Miami Beach Mayor Dan Gelber chided Miami-Dade leaders on Wednesday for a rushed vote on a two-month-old proposal by casino giant Genting to start a county bidding process for a monorail linking the resort city to downtown Miami.
In a letter, Gelber asked Miami-Dade commission chairwoman Audrey Edmonson to delay Wednesday鈥檚 vote to give the city time to analyze the proposal and let the county finish a tax-funded study by the Parsons engineering firm of the 鈥渂aylink鈥� commuting route.
鈥淭his accelerated timeline poses challenges,鈥� Gelber wrote of the eight days that have passed between Miami-Dade revealing the existence of the Genting proposal and the commission鈥檚 scheduled July 10 vote to move forward with the bidding process.
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