County learns an expensive lesson from taxpayers’ pockets

Miami Today

County learns an expensive lesson from taxpayers’ pockets

Miami-Dade officials vowed five years ago to put us on the cutting edge of electric bus technology. Today we’re bleeding at that cutting edge as we try to put the bus decision into reverse. It was a classic case of a glittering new toy to play with using taxpayer cash. Today the county is admitting that not all was gold that glittered – it was just fool’s gold. Problems began in October 2019 when the county contracted to buy 75 all-electric buse…