Can Miami Fix Its Traffic Problem? The Transit Plan Nobody's Talking About with Alice Bravo Ep. 118

Everyone in Miami has a commute horror story. Omar sits down with Alice Bravo, the engineer who literally wrote Miami-Dade's SMART Plan, to find out why a fully mapped transit expansion has been sitting on a shelf since the 1980s.

Alice spent 25+ years building South Florida's biggest infrastructure projects, the Port of Miami Tunnel, the 95 Express Lanes, and as Director of Miami-Dade's Department of Transportation and Public Works, she created the Strategic Miami Area Rapid Transit (SMART) Plan: six corridors designed to finally give Miami a real transit network.

In this episode, she breaks down exactly what's built, what's funded but stalled, and why a half-penny sales tax voters approved back in 2002 still hasn't delivered the big-ticket corridors people voted for.

Chapters:
0:00 – The 2.5-hour commute nobody talks about
0:31 – Welcome to the show + meet Alice Bravo
1:12 – Alice's 25-year path to writing the SMART Plan
4:03 – State of Miami transit: what's working, what's not
6:58 – Inside the new South Dade Bus Rapid Transit launch
10:49 – The SMART Plan, unpacked: 6 corridors that could change everything
15:29 – The half-penny sales tax: where the money actually goes
19:08 – Why these corridors keep stalling out after 40 years
20:03 – North, Northeast, East-West, Kendall, Beach: every corridor explained
23:59 – Realistic timeline: what could happen in the next 5 years
27:44 – The property tax debate now competing for transit funding
32:53 – The Miami Beach connection: what killed the monorail plan
36:19 – What it takes for Miami to become a true global city
38:52 – How residents can actually make their voice heard
40:00 – Final thoughts: autonomous vehicles and what's next

📍 Follow along for more real talk on the market shaping South Florida.

Guest: Alice Bravo

Host: Omar De Windt

Producers: Veronica Paris, Jean Avendano

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