MIAMI – The Biden administration announced Monday that it is recommending roughly $263.7 million in its budget toward a new commuter rail service serving northeastern Miami-Dade County.
The Northeast Corridor Rapid Transit Project would connect already-existing train stations in downtown Miami and Aventura with five new stations in between, using Florida East Coast Railway tracks already used by Brightline.
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Those would be located at Northeast 27th Street in Wynwood, Northeast 39th Street in the Miami Design District, Northeast 61st Street in Little Haiti, Northeast 123rd Street in North Miami and Northeast 151st Street near the Florida International University Biscayne Bay Campus in North Miami.
“The service is planned to operate seven days a week for about 19 hours per day with service every 30 minutes during weekday peak periods and every 60 minutes during off-peak periods and on weekends,” a project report states.
Riders would be able to connect to the Metrorail and Metromover systems at MiamiCentral station.
The $263.7 million in federal funding would cover just under half of the $538 million project.
If opened today, ridership would be estimated at an average of 9,400 passengers per day, with estimates rising to 17,100 passengers per day by 2045.
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