Miami's Metrorail & Metromover Network Evolution
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- Опубликовано: 3 июл 2021
- From its beginning in 1984, Miami's metrorail, people mover, commuter rail, busway network has grown to 87 stations, spanning 122 miles (196 kilometers). This animated video takes you through the timeline of when new stations were opened, forming the MDT network that we know today.
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- Marc Averette - Own work, CC BY 3.0, commons.wikimedia.org/w/index...
- Phillip Pessar - Flickr: Tri Rail Miami Airport Station, CC BY 2.0, commons.wikimedia.org/w/index...
- Phillip from Miami, USA - Palmetto Metro Rail Station, CC BY 2.0, commons.wikimedia.org/w/index...
- Ed Webster - Flickr: Miami Metromover, CC BY 2.0, commons.wikimedia.org/w/index...
- Phillip - Flickr: Delray Beach Amtrak And Tri-Rail Station, CC BY 2.0, commons.wikimedia.org/w/index...
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Miami Metrorail Orange Line heavy rail transit
Miami Metrorail Green Line heavy rail transit
Miami Metromover Inner Loop people mover
Miami Metromover Omni Loop people mover
Miami Metromover Brickell Loop people mover
Miami Tri-Rail commuter rail
Miami South Dade Transitway busway
Miami's Rapid Transit is terribly small. Suburbs radiate out west from downtown with only city buses. Traffic clogs every roadway. There should be at least 6 more lines running east and west. There should be a major line running from the Dolphin mall to Miami beach. It could stop at the airport, the arts district, the children's museum and then the beach. Perfect for moving commuters and tourists
A connection FIU as well.
I would be so fucking happy if they did that
There’s already a bus that goes to dolphin mall and it goes to Mia and you can transfer to another bus that takes you to Miami Beach and that is express
So true especially given the growth and size of the area it should be significantly larger. A combination of light rail and brt could also work in the suburbs connecting to the heavy commuter rails.
Welcome to America… Atleast Miami is ahead of the curve as far as transit is concerned
Who could forget the 2002 half penny tax that was supposed to expand the Metrorail and the the county mismanaged. The only bit of Metrorail expansion we ever saw was the orange line to the Airport.
they'll come back for the other half "to expand"
@@ReelTeaseFishing No they're already building an Express Busway in the south end of the county but the current mayor has touted the North end expansion to Hard Rock stadium. Had the county just went along with the original plan we would have Metro Rail to all quadrants. Even if the current administration says one thing in 5 years down the road it won't happen. I will believe it when I see it.
Mismanaged? More like stole!
I'd love a video on what COULD have been Miami's Metrorail if they did the expansions to the suburbs.
Bro I want them to move it north so bad to where I live that's my wet dream literally biking is faster than sitting in traffic going south
Miami and even Ft Lauderdale suburbs need it badly
@@spektree8448 TTC is by far the best rapid transport network, along with bus rapid lanes , many bus routes , many street car routes and many LRT routes to use , even a vast huge inter region train network, spanning 200km of commuter lines , the largest network expansion ever to be constructed by metrolinks too , 14 minutes all day service to all towns around the Golden Horseshoe area. This is by far the best rail and rapid transit in North America next to MTA and NJ
I often forget Miami has a heavy and light rail system. The MetroMover is a very clever concept to compliment the Metrorail (and it's free!). I know Miami is working to expand their commuter rail system but I wonder if they plan on expanding the Metrorail system. I also think Miami is one of the only US cities that built a heavy rail system in the late 20th century (along with DC and LA). Love your videos! It's so interesting to see the history behind these transit programs
Wow, the last time I was in Miami (it's been a long time) and used the Metromover it cost 25¢ per ride.
They have been planning to expand the Metrorail system from its inception, but lack of ridership meeting initial projected targets, political will, and money have prevented any meaningful expansion. Wikipeodia has the main history online, and there a some other blogs here and there that talk about it. Also, Baltimore and the Bay area built late 20th century heavy rail systems as well as Atlanta. Fun fact the Baltimore Metro uses the same Budd Cars as the Miami Metrorail. They saved money on the order because both places ordered the same car, and that was the last order before Budd went out of business. Since then, Miami has been upgrading their fleet to Hitachi actually made in Miami area in a new Hitachi plant, and Baltimore still uses the Budd cars.
@@akivaplutno BART has been expanding a lot though. The most recent was only a year ago.
@@akivaplutno That's the catch 22 with transit. Can't expand the system cause ridership is low but ridership is low because the system can't be expanded
Atlanta built one too and Baltimore built a lousy single line
I went to the University of Miami 1979-83 and remained in Miami another 20 months. I know the utter vastness of South Florida and the Metrorail network is really bare bones even for Miami Dade County. And the politicians keep talking about expanding the rail and promising to do it but they keep giving the citizens of MDC more busses instead including the South Dixie Highway buswsy 2.0. (See? I keep up!)
I mean at least they doing something with brt
When Miami people make salaries like they do in New Jersey Connecticut and nyc then you will see expansions beyond ten miles on the metro.
In November of 2021, Brightline plans to restart service between West Palm Beach, Ft. Lauderdale and Miami. Brightline is also building new commuter stops in Aventura and Boca Raton. Don't forget Amtrak also services Miami with a stop next to but not connected to the Metro-Rail/Tri-Rail transfer station in Hialeah. Amtrak also stops in Hollywood, Ft. Lauderdale and West Palm Beach.
I should add, Amtrak was supposed to stop at the Miami Intermodal Center with Tri-Rail and Metro- Rail all in the same building. However, someone did not notice that the Amtrak trains are too long for the new station and end up blocking a nearby highway. So the Millions of dollars spent building that part of the Intermodal Center was wasted since Amtrak can not use the new platform.
I think Amtrack is now able to stop at MIA Intermodal Center, but is only in the testing phase.
But who wants to spend Amtrak money to travel locally short distance?
I took a vacation to Miami for a week a week ago! Great timing
As a Miami-native, this city has the WORST public transportation system I’ve ever seen. The metro doesn’t expand way south to Homestead. they had plans to build the metro rail via Flagler but that was scrapped when they first build the metro rail, leaving western parts of Miami disconnected. There’s no Metro heading to south beach, and it’s just slow on the weekends. Miami’s public transport system is a joke for a major urban population.
But it beats the hell out of Tampa’s lol we don’t even have one except the tourist used street cars that only connects ybor to channel side and that hasn’t even upgraded nor expanded in 20 years when it was brought back. They claim it want work because of the weather but I look at Miami, phoenix,LA and even Orlando has their version of a metro rail system! And this has been in talks for over 30 years!! Brightline was even supposed to start in Tampa then end in Orlando, eventually servicing Miami but we all see how that played out smh. We wish we had half of Miamis rail system over here in Tampa.
There is an entire expansion plan for the whole region planned for the Miami area, what happened to all of those?
What about the famous screw up at the new Miami Airport station that has stopped Amtrak from being able to use it? Someone didn't get the right measurement of an Amtrak train thus when Amtrak pulls in, it would block the street beside the airport for over half an hour. This time is needed to detrain passengers, luggage, and supplies. If someone had paid attention, the platform would be in the correct place and the road moved over.
Damn
Indeed, he/she only had one job. Miss calculated by 1,000 feet
Amtrak has no desire to use Miami Airport. So reconstruction was a waste of money and time
@@SheldonBoyce-Payne they actually do because they want to get rid of the old station outside of town due to how aged and inconvenient it is. The airport station will Integrate into other transit networks, getting Amtrak more riders.
@@TrainMike2013 partially true. They just started picking up the concrete from the failed platform a week ago in front of the station a week ago. We'll see lol
From what I heard, they are finally expanding the subway, and it should be a pretty expansion. I'm sure it will take forever and a half though
It'll go up to Hard Rock Stadium from MLK Station, a very much needed connection
It not a Subway call it Metrorail or Heavy Rail or HRT
A recommendation I have is that the train stations need to have a protective fencing with gates between the train-line and the passenger waiting area - the area between the train-line and the fence should be a path wide enough for a wheelchair to pass along through. What do you think Zach?
Thank you for this. I always hear about the people mover, not anything else. So I'm very sure its very popular with the locals.
It is truly one out of few people movers that supercedes every other transit in a major city.
The people mover is literally slower than skateboard lmao only useful if you don't have a skateboard/bike or live far away and get to the area by sriving
It's the same driverless technology as 1980's Vancouver's Skytrain. Except the Miami's system is neglected, broken, slow, and useless for most of the local and visitors. The harsh tropical weather and county's corruption only speeds up the system's neglect with most escalators broken and not one wants to get stuck in and elevator from 1985 in this heat and humidity.
Love the video! Great production & very informative! How did you get the map to reveal each section at a time?
I remember being down here in the late 1970s on vacation, seeing a news story about disagreement about metro rail! Before it was fully approved!
I was wondering which stop had been eliminated on TriRail, thanks for the info.
i was waiting for this one i love the metro mover
Don't forget they have reopened the Brightline train service from Downtown Miami to West Palm Beach and eventually to Orlando
Too add to my comment, Brightline Trains have opened additional stations in Aventura and Boca Raton . Later this year Brightline is scheduled to extend their service all the way to the Orlando Airport. It will serve as both a local Commuter line and a long distance line.
I really like your videos. You do a great job. Thank you very much for doing these videos. I bet one of your challenges would be Chicago Transit authority the evolution of the network. And of course there's metra. And the South shore railroad. There's a bunch of stuff.
Plus in 2022, Brightline (TriRail) will go all the way to Orlando. About a decade later, the Tampa extension should be complete.
Nice video!
I’ve rode the Tri-rail to MIA several times. The problem is frequency and grade crossings and old heavily polluting locomotives that are frequently slicing cars in half and expensive upkeep. Speed between stations is good but frequency is nearly every half hour during peak and every hour off peak and weekends.
It's much worse now. Brightline now flies thru on old freight tracks all at grade in the most dense area of the FL hitting everything on it's way. Same heavy smoke and noise pollution with smell of diesel and horn blaring alternating with sounds and smells of smashed vehicles and pedestrians. Now Tri-rial will join on the fun thru this section of residential downtown Miami too. Brightline in Miami area is already the deadliest rail line in the history of the US.
@@Meeshusa You make it sound like is their problem and that anything can be done. The grade crossing issue you presented cannot be fixed, the clearance to make bridges and tunnels for roadways in miami is now non existent, the crossings will remain. Cars getting smashed is the idiocy and impatience of the drivers in Florida. If you've ever looked at any videos especially those taken here of cars getting hit the car is always the problem, so much so Brightline is confident enough to release the recordings of them.
Brightline uses the best diesels you're going to get, SC42 Siemen Chargers, and are extremely quiet, take that from some1 whos not only ridden on them but has seen them trackside, can't hear them coming, only way to know is by seeing those signals light up.
The tracks aren't old, many of brightines tracks are actually fairly new being constructed a little over a year ago, the oldest ones being in Miami which get replaced as needed. When Brightine was announced FECR, or Florida East Coast Railroad, replaced almost all the tracks Brightline would be running and those that weren't were because they were in good enough condition, their already were concrete tied, and have been since before the 70s.
What horns are you talking about? Miami, Fort Lauderdale, and West Palm, and surrounding areas are ALL quiet zones. They don't honk for crossings. Only places which are not would be from Hollywood to MIA INT station, and this doesn't apply to Brightline, they are truly all quiet zones.
The pollution output of a Tri Rail train shouldn't be problem when you consider that if all the passengers in at least 1 car of a 3 car consist were using cars instead would pollute much more. The oldest engines on Tri Rail today are going to leave the system soon, those being the the GP49s which i covered on my channel. The freq on Tri Rail is good when you consider is a 70+ mile line, to increase freq the amount of trains to be added would be so costly it wouldn't make sense for even a 10 minute increase. Nor does Tri Rail have the road power (locos) and passenger cars for that anyway.
Tri Rail feq is very good for what they have, their roadpower position is also good having rebuilt their old F40PH-2C into 3C standards and having newer BL36PHs.
Nicely done. There is also Brightline trains and Amtrak
brightline is a privately owned rail line, and it isnt considered a public line yet.
Great video. There's currently a development happening underneath the metro rail line to turn it into one big long park. It currently is only finished under Brickell. Also the airport station is what's called the Intermodal center.
Wow 80 stations impressive
Nice!
The system needs to connect to the Miami Amtrak station and to the cruise port.
Amtrak station is currently 500 m from an existing Metro rail stop. I honestly think that Amtrak should either terminate in the Miami Central in downtown or Miami Airport.
@@justsamoo3480 I heard that Brightline will expand to port of Miami
@@R262SubwayTrain It's too dumb of an idea for them to do that, a dedicated Metromover or Metrorail link would better serve the area, and as for Brightline, a complimentary motorcoach could be thrown in for guests traveling to the port via Brightline+.
@@justsamoo3480 Fun fact they were supposed to term at MIA Airport however due to train lengths among other things this never happened
Do a video on Dallas Texas please!!
I have also been wanting this! Maybe after the silver line opening. Dallas’ system is definitely under appreciated and is huge in scope.
I lived in Dallas for 7 years. DART carries less than 100,000 people and has been a disaster. I wouldn’t advertise DART. I live in DC and thank god we have real rapid transit. 750,000 people a day.
@@dsti-xi7dl The reason DART rail ridership is a failure is because Dart gamble on aligning rails along the freeways to suburbs instead of planing rail in areas where the people actually needed it. The green line park and ride lots are 75 percent empty most of the time with the exception of the end of the line park and ride. Dart expected a lot of commuters from the freeway but that didn't happen. Dallas County has more than 2.5 million residences and Dart rail has 90mile of track. Dart should be carrying at least 400,000 people a day.
Could you do one of these for Denver's RTD if you haven't already?
He has already done Denver.
@@SpaceboyYT Well yes, but my comment was from 6 months ago, and 6 months ago he hadn’t.
One observation: Museum Park station is not a new station that opened on the Omni line but simply the reopening and renaming of Bicentennial Park station.
What software do you use for mapping?
Is there a reason why Brightline isn’t included in this map?
It‘s high speed intercity rail.
Because it will be bankrupt soon just like every other private rail system.
/s
@@denizalgazi No, it won't...
@@denizalgazi no it wont stfu
It's not really "public" transit. It's a privately owned and operated semi-high-speed rail venture. Tri-rail may operate commuter rail service along its route in the future.
It would be nice if all of these train systems could all be one and the same, not to mention adding tracks to south beach
The coach from the airport to South Beach is very convenient already.
The coach from the airport to South Beach is very convenient already.
my cousin is the head of transport for miami beach and he’s told me that he wants to get the metrorail extended into miami beach, but he’s being pushed back mostly because of money
i’d love to see more metrorail expansions but it seems that money is consistently an issue in expanding it
You'll probably need to update this to include Brightline; while not intended as a commuter system, the addition of the Aventura station will undoubtedly attract some commuters.
Miami has a huge flaw that you may not see in the map, and that is that a very large population that makes up a good amount of Dade county's population, is all to the west of Dadeland south. Metrorail has always had a huge potential, still does, but only if one is to be forward thinking and bring either light rail or heavy rail to areas west of the 826. Even the Busway to FL city was a cheap way out of extending Metrorail. The amount of money that is wasted on expanding the expressways has now eclipsed the price tag of any heavy or light rail line expansion. Since I was in JR HS, the 836, 826, I-95, etc... have gone through constant expansions at ridiculously high costs, and do nothing to eliminate traffic, lower the number of accidents, and help the environment. Even Tri-Rail and Brightline all fall short of serving a very heavily populated area to the west that in reality could be considered the suburbs of Miami. Like wise, anyone who lives in Miami will tell you, most jobs are NOT in the downtown area. Many are located in the Doral, Medley, Miami Lakes, and Miami Springs area. Metrorail does not connect people who live west of the 826 or Turnpike, and ends too far to serve most of the areas mentioned above where much of the warehouse sector, manufacturing, and trade takes place.
The sad part is that they should have finished the rail to go past MIA and loop around through 137 ave and connect to Kendall, to which they could have looped back to Dadeland exit. The traffic in Kendall is awful, too many residents trying to go North. If a transit authority is reading this, please fix this absurd problem, ten years of traffic woes. I had to move north to get away, and to this day to get from 137 to 117, in Kendall, it takes 30-40 mins. It's incredible the amount of corruption involved in the state and local government, the sunpass money that y'all have, where does it all go? Because it's not toward creating better transportation alternatives, we just see the same construction for over 15 years, bottlenecking highways and roads. How long has that new highway been under construction? It's awful.
Bike?
@@spektree8448 Too far, slow, and vulnerable to weather.
as e person who lives in miami it was nice seeing this video
Coming from nyc so I have authority on this subject.
since we have been using mass transit for hundreds of years. I think if the people made more money.
then by now it would of reached every location. The bottom line is you cant expand without money
and Miami people there salaries
do not generate enough money
For services just the way it is
80 percent of the people in Miami
Make 35 k....
So it does what it can.
I'm very satisfied with it.
it would be cool to know about New jersey transit and septa
Septa is coming this fall
Freedom Tower was closed on July 21 of last year until the summer of next year do to work on the station.
What happened to the long promised, North Corridor. That was go up 27th Avenue, to Dolphins football stadium. Continuing up, to the Broward County line.
It's been over, 25 years now. And there's NEVER, any more discussion. About whether, it'll ever be done. But it was to be the reward for Black support, for the half cent sales tax. That has funded most of the newer, metro train routes.
The same thing that happened to the Homestead extension. Too much conflict between political interests & more importantly NO MONEY. The half cent tax money was stolen by the corrupt Miami mayor of that time. A line to the Hard Rock stadium is a fantastic idea that would generate so much revenue that it would pay for its self, at the same time giving Maimi Dade College North Campus a station.
I forgot there is also a train that connects the Miami intermodal center to the airport
Forgot The Tri Rail Map!
Sweet, south florida
Are u eventually gonna do New York?
New York I think he said was going to be last
You forgot brickell but otherwise a great video!
Metro rail is now expanding North down 27th Ave
Tri-Rail interchanges with Metro Rail at 79th st Hialeah
I almost *collapsed* when I saw you made this video!
Such a shame that it doesn't go anywhere near the ballpark
No one goes to that ballpark anyhow.
It does go there, there's Lyric Theater Station, Government Center, & Viscaya. You can take ride share or ride the 55 Marlins Park Bus that runs on continuous service when there's a game. www8.miamidade.gov/global/transportation/marlins-route.page
@@thedirtybubble9613 Depends wether you like baseball or not. I remember the last time I went to a Marlins game, there were plenty of people riding the Metro Rail. It's more convenient than parking. Me personally, I'de prefer a line to the Hard Rock Stadium.
@@shechshire yeah no kidding the Metro Rail needs expansion but it doesn't go by Marlins park.
@@thedirtybubble9613 www8.miamidade.gov/global/transportation/marlins-route.page
PHILLY!!!
Miami metro rail began in 1984, the same year that the hit prime time cop TV drama Miami vice debuted on NBC 1984-89 and make the city famous
Congratulations sunshine I went to that sunshine State you haven’t done Portland Oregon
I know someone brought it up…but where’s the Brightline?
Can you do Metro North
Can you do Philadelphia?
As a local MIAMI’S PUBLIC TRANSIT SUCKS!!!
Finally
They SHOULD expand Metrorail ASAP. Their transit system is still not at its full potential. We need at least a Metrorail along Flagler or SW 8th Street and one servicing the NW Miami - Dade community. And this is coming from a New Yorker
So what’s next? SF? DFW?
I grew up in the subways during 80/90’s in New York and started using Miamis metro rail….. it makes no sense unless you live in Miami , which makes no sense lol
I didn’t know Miami had bus rapid transit as well.
That bus line used to be rail. It should be rail again.
The trains looks like the metro train in la
Do one for Philadelphia’s septa
Coming this fall
needs to connect all miami one that goes west west kendall and one least 200st .
I detest the South Dade Busway. They paved over railroad tracks (almost as if they didn't learn a damned thing from the death of the streetcars) to build a new road parallel to and mere yards from US-1 that crosses EVERY single intersecting road AT GRADE and adds another set of traffic signals and signage to clutter the visual landscape and confuse the drivers within it. Considering that this part of the region is designated a high-growth area, they should have planned to continue MetroRail along this corridor from the start and skipped the whole BRT money bonfire (the best use of old railroad rights of way in urban environments is to implement NEW rail transit). On the bright side (NOT a Brightline pun), at least it can be considered a rail bank and later up-converted to MetroRail with a simultaneous extension of the Underline linear hike-and-bike park.
This is a weird question but do you think you will ever do evolution of fictional metros at some point (If they have a backstory). For example, the evolution of a metro system in a video game.
Good idea! There are plenty of cities with metro networks that have been built or are being built on cities skylines. Their stories are being presented on RUclips.
@@edwardmiessner6502 Such as City Planner Plays Verde Beach
Home to the only successful downtown urban people mover system in the country!
"Successful"
I think I like the idea what they going to do the new Transit way and as far as they doing it as much as they can it's time they getting it just in time for the revolution of the new Transit way and as far as I'm concerned it's going to be a great one and once they finished the new Transit way everybody will be riding on the Transit way and their buses and as far as they doing as much as they can the future is about to begin and starting new Transit way.
Most of the county is underserved by slow bus services. The metro rail is far from where the majority of the county lives
As a tourist in Miami I found no elements of the public transport on offer in any way useful. The metromover looked like a Buck Rogers set and would be easily replicated with buses and bus lanes
Shout out 2my se bmx bike riders yeeeeeee .....this our way of skipping thru the town
NEW YORK CITY PLS
Doesn’t even go to the airport :.. they have to build trains from airport to south beach this is ridiculous !
The metrorail goes to the airport
Their 🍊 Orange 🚇 Line could have been extended east along the Julia Tuttle Causeway to the Beach. Lost opportunity there.
There's already an express coach from the airport to South Beach for a couple dollars.
There's already an express coach from the airport to South Beach for a couple dollars. A train ticket would probably cost $15!
3:50 everything wrong with American transit summed up
Lol
I guess you’ll never do Chicago :/
Chicago should be soon he doing the us city's.
I gotta say, my State really does know how to form a good transportation network
You really need to factor check your city populations.
He always does metropolitan area populations.
@@7beachbum Thank you for the clarification 👍
Sadly South Florida is way too car centric. I have family there and when I go visit they look at me like Im insane taking public transportation
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They've done alot over the last 3.5 decades. That's why u can't park for free there lol.
Get rid of MDX, it has done nothing for Miami. Construction is slow, and all that's doing is taking up lanes causing more traffic.
they Renamed WTC a year after the WTC bombing🤔
They should’ve built the I 95 extension to Homestead on that piece of land instead of the Miami metro which no one uses anyway
Or just made the metro good i95 always clogged bumper to bumper anyways