Miami-Dade Transit has set March 25 as the date of the next public meeting to discuss plans for the new Metrorail line connecting the Earlington Heights station with the Miami Intermodal Center under construction near the Miami International Airport. The actual meeting will start at 7:00 p.m., with an open-house being held before, at [...]
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Unity is definitely unique…
Robert Samuels, along with other staff writers of the Miami Herald has been writing this week about Unity Boulevard, perhaps better known as 27th Avenue. This thoroughfare traverses four of the most culturally and economically diverse areas of South Florida.
While the article delves into detail on the neighborhoods of Miami Gardens, Opa-Locka, Liberty City, [...]
MDT Meetings Postponed
From MDT:
(Miami-Dade County, FL) — The Feb. 26 and Feb. 28 public meetings on the status of the Miami Intermodal Center (MIC)/Earlington Heights (EHT) Connector Metrorail extension project have been postponed until further notice. The meetings will be rescheduled at a future date.
The MDT North Corridor Saga Continues, Part 1
In case you’ve spent the past couple of days living in a cave (or more likely, not paying attention to local transit news) there is trouble brewing on the horizon (by horizon I clearly mean this week) over at MDT. I know we haven’t touched up on MDT in a while, but we’re long [...]
New Name for Overtown Station
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Vacancies, originally uploaded by ImageMD.
The urban metrorail station in Miami’s Overtown district has been renamed the Historic Overtown/Lyric Theatre station. The recent sale of the Miami arena and the revival of [...]
Mid-Week News and Commentary
It somehow always seems that when Transit/Development news flares up, so do events in our personal lives. In any case, here are some of the top news stories this week, some of which we’ll get around to commenting on:
Local:
The next phase of the Metrorail extension hasn’t even broken ground and already the cost overruns [...]
Has Metrorail’s Train Tracker Affected Your Commute?
Back in November, we showcased Miami-Dade Transit’s new “Train Tracker” program, which is supposed to allow Metrorail riders to easily locate trains and know exactly when they are projected to arrive at your departing station.
We want to know if you’ve used it, and how effective/accurate it has been thus far. Has it made your commute [...]
Mid Week News
Tri-Rail carried more passengers in 2007 than in 2006. The overall system ridership is up 31% since march 2006…
City of Miami is working on identifying vacant lots to be used for park space…
The County Commission is trying to get the state and federal government to kick in hundreds of millions of dollars for metrorail [...]
MDT Introduces Train Tracker for Metrorail
Miami-Dade Transit is finally rolling out some high(er) tech service upgrades, which should make riding Metrorail at least somewhat more pleasant and definitely more predictable. From the MDT press release:
(MIAMI, November 2, 2007) – Miami-Dade Transit is proud to announce a new online system that allows Metrorail customers to check the next train’s arrival time [...]
Could the North Corridor be Threatened by Juvenile Politics?
If you read the Herald yesterday, you probably saw this article. It’s not so hard to believe given the bizarre political culture of Miami-Dade, but the proposed North Corridor extension of the Metrorail may be in trouble.
Apparently, the administration of Miami-Dade College North Campus has been working with county transit planners for the last three [...]
Kendall Transit Clarification
In a post I published last week on the transit options available to the Kendall residents, our message may have been presented unclearly and biased towards the CSX rail option. I’d like to clarify this position and reiterate the true stance of Transit Miami on this hotly contested issue.The CSX corridor was never meant [...]
Pig on Our Bay, Pt II
Is it me, or is Miami on the fast track to epic surreality?
Yesterday, Gabriel opined about how ridiculous the commission-initiated plan was to construct a Bay of Pigs museum on Parcel B behind the American Airlines Arena. Though he did a great job illustrating the bad urban design and architecture of the project, I felt [...]
27th Avenue Makeover Plan 90% Complete
This past Tuesday, the county presented its 90% completion for the proposed 27th Avenue makeover project. There has been little deviation from the 30% rendering, which calls for the following improvements:
Addition of bike lanes
Addition of on-street parking
Removal of most private, on-site parking
Addition of tree-planted median (and more shade trees for sidewalks)
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1989 Metrorail Discussions
18 years later, tell me what’s the difference…
“I’d Use it if it went in the direction I was going”
“The system is only Half of what they originally promised…”
“I’m just amazed at how virtually nothing has changed in the 18 years that this clip was filmed. It’s as relevant now as it was back then.” [...]
MIC: Regional Transit Hub
This article has been brewing in my mind for quite some time; however, I kept putting off until I saw some sort of definite progress occurring over at the Miami Intermodal Center. With their new website up and running (finally!) we can get some better insight to some of my more pressing concerns, [...]
