Metrorail (Metro) in Miami, Florida, USA 2021 (30 Minute Frequency on Weekend??)

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  • Опубликовано: 27 сен 2021
  • Metrorail is the heavy rail rapid transit system of Miami and Miami-Dade County in the U.S. state of Florida. Metrorail is operated by Miami-Dade Transit (MDT), a departmental agency of Miami-Dade County. Opened in 1984, it is Florida's only rapid transit metro system, and is currently composed of two lines of 23 stations on 24.4 miles (39.3 km) of standard gauge track. Metrorail serves the urban core of Miami, connecting the urban centers of Miami International Airport, the Civic Center, Downtown Miami, and Brickell with the northern developed neighborhoods of Hialeah and Medley to the northwest, and to suburban The Roads, Coconut Grove, Coral Gables, and South Miami, ending at urban Dadeland in Kendall. Metrorail connects to the Metromover in Downtown, which provides metro service to the entirety of Downtown and Brickell. Additionally, it connects to South Florida's commuter rail system at Tri-Rail station, as well as Metrobus routes at all stations. Together with Metromover, the system saw steady ridership growth per annum, with an average of 105,500 daily passengers in 2013.
    In 2012, Metrorail opened its 23rd station, Miami International Airport station, at Miami International Airport (MIA), opening a newly created 16-station Orange Line between the MIA and Dadeland South stations. The new line is expected to increase ridership significantly, adding millions of riders per year[5] and allowing residents and visitors alike direct access from the MIA to Downtown Miami, as well as greater connectivity between various modes of transit throughout Miami-Dade County. Central station provides direct service to Amtrak inter-city rail services, Tri-Rail commuter rail, Greyhound Lines intercity bus and the Rental Car Center. Miami Central Station is expected to attract 150,000 daily commuters and travelers ~Wikipedia
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  • @TheLIRRFrenchie...
    @TheLIRRFrenchie... 2 года назад +15

    This system is in dire need of an upgrade and expansion 😌!!

    • @R262SubwayTrain
      @R262SubwayTrain 5 месяцев назад

      The Proposed New Blue Line Run to Hard Rock Stadium, The East-West Corridor was Was having Option and The Orange Line Extension is in one of the options

  • @PRHILL9696
    @PRHILL9696 3 месяца назад +1

    Miami sure has grown since I rode these trains in the mid 90s!

  • @FernandoZavalaTAT
    @FernandoZavalaTAT 2 года назад +7

    2:38 the Earlington Heights-Airport shuttle operation. It's actually pretty cool since they try to make it a perfect cross platform transfer. Not actually perfect but decent.

  • @rodgerp.639
    @rodgerp.639 2 года назад +3

    Great action shots. Some of the platforms definitely need attention, e.g., gras growing between the tiles and uneven platform tiles.

  • @FernandoZavalaTAT
    @FernandoZavalaTAT 2 года назад +7

    It's been every 30 minutes evenings and weekends ever since the Orange Line was truncated to a shuttle when covid hit. They've started the process of reinstating it full time and are training new T/O's to fill the slots, so I hope as soon as November.

    • @edwardmiessner6502
      @edwardmiessner6502 2 года назад +2

      30 minutes that's stupidly infrequent! When they bought those cars they should have automated the system like Vancouver's Skytrain and run frequent trains like every 2 or 3 minutes. One subway with frequent trains is the same as an expressway with 20 lanes of traffic each way.

    • @edwardmiessner6502
      @edwardmiessner6502 2 года назад +1

      PS I went to the U of Miami in the mid 80s. When the Metrorail opened the trains were like every 15 minutes.

    • @R262SubwayTrain
      @R262SubwayTrain 4 месяца назад

      ​@@edwardmiessner6502Well Covid Mess Up Everything, Soon Services Will Be Back to Normal

  • @scottyerkes1867
    @scottyerkes1867 2 года назад

    Thanks Tim for sharing this metro system with us. The system has really grown since it first opened.
    👍👍😄😄

  • @user-hd8yx3jf7o
    @user-hd8yx3jf7o 2 года назад +1

    Very nice video💛

  • @JacobOhlssonBudinger
    @JacobOhlssonBudinger 2 года назад +7

    A four carriage train every 30 mins? Let’s call the capacity of the average train carriage 100, that comes out to 800 per direction per hour for capacity. Let’s be nice and round it to 1000. Even on weekends, surely that’s just stupidly low, (the Victoria line in London has a capacity of ~40,000 for comparison)

    • @Shinycelebi
      @Shinycelebi 2 года назад +2

      Hardly a good comparison. It's really a purposeless line that is in dire need for expanding with a branch line and a connection to another line that stays in a small area. Busses and Cars take up the majority of Florida.

    • @trevordance5181
      @trevordance5181 2 года назад +3

      There are plenty of places "in the sticks" in the UK that get a much better frequency of service than that and more carriages per train too.

    • @edwardmiessner6502
      @edwardmiessner6502 2 года назад +2

      Yes I know but on our side of the pond politicians especially Republicans are notoriously stingy with public transport investment, operation, and upkeep

    • @xoxxobob61
      @xoxxobob61 2 года назад

      @@edwardmiessner6502 Remember that to them Mass transit is for "liberuls" and " the Poor" !

  • @AutobusPassion
    @AutobusPassion 2 года назад

    Très belle vidéo 👍👍👍

  • @suejoshappy
    @suejoshappy Год назад +1

    30 minute wait is absolutely ridiculous.

  • @wavemaker10111
    @wavemaker10111 2 года назад +9

    If I didn’t know for a fact that these trains are brand new, I’d guess they were 20 years old. It’s a shame we can’t get some truly modern rolling stock on American metros. Open gangways anyone???

    • @losh330
      @losh330 2 года назад +2

      You'll have to go to New York and Atlanta in a few years for that.

    • @edwardmiessner6502
      @edwardmiessner6502 2 года назад +1

      Fear of crime is difficult to overcome. At a stop you could flee the criminal and escape to the next car and be safe. So the US transit authorities theory goes. Real reality he'll just chase you and you'll have to fight others getting on and off. Whereas on a gangway you'll get to attract more people's attention.

  • @TheAnomics1
    @TheAnomics1 2 года назад +1

    I wish Dallas Used the Hitachi Trains for its future D2 subway. Love the Look, sound and Design.
    Prefer Heavy and commuter over the Continuous light rail.
    The new SilverLine in Northern Dallas will use the Stadler Flirt for commuter service

  • @arkyfer197
    @arkyfer197 2 года назад +1

    👌🏽

  • @chou3595
    @chou3595 2 года назад +5

    30 minutes its toooooo long time to wait not a surprise being so little used....

    • @AnthonyIsAUP4449
      @AnthonyIsAUP4449 7 месяцев назад

      only on weekends, week days is a much less wait.

    • @R262SubwayTrain
      @R262SubwayTrain 5 месяцев назад

      It runs 30 Min on the Weekends, 10 Min on Peak, 15 Min on Off Peak, The Headway will change will the New Line open

  • @britishcorndog6079
    @britishcorndog6079 2 года назад +4

    Ah yes, the subway that is not a subway

    • @andrefourtier100
      @andrefourtier100 2 года назад +1

      😁

    • @natenae8635
      @natenae8635 2 года назад +3

      Hey it’s Florida they had too no other way around it.

    • @CreatorPolar
      @CreatorPolar 2 года назад

      @@natenae8635 maybe build light rail instead of wasting shit loads more money on an infrequent heavy metro system

    • @natenae8635
      @natenae8635 2 года назад

      @@CreatorPolar That too but the metro was needed. The area heavily populated they just however need to as you said make the service more frequent.

    • @ZazzelTheGamer
      @ZazzelTheGamer 2 года назад

      Chicago has something like this, so what's the suprise?

  • @centredoorplugsthornton4112
    @centredoorplugsthornton4112 2 года назад

    See the disused Brightline terminal a couple times. Supposed to restart in November.

    • @CreatorPolar
      @CreatorPolar 2 года назад

      I’m pretty sure they have already reopened operations

  • @Lafv
    @Lafv 2 года назад

    3:44 some kid in the background goes “can i get a hooyah?”

  • @esteranglesiobzhzhdhdhdhdh9870
    @esteranglesiobzhzhdhdhdhdh9870 Месяц назад +1

    41 Zecchino d'Oro nel 1998

  • @kenmills4739
    @kenmills4739 2 года назад +2

    Looks like a combination of Vancouver's Skyway system, Tokyo's JNR system, a hint of Chicago's CTA, a dash of Washington DC's WMATA, and bits-n-pieces of other foreign cities with their Metrorail systems (scenic backgrounds like London's Docklands Railway); at some point, the line does run on the surface coming from the Southwestern direction before reaching downtown, although it IS completely elevated and could easily pass as a monorail: the Television show 'Miami Vice' and a local getting summonsed for feeding her baby on the train introduced me to The Metrorail. . . with all that monies mammy spent on building @#$%^&*☆○! highrise condominiums in a single bound-and that's nationwide too-you mean to tell me that same amount of money can't be spent on rapid transit expansion???

  • @hassanalihusseini1717
    @hassanalihusseini1717 2 года назад

    Sweet-sad memories....

  • @jpgm2015
    @jpgm2015 Год назад

    @2:41 anybody know why they are going the same direction ?

  • @MJofLakelandX
    @MJofLakelandX 2 года назад

    So, Miami is no different from Baltimore Metro Subway. We really are brothers in arms

    • @xoxxobob61
      @xoxxobob61 2 года назад

      Baltimore & Miami cooperated together when they both were building their Metro systems and Co-Bid on the BUDD Metro Cars to get some savings. Miami has replaced all of their BUDD train cars now.