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Here's some more info from the City of Miami Beach website:
The new system provides a reliable and frequent connection between Allison Park, Publix on 69 Street, North Shore Open Space Park, Stillwater Park, North Shore Branch Library, Crespi Park, North Shore Youth Center, Normandy Isle Park and Pool, Walgreens on Biarritz Drive and other destinations.
The North Beach loop is an enhanced transit service with ample interior floor space to provide easy access, ambassador style customer service, security cameras, and wheelchair ramps and lifts that will allow easy access of wheelchairs and disabled passengers.
Some of the perks of the new trolley service include free WiFi on board the vehicles, real-time tracking and next bus information through the city’s mobile application available on Google and Apple app stores.
Thanks for sharing. Can't give you any more rep right now.
Good to know that it stops in front of a supermarket and a drug/convenience store, and has ample floor space, maybe it will be truly useful for people who really need it, in addition to making the area that much more walkable.
Also the fact that there is no out-of-pocket expense to passengers suggests, to me at least, that property taxes can indeed be progressive, without burdening citizens with needless paperwork, control freaks, stomach aches and headaches.
Just one quibble: I always thought that trolley meant light street-level rail, not a short-route shuttle bus. But apparently in South Florida the word has another meaning (e.g. West Palm Beach, Coral Gables, now North Beach).
Just one quibble: I always thought that trolley meant light street-level rail, not a short-route shuttle bus. But apparently in South Florida the word has another meaning (e.g. West Palm Beach, Coral Gables, now North Beach).
I think the both the name and look are intended to dodge the "bus" negative perception.
Just one quibble: I always thought that trolley meant light street-level rail, not a short-route shuttle bus. But apparently in South Florida the word has another meaning (e.g. West Palm Beach, Coral Gables, now North Beach).
Enjoy!
Yep...now imagine if we had actually kept and upgraded Miami's original Trolley network which ran from Miracle Mile to the Beach, even up to mid beach and Mount Sinai, serving Little Havana, and Overtown too--a more extensive system than our current Metrorail+Metromover (http://www.transitmiami.com/wp-conte...car-Lines2.jpg). I like to call refer to the new ones as "trolley busses" not Trolleys.
WOW a shuttle bus is now a trolley. The free bus service is a great idea, but as mentioned above a real trolley system would have been much better, and an actual rail connection to the mainland would just make too much sense.
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