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Big plans unveiled for proposed Underline path below Miami-Dade Metrorail

Miami Herald: A coalition of citizens and government agencies has unveiled a mightily ambitious master plan by an eminent design firm that would transform the threadbare path under the Metrorail along South Dixie Highway into a garland of verdant gardens, playgrounds and recreational spots linked by 10 miles of side-by-side bike and pedestrian trails.

The vision is expansive: From the downtown lip of the Miami River, where the plan calls for an outdoor viewing “room” composed of cascading stone steps, to suburban Dadeland, where it contemplates workout stations and sports courts cradled between Metrorail’s two southernmost stations, the proposed Underline would embed alternative transportation within a long, slender park to create a potentially defining urban amenity.

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