- July 10, 2010 - The plan to build an extension of Metrorail north to the Broward County line is likely dead due to lack of funds.
- April 25, 2010 - Improving tri-county transportation is crucial to South Florida's success, business leaders say, but it's no overnight task.
- January 23, 2010 - Early Monday, county buses from Miami-Dade and Broward will begin operating routes deep into each other's backyards for the first time.
- January 13, 2010 - A company that runs a special county transit system created to give rides to the elderly and disabled overbilled taxpayers for hundreds of thousands of dollars for trips that never happened, authorities said.
- January 11, 2010 - Before the end of the month, new bus routes between Miami and Fort Lauderdale will start running along express lanes on Interstate 95,where drivers begin paying tolls Friday.
- December 12, 2009 - New reductions in Miami-Dade bus service will take effect Sunday, part of a budget control effort that rolls back service to just above the level before voters agreed to a half-penny transit tax.
- October 27, 2009 - Long-promised northern and east/west Metrorail extensions don't appear in Miami-Dade County's proposed 10-year transit development plan.
- October 26, 2009 - By early 2011, the Homestead Extension of Florida's Turnpike will be converted to electronic tolling between Miramar and Florida City. The long-term goal is to make the entire road cash-free.
- October 8, 2009 - South Florida transportation officials will hold 11 public meetings throughout the region to solicit ideas about what type of transit should operate on a corridor that would follow the Florida East Coast Railway track along the eastern shore.
- September 25, 2009 - http://www.miamitodaynews.com/news/090924/story4.shtml
- September 25, 2009 - Half-percent sales surtax proceeds can still fund long-standing Miami-Dade Transit services after commissioners last week OK'd a budget that avoids what could have been a major jam.
- August 20, 2009 - Miami-Dade won't be able to use half-penny transit sales surtax proceeds to support existing transportation services should commissioners follow Mayor Carlos Alvarez's lead and choose not to increase the county transit outlay in the upcoming fiscal year.
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