering of the Underline at the Metrorail University Station and Miami-Dade Mayor Carlos Gimenez

From the South Florida website: The paved path that runs underneath the Metrorail, from Brickell to Dadeland, might finally be transformed into Miami-Dade’s equivalent of the High Line in New York.

Friends of the Underline is the group behind the campaign to redevelop the M-Path into the Underline, a landscaped, 10-mile long bikeway and park, the Miami Herald reported.

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With backing from the University of Miami, the county and the cities of Miami, Coral Gables and South Miami, the group launched a competition for a design firm to develop a master plan and two demonstration projects centered on Metrorail stations, according to the Herald.

The three cities, along with the Knight Foundation, the Miami Foundation and others with fund the $500,000 contract for the design. Friends of the Underline will announce the winner Feb. 2 and will have a plan ready by July. [Miami Herald] — Katherine Kallergis

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