13 Facts About Miami Metrorail

The successful Dadeland garages are at or over capacity, with two of Miami Metrorail's proposed extensions, the West Kendall Corridor and South Link, intended to help alleviate them.

Miami Metrorail briefly ran a 24-hour hourly service from 12am to 5am and rush hour peak headways were reduced to 6 minutes, but the idea of the transit tax was sold to voters as being able to fund up to 88.

Original Miami Metrorail line was initially planned to be built to the airport, but due to political pressure and lobbying was instead directed to its current alignment around the airport and to Hialeah.

Miami Metrorail connects to the Metromover system at Government Center and Brickell stations and to South Florida's Tri-Rail suburban commuter rail system at the Tri-Rail station.

Since completion of the Airport Link in 2012, Miami Metrorail increased its service frequency to peak headways of three and a half to five minutes on the shared portion of the line from Dadeland South to Earlington Heights.

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The platform at each Miami Metrorail station is long enough to accommodate six-car-long trains; the Dadeland North, Earlington Heights, and Government Center station platforms are long enough to accommodate eight-car-long trains.

Miami Metrorail currently uses 136 heavy-rail cars built by the Hitachi Rail Italy, the first of which started running in December 2017.

Miami Metrorail formerly used 136 heavy-rail cars built by the Budd Company under the name "Transit America"; they are identical to those used on the Baltimore Metro SubwayLink, as the two systems were built at the same time, and the two agencies were able to save money by sharing a single order.

The Baltimore-Miami Metrorail order was among the last orders Budd filled before shuttering its railcar manufacturing business; a fleet of similar vehicles was manufactured by Societa Italiana Ernesto Breda for the Red and Purple lines of the Los Angeles Metro Rail between 1988 and 2000.

CAF's bid was slightly higher than that of AnsaldoBreda, and thus Miami Metrorail-Dade was prepared to award the contract to the former.

Miami Metrorail-Dade issued the notice to proceed the following month, with the cars expected to be delivered over the course of several years until 2017.

Beneath the Miami Metrorail guideway from Brickell to Dadeland South, along the former Florida East Coast Railway right-of-way, there is a nearly contiguous 10.

Miami Metrorail stations are located at about a mile apart along the line, and Metromover stations are located at approximately every two blocks in the greater Downtown area.