Ray...you'll see government do something smart like electric street-cars between downtown and the beach, when you see "chickens with lips". In the 1950's GM and Firestone or was it Goodyear...conspired to "Do Away" with most electric street-cars in almost all US cities. This so that they could convert "Mass-Transit" to Buses built by GM that ran on Diesel (fossil-fuel) refined by big-oil and use rubber tires made with petroleum made by the big tire manufactures. I can't for the life-of-me imagine what their motivation was.....My Dad and Nana, before passing away, told me that they rode electric street-cars from Miami to the beach.
Wow, signs of mass transit between Miami Beach and the mainland! I wonder when someone will get that idea again.
I remember hearing some good news... the two high bridges that replaced the MacArthur drawbridge are spaced so that there could be MetroRail tracks between them. Maybe some day.