Miami Central Station

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Miami Central Station, due to its proximity to the Miami International Airport also known as Miami Airport station, is a railway station in early construction in Miami, Florida. After its completion at the beginning of 2014 he will be the largest and most important transfer point between road and rail in the entire U.S. state.

Prehistory

With the extension of the Florida East Coast Railway in 1896 from the north and the construction of the first railway station in downtown Miami, the railway age began in the city. Operating on the route shared the companies Seaboard Air Line Railroad and Atlantic Coast Line Railroad, which already einrichteten a direct connection to New York City. 1927 Seaboard built a second station in the north London borough of Allapattah, which was acquired in 1971 by the newly formed Amtrak. 1963, the first station was decommissioned and demolished in Downtown. For capacity reasons, however, Amtrak had to abandon the site 1977 Allapattah and shifted the passenger in place of the former trolley depot on the eastern edge of the suburb of Hialeah, where there is currently about six miles north of the new Central station of the railway station of society. Founded in 1987, Tri-Rail took the 1989 Regional traffic at the new Hialeah Market Station to West Palm Beach.

The preparatory work for the new central train station began on 18 May 2011, the official ground-breaking ceremony took place on 27th September of the year.

Function

In his capacity of station combines the currently existing in each case as the southernmost terminus stations Hialeah Market of the Tri-Rail regional transport and the railway station of the railway company Amtrak long-distance transport. While Hialeah Market is still operating after 2013 as the Tri-Rail station, the current station in the Amtrak after the completion of the new station is abandoned. The Central Station also replaced an existing at the same place since 1998, the Tri-Rail station, whose use was ended with the start of construction in September 2011.

In the same month, the MIA Mover, was opened a two kilometers long automated people mover system between the airport and the new station, which will replace the current temporary shuttle buses to the Hialeah Market Station after construction is completed. Currently, there is already the connection to existing since 2012 new Orange Line of the Miami-Dade Metrorail.

Connected to the train station is next to a large number of taxi stands also a bus station of the Metro bus network, which is operated as the Metro Rail by the Company Miami -Dade Transit in the same County. From here also the long-distance bus Greyhound Lines depart. In addition, a center exists based car rental companies.

Line overview

Rail

Metrobus

Existing Metrobus lines after completion of the railway station in 2013.