Design your own Metrorail system

[tallrick]

The main rail lines should be built with parallel tracks that have smaller, 40 passenger electric automated cars that stop every 1/4 mile while the main stations are located every 5 miles or so. That would speed things up greatly. The FPL rights of way should be used for light rail as well. I would eliminate the police express busway and restore rail service to Key Largo and replace the pavement with a nature trail complete with native vegetation. All major canals should have the public land used for bicycle paths, including the Snapper Creek land the Turnpike took to build its toll plazas.

[hurricaneMan1992]

Commuter rail (Tri-Rail) for longer distances such as Homestead, FIU, Miami Lakes, Aventura, but it has to run a better schedule than the current Tri-Rail. Light rail or Metrorail or preferably PRT in the core areas of Miracle Mile, Little Havana, Coconut Grove, Civic Center to Liberty City, Brickell to 79th ST, and the Beach up to Surfside. We also need to have car2go, Zipcar, and bike share AT every station (not a few blocks away) since our bus system sucks and has such a bad rep that it'll take a decade of good service to convince people to actually use it for "last mile" service.

[Sugah Ray]

I think we cannot expand Metrorail until we can fix our bus system. Maybe we don't have enough demand yet but having these long North to South bus routes that sometimes don't even take people to a Metrorail station it makes little sense.

The first extension Metrorail needs is from Dadeland South to Florida City and from Culmer Station all the way to Aventura.

Then we need another line that goes north from Dadeland and 87/57avenue all the way to Miami Gardens, like parallel to the Palmetto expressway. And a third line around SW 127 ave from Goulds/Cutler Ridge all the way to Flaggler.

Our buses need better bus stations. Why not have several stops at shopping centers where people are not so exposed to the elements? A good example of this is route #211 Overtown corridor that actually goes inside a Winn Dixie parking lot to pick up passangers in front of the store. Those waiting for the bus have a roof, benches and if it rains hard, they can go back inside the store.