Miami Today reports, “In the latest turn in a long drive to control five Miami-Dade toll roads,” a Florida circuit court judge this week ordered the Bank of America to give control of accounts and funds maintained by the county-backed Miami-Dade Expressway Authority (MDX) to its would-be successor, the state-backed Greater Miami Expressway Agency (GMX). The judge held that MDX was dissolved as a matter of state law and replaced by GMX. MDX remains in operation today and responded to the new ruling by stating it plans to seek injunctive relief in another court. The article notes that GMX and Florida DOT have previously failed to obtain court orders to enforce a 2019 law that purports to dissolve MDX. In fact, a separate case still pending in another judicial district challenges a judgment against GMX that was based on the court’s ruling that the 2019 law was flawed.
