Can MDX make payroll if it's abolished? Judge orders emergency hearing to find out
TALLAHASSEE -- Concerned that Miami-Dade’s toll roads could run out of money next week after lawmakers abolished the expressway authority, a Tallahassee judge on Friday gave the state until Monday to show that road operations will not be disrupted or he will temporarily block the law.
“Let me make something clear to you: We are not going to have the toll roads in Dade County not run properly,’’ said Leon County Circuit Court Judge John C. Cooper during a hearing on a lawsuit brought by the Miami-Dade Expressway Authority against the state.
Cooper scheduled an emergency hearing for Monday, July 15, at 11 a.m. to decide whether to temporarily block the law from taking effect as MDX sues the state to invalidate the law that abolishes the county’s toll road authority and replaces it with a new toll board controlled by the state.
“We’re in hurricane season,’’ Cooper said. “A hurricane can crop up real fast, and we don’t want a dysfunctional road system during hurricane season.”
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