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Posted by Orange Blossom Special on Thu Dec 29 17:22:20 2005, in response to [Poll] Who will be the first in the nation to expand their Heavy Rail system?, posted by WillD on Wed Dec 28 17:41:04 2005. I'm not sure which is more lacking, the people who responded to the poll or the poll itself.Poll: Which system is already sitting on federal and local funds, with a special sales tax to expand it's system? It would be Miami. If you want to go backwards, their last extension opened in 2003. Palmetto Station. Or if you want to go to the future a 2.2mile extension will be completed in 2009. I don't know exactly what the status is on the system, or why there's limited updates. But you can also talk about Tri-Rails double-track, that's a major "expansion" in it's usability. "Early critics ridiculed Metrorail as "the railroad that doesn't go anywhere." Actually, it goes where close to 50,000 daily riders want to go, and the number is climbing, in last year's third quarter, the latest period for which the American Public Transportation Association has comparable statistics, Miami-Dade posted the highest ridership increase--3.5%--among the nation's 14 heavy rail transit systems. Only two others eked out an increase at all--Philadelphia's SEPTA, with 1.03%, and the Washington Metro, 0.42%. Metrorail Marketing Director Michael de Cossio points out that critics should bear in mind that rapid transit in Miami is not really a "system"--it's a line and probably the busiest single line heavy rail transit carrier in the country." That means compared to other systems that only have one line though as a whole system. Not the busiest rail line versus any other one. |
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