The Metromover system will be closed until 2 p.m. on Saturday, Aug. 3.

The Metromover system will be closed for much of Saturday due to construction going on in downtown Miami, Miami-Dade County confirmed Friday.

Miami-Dade County leaders are ditching a plan to run buses down the Dolphin Expressway and are instead considering two new options, including a Metromover line running above Flagler Street as part of a long-term plan to connect downtown Miami with Florida International University, according to a report in Miami Today.

A man was hospitalized Saturday morning after being hit by a Metromover in Miami, authorities said.

Broken elevators and escalators, some sitting dormant for over a year, are plaguing Miami’s Metromover system, and are causing large concerns for riders, especially those with disabilities.

As elevators and escalators in disrepair continue to be a growing problem at public transit stations in Miami-Dade County, local leaders took action Friday in order to get them fixed at a faster pace.

Miami-Dade's mayor acknowledged rider frustration with the system's myriad broken elevators and escalators, saying the county is looking at a change.

In a meeting that one Miami-Dade County commissioner said could “go down in history,” members of the county’s Transportation Planning Organization voted Thursday to commission separate studies that could eventually lead to changes in how residents, particularly those in living and working the western and southern portions of the county, get around.

After years of discussion and public clamoring, getting to Miami Beach by train may finally become a reality by the end of the decade.

A Miami-Dade County judge sentenced a man to 15 years in prison on Wednesday after a jury found him guilty of an attack on the Metromover that was recorded by a surveillance camera.

A Miami-Dade County jury found a man guilty on Wednesday of an unprovoked attack on Sept. 20, 2020, in Miami’s Metromover.

With the help of an interpreter, a 74-year-old man was forced to relive a traumatic attack in public once again.

Some of the restrictions will be eased on Miami-Dade County public transportation starting Sunday that were put into place for COVID-19.

MIAMI – A caller threatened to have placed bombs on the Metromover in downtown Miami. After a Thursday evening investigation, officers found the threat was not credible. Officers evacuated areas at the Metromover stops for Miami Dade College’s Wolfson Campus at 300 NE Second Ave., and Bayside Marketplace at 401 Biscayne Blvd. According to Officer Kiara Delva, a spokeswoman for the Miami-Dade Police Department, the officers were still investigating the source of the threats. Local 10 News Photojournalist Durrant Kellogg contributed to this report.

Fernandez and his wife, Maria Vechio, blame Allied Universal, a security contractor for Miami-Dade Transit, for not doing enough to protect him from Ribbs. Fernandez and Vechio are demanding judgment against Allied Universal for compensatory damages in excess of $30,000. Man charged in Metromover attack to undergo mental evaluationsAllied Universal was also in charge of security when Joshua King attacked three Metromover passengers on Sept. 4. Goldfarb claims this should have been enough for Allied Universal to implement effective preventive measures. According to Goldfarb, Fernandez injuries included skull fractures and brain hemorrhage.

MIAMI – Miami-Dade County and Allied Universal security failed to take action quickly enough to prevent the attack of an elderly man on a Metromover train Sunday morning, an attorney representing Eduardo Fernandez and his family says. Fernandez, 73, suffered broken bones and internal injuries in the violent beating, which came a couple weeks after three other attacks on the Metromover. Now, the family is planning to file a lawsuit against the county and Allied. “The family wants to use this lawsuit as a vehicle to promote safety,” Attorney Alan Goldfarb said Wednesday. Leaders in Miami-Dade County and the City of Miami have since pledged to increase patrols and security.

MIAMI – A man was arrested Monday, a day after he allegedly beat a 73-year-old man on the Metromover near the Adrienne Arsht Center, authorities said. Robert Lee Ribbs, 62, is accused of beating a man on the Metromover in Miami. Arrest made in connection with brutal attack on Miami MetromoverAccording to the arrest report, Ribbs confessed to beating Fernandez, and when approached by officers said, “Hey, man, I know what this is about. MDPD arrested the suspect (pictured) who is accused of being involved in a case of aggravated battery on the Metromover. In that case, Joshua King, 25, was arrested and accused of attacking three people on the Metromover on the same day.

A 73-year-old man was on his way to work as a parking valet Sunday morning when he was beaten. Eduardo Fernandez was viciously attacked after he boarded the Metromover at Government Center on the short trip to the Omni terminal. His son, Christian, said Eduardo managed to get off the train and walk two blocks before he collapsed. Police showed Christian a still image from surveillance video of the man who beat his father — he doesn’t believe it is King. It’s doesn’t look like the same person,” Christian said.

MIAMI – Surveillance video shows Joshua James King recently beating up Andrea Puerta while she was alone inside Miami’s Metromover, police said. King, 25, punched Puerta, 29, more than 20 times during the Sept. 4 attack. A man attacked a woman who was alone in the Metromover in Miami. Puerta said she doesn’t know King, but she was horrified when she learned he has a daughter. More on Miami-Dade public transportation: