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Miami-Dade judge awards Florida toll-road contractor $53M

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Tolling will likely play a bigger role in state highway funding, as the president's infrastructure plan puts more of the financing burden on states and local agencies.

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Miami’s 7-acre Link at Douglas breaks ground

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Link at Douglas, a new seven-acre development, will transform Miami-Dade County’s Douglas Road Metrorail station into a mixed-use transit hub.

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Court Ruling Orders Florida Toll-Road Agency To Pay Contractor $53.3M

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A long-running dispute over trouble-prone open-road electronic tolling technology installed on Florida highways hit a key point on Jan. 29, when a state court ruling favored the system contractor over the Miami-Dade Expressway Authority (MDX), awarding the firm $53.3 million in its breach-of-contract and wrongful termination suit.

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Florida DOT Plans to Oversee New Pedestrian Bridge at FIU 2 Years After Deadly Collapse

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2 years ago, an under construction pedestrian bridge on Florida International University’s (FIU) campus collapsed onto the open road below, killing 6 people and injuring several more. According to the Miami Herald , the new bridge will cost $14.6 The construction process is also expected to take an additional 2 years.

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Seawall Snafu Latest Hit to A1A Flood-Mitigation Project

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A $30-million Miami Beach flood-mitigation project along state Road A1A is facing further delays due to permitting issues with its roughly 1-mile-long seawall.

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Berger: FIGG Is Slow To Hand Over All Bridge Collapse Data

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About half an hour before the almost-completed pedestrian bridge collapsed onto a busy Miami-area road last year, killing six people, Denney Pate, the bridge’s engineer-of-record, sent a text to Linda Figg, the chief executive of FIGG Bridge Engineers.

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Florida Toll-Road Agency v. Contractor Battle Heads for Next Court

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million to tolling technology firm, Miami-Dade Expressway Authority wants appeals court review. After lower court awards $53.4

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