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Summer of '84: Tracking Metrorail's First Day
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- čas přidán 19. 05. 2014
- 1984: A Zoom With a View
May 21, 1984 was the first "revenue day" for Metrorail -- the day Dade County's gleaming, modernistic elevated train welcomed paying passengers. The single Metrorail line extended only as far north as the Overtown station -- further north the line was still under construction. But from Kendall commuters there was nothing but smiles.
"It beats the New York subway by a mile," banker Robert Thomas told the Miami News. "It's nice to have a view in the morning, rather than looking at tunnels."
Sunday, May 20 was Metrorail's inauguration day. Rides were free and ridership topped 150,000. On Monday morning, paying customers numbered one thousand or so. But everybody loved the view.
WTVJ sent a three-man news team into the field to cover Metrorail's first day: Nick Bogert at the Government Center station, David Goldstein on US 1 -- a traffic nightmare backers hoped Metrorail would banish -- and Al Sunshine riding the rails.
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I take the metro rail everyday for work it's amazing seeing the first day of operation
1984 when people were actually nice in Miami,not now completely different
Cubans
@@higheveryday138
@@juanrpollo Cubans really ruined Miami, they even stopped calling it Miami, especially the corrupted police mainly made up of Cubans, they started calling Miami Cuba!
Yeah it's ruined now.
@@higheveryday138 Haitians too
People were so much thinner
And nicer.
Stop making fun of that guy's head, shame on you
i was 18 back then i rode it when they opened,nice video
Happy Birthday, Metrorail!
i rode it in summer of 1984 high school days. The real shocker in this video is I only heard english.
To this day I still wonder why it doesn't go to the Beach...
Heard only English! Hah! Now if you return to that same location all you hear is Spanish and some other jibberish language.
The terrain couldn’t handle that. Miami Beach will someday be under water as it is.
The trains look the same inside and outside from 30+ years ago.
Bungholio They let everything here go to waste.
Those same trains aren't much reliable anymore. Most of those trains are now sitting in the yard not available anymore. The new trains are starting to replace them slowly
40 years old today! I do have to question why in the world this Metro didn't go to the Miami Airport from the very beginning in 1984. If it was properties in the way then why didn't that extension get built after Andrew hit in 1992? It took Miami 28 years to finally wise up.
Only 1-2 Budd sets run on weekends, all other runs are the new Hitachi cars. There's only 14 operable Budds left and now 120 Hitachi cars with more to come. Get those Budd rides soon!
Happy brithy metrorail
I was just on the metro rail
Miami Dade County is tearing up perfect tile floors at the Miami metrorail stations and replacing them with grey floors.God knows, how much it's going to cost Miami Dade County tax payers.
They were suppose to be replaced then but the first new cars didn't get into service till late November last year and so far there's maybe 20 or so new cars as of now so majority of the old cars are still there
The Bahamian/American Transit Fan 2000 Productions yup about 2/3s of the trains from 1984 are just sitting in the yard not available anymore
The Bahamian/American Transit Fan 2000 Productions I stay I Miami and those same very cars are still running just not all of them
The Bahamian/American Transit Fan 2000 Productions those were retired years ago back in 2004 and 2005
The last flxibles to run we're the 9400 series 9401-9425 we're Detroit diesel series 50 powered and 9426-9430 had Cummins m11
The Bahamian/American Transit Fan 2000 Productions and the cng and methanol flxibles had all kinds of problems with them there were parked for a few years then where changed to diesel
Everytime I get in the Metrorail it's like back to the future. Same Train ,same handrails ,same drivers ,same everything .ITS SO OUTDATED ..MIAMI NEEDS TO STEP IT UP.
They have the new Hitachi cars now.
Stations and Tracks is Getting Renovated Soon
Is this back when people were more courteous in Miami?
More people would take the train if it actually went somewhere. Like the Beach, Art District, or Stadium to watch a game. They just now added the Airport Station after all these years. Who designed this thing anyways? WTF?
The original plan for Metro Rail was to get people in and out of Downtown from the south suburbs. It still serves it's purpose of exactly that. It moves masses of people in and out of Downtown/Brickell. Keep in mind, back in the 1980s places like Wynwood and Miami Beach were not desirable locations at all. They were run down and dangerous in 1984. The Arts District did not even exist back then. It was a run down seedy neighborhood rife with crime, drugs and gang activity. You need to think back to 80s Miami to fully understand. The stadium was built in 1987 and is all the way to the far north end of the county. I agree Metro Rail should have been built along 27th Ave to stadium with stops along the way. That was part of the half penny tax expansion plan of 2002 until the county mismanaged that money.
classic
Summer of 87
All those people retired a decade ago.
This is still a waste of money!
@prdawg215 ok boomer
Explain?
How, Every City Deserves more Transit
Car dependent infrastructure is a waste of money