 Miami Central Station Rail Platforms Exterior Courtesy of the Florida Department of Transportation, MIC Program |
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The Miami Rental Car Center and the MIA Mover, completed in 2010 and 2011, respectively, are the first two components of the Florida Department of Transportation’s Miami Intermodal Center (MIC) project, slated for total completion in 2013.
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AirportLink, a 2.4-mile extension from the MIC to Miami-Dade Transit’s Metrorail system, is scheduled for completion in 2012.
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In 2013, the MIC’s16.5-acre Miami Central Station is scheduled to open as Miami-Dade County's first ground transportation hub, providing passengers connections to services such as: Miami-Dade Transit’s Metrobus; Tri-Rail, a heavy-rail system that serves Miami-Dade, Broward and Palm Beach counties; Amtrak; Greyhound; taxi and other forms of private transportation.
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May 1, 2012 |
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If you're anything like Avi Tryson, you don't like what it costs to leave your car parked at the airport. "It'll be an extra 75 to 100 bucks for me to travel," Tryson said. By the end of the summer, however, everything is scheduled to change. "This is going to give people choices," said Albert Hernandez with Miami Dade Transit. Once construction is completed this summer, you will be able to take the existing Metrorail from Dadeland, through downtown, and all the way to the Miami International airport. "We'll have two lines now," Hernandez said. "The green line which provides service to the Palmetto, and the orange line which will provide service to the airport." Frequent flyer Joe Cuzan doesn't usually take mass transit, but he's sold on spending a couple of dollars to get to MIA and a couple of dollars to leave. "If it's practical and it works, I'll use it," he said. In fact, county officials believe the link to the airport will jumpstart ridership by about 7,000 or 8,000 people per day. They say the new stretch of rail launches our 30-year-old system into the future.
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April 5, 2012 |
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AirportLink to be tested this spring, open for the public in the summer Miami’s first mass-transit rail directly linking Miami International Airport to downtown and the county’s outlying suburbs is about to start operating. With construction almost complete, the “AirportLink” Metrorail extension is scheduled for testing this spring and to start serving the public sometime this summer, said Miami- Dade Transit spokeswoman Karla Damian. The 2.4-mile elevated heavy rail extension will run from the new Miami Intermodal Center next to the airport to Metrorail’s Earlington Heights station. The new link means passengers will be able to travel to and from the airport and Metrorail’s 22 other stations that link Miami’s urban core and central business districts to surrounding communities such as Hialeah and Medley to the northwest and Coconut Grove, Coral Gables, South Miami and Kendall to the southwest. At the Intermodal Center, AirportLink will enable riders to connect to other train systems such as Amtrak intercity service, the South Florida commuter Tri-Rail and an “Automated People Mover” light rail to the airport’s terminals. AirportLink riders also will have access there to Greyhound and county buses, taxis and rental cars. A specific start date for the AirportLink line still needs to be set, Ms. Damian said. “We’re looking at how the testing goes, and we’re integrating new equipment to our existing equipment, so we need to be testing that, too,” she said.
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March 29, 2012 |
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Miami Today -- As Colin Johnson and Oscar Romero stroll the construction site of Miami Central Station, which they say will be unlike anything in Florida mass transit, they point out all the modes of transportation that someday will come together there. They describe it as a modern Miami version of New York’s Grand Central Station. Where groundwater is now being pumped out into temporary pools will rise the central concourse that travelers will pass through as they head to and from nearby Miami International Airport and other destinations.
A cement foundation and cinderblock walls near the middle of the 27-acre site are the beginnings of what someday will be a Greyhound Bus terminal. The beginnings of another building stand nearby. “That will be the police station and control center,” complete with bicycle storage and showers, said Mr. Johnson, the Florida Department of Transportation’s project manager. A future Amtrak station is sprouting up on the south end of the site. “We’re going to have all the tracks here,” Mr. Romero, a department consultant who is the senior project engineer, said about what currently is a dusty strip along the west side of the site where train tracks someday will stretch. When Miami Central Station opens, it will be a main transfer point for commuters and visitors with rail and bus services linking the airport to locations around Miami-Dade, South Florida and beyond. The complex will include a landscaped esplanade and public parking. Since site work began last summer, the $88 million state Department of Transportation project is about a third of the way through. The station is expected to open by November 2013.
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January 31, 2012 |
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Translated from Spanish. John Mica, chairman of the powerful Transportation and Infrastructure Committee of the U.S. House of Representatives, toured the huge public transit center being built alongside Miami International Airport (MIA) on Monday, citing it as an example for other big cities that want to connect airlines, buses and trains, as well as other services. Among Mica’s guests for the tour of Miami Intermodal Center (MIC), an installation that is being built at a cost of $1.7 billion, were mayors and representatives from other states and cities interested in building similar transit centers.
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January 2, 2012 |
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One of the most expensive and complex transportation projects currently under construction in South Florida will be finished this year: the Metrorail extension to Miami International Airport. The new line of the elevated train, from Earlington Heights Station to a new public transportation center under construction just east of the airport, will be in operation in the spring. It will be formally called AirportLink and is the first significant Metrorail extension since the system was inaugurated in 1984. “AirportLink will provide a fast, reliable Metrorail link to MIA for millions of residents, visitors and employees who travel to and from MIA every year,” a Miami-Dade Transit press release said. “With this project, Miami-Dade joins the ranks of the great urban zones in the world with fast public transportation systems connecting to their airports.”
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Scheduled to open in 2012, the 2.4 mile elevated Metrorail extension will provide a fast, reliable Metrorail connection to Miami International Airport for the millions of residents and visitors who travel to and from MIA every year. With this project, Miami-Dade County joins the ranks of other major cities with rapid transit connections to their airports.
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September 27, 2011 |
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Station Expected To Be Finished In Fall 2013 A major puzzle piece in the Miami Intermodal Center transportation hub broke ground Tuesday. With its scheduled opening in Fall 2013, the Miami Central Station is planned to be the central transfer point for travelers using Miami International Airport, rail and bus services, TriRail and MetroMover, with connections to taxi and shuttle services. The hub is the final component of the $2 billion Miami Intermodal Center, which included highway transportation improvements, the Rental Car Center and elevated rail link there from Miami International Airport.
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September 27, 2011 |
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Construction begins Tuesday on the Miami Central Station, a major component of the Miami Intermodal Center, South Florida’s first ground transportation hub. Covering 16.5 acres, the $147 million Miami Central Station is a terminal scheduled to open in 2013 with access to various transportation services, including Amtrak and Tri-Rail, according to the project website. Metrorail will also connect to the station via the 2.4-mile AirportLink extension that is to be complete in April 2012. “The Miami Central Station is the crown jewel of the MIC Program,” Florida Department of Transportation Secretary Ananth Prasad said in a news release. “It will make a significant difference for residents and visitors by giving them transportation choices within this one location.”
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