Miami To Aventura Train Service Pushed To 2032

Completion of Northeast Corridor train service has been pushed back until 8 years from now.

That is 5 years later than initially planned, even though Miami-Dade initially had an aggressive schedule.

The reason for the delay: the Federal Transit Administration told Miami-Dade to “slow down,” according to Miami Today.

It is currently taking six years for trainsets to be manufactured and delivered. The FTA also wants the county to better plan and integrate the system with Broward County, which itself is planning a segment.

The FTA did pre-approve $389m in funding towards the Miami-Dade segment.

Train cars will also be provided by Broward when the service runs between counties.

Construction on the Miami-Dade segment is now planned to begin in mid-2027, with train service planned to be operating in mid-2032, according to a new Miami-Dade fact sheet on the project.

 

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Build Miami
7 days ago

Okay so if this is basically not happening for a decade, the county needs to prioritize and expedite the Metromover expansion to the Design District. This should now be priority number one. It’s not about a “free ride” it’s about getting some sort of public transit in the highly congested midtown area ASAP.

Kurt
7 days ago

Exactly where are they on that?

Anon
7 days ago

not just keyboard raging but real talk: It’s not on the County’s radar.

SW30
7 days ago

It is on their radar, the Metromover extension to DD has been included in the Beach Corridor of the SMART plan. However, the current expansion plan won’t loop through Edgewater so it’s a half-ass effort in my opinion

Anon
6 days ago

^^no, it’s not. That’s nothing more than a pie in the sky wish list plan. Zero funding has been allocated.

Anonymous
7 days ago

Then their radar sucks. They suck.

This is Miami
7 days ago

That, like this project, is never happening

Anonymous
7 days ago

Ahh yes, the obligatory expand Metromoober comment to beyond its service area that it was designed for.

Anonymous
7 days ago

Ahh yes, the obligatory schizophrenic subhuman that hates the “Metromoober”

You are utterly pathetic and a cancer to this website, to this city, and to everyone unfortunate to have ever interacted with you. Cosplay a brightline speedbump.

Anon
7 days ago

Wow that’s a whole lot of anger over a comment about Metromover expansion. You should see somebody.

Anonymous
7 days ago

I think more developers will start focusing on building and enhancing areas around the Metromover. From this post, it seems we have at least another 10 years for development north of downtown to connect.

PBJ
7 days ago

This one hurts

Anon
7 days ago

Miami is not a serious city

Fullyfundreserves
7 days ago

I-95 will be double decked before we can get even regular train service along existing rail lines.

Sad.

Anonymous
7 days ago

At this point I’m 100% behind double decking 95

Urbanist
7 days ago

All of our leaders are failing us if they can’t even buy trains.

Anonymous
7 days ago

It’s the FTA’s fault, and they’ll all be gone by January. Integrate with Broward County? It’s not Dade County’s fault that Broward can’t walk and chew gum at the same time…

Anonymous
6 days ago

If it’s a federal government issue maybe the new administration can help speed things up?

Anonymous
5 days ago

Do you expect administration founding the Department of Gov Efficiency with a leader who has a tunnel & car-special interest will allow any funding for commuter trains?

anonymous
3 days ago

good point

Conrad
7 days ago

Wrong.

anonymous
7 days ago

Traffic in Miami is already bad , the density that is coming to Miami is insane , more than 50 skyscrapers are planned or under construction and lots of building that are over 100 feet and that is just in wynwood ,Brickell ,downtown and edgewater , there are thousands of apartments planned in other areas of Miami dade county. these politicians are out of touch with reality.

Anonymous
11 hours ago

You don’t expect people to actually live in those towers, do you?

rainey411
7 days ago

Not surprised; South Florida will have basic rail connectivity by the time it is obsolete at this rate..

anon
7 days ago

i’m calling it by 2030 a hurricane would have done its damage and south florida will be in heavy decline as the tech bros flee to puerto rico and medellin

Anon
7 days ago

😂🤡👌

Anonymous
7 days ago

whether it happens or not, you’ll still have a micro D.

Anon
7 days ago

tech bros going to 3rd world PR and Medellin….to deal with rolling blackouts and armed kidnappings, all because Miami didn’t get a transit train.

anon
7 days ago

you’d be surprised. also felt a lot safer in medellin than i ever did in new york

Anon
6 days ago

not surprised, but calling BS

Anon
6 days ago

butthurt beaners giving the truth downvotes

BDub
7 days ago

Eight years, plus inevitable delays, to get service running on Existing Tracks.
Can’t get more South Florida than that.

Fullyfundreserves
7 days ago

Pathetic

Poniatowski
7 days ago

8 years for 20km is so embarrassing. You’d think they have more urgency in such for infrastructure projects like these that relate in reducing the impeding nature of traffic, and reduce it all together, but instead a insufficient rail system is more than suffice.

Anonymous
7 days ago

The tracks are already built so they just need to build a few stations and that’s going to take 8 years ?

Anon
7 days ago

It’s simply not going to happen. Look at this counties track record with these type of projects. It’s never going to go anywhere.

transplant
7 days ago

Seriously. The Empire State Building was built in 1 year smh

This is Miami
7 days ago

That’s New York where shit actually gets done

Anonymous
7 days ago

NYC gets “shit” done. Miami gets “important stuff” done.

Jesus
7 days ago

I’m so shocked 🤣

This is ridiculous have the private sector get the money and do it

Adrien
7 days ago

Bullshit City. Making promises to voters. This is supposed to be the “easier” one. They totally messed up with the South Dade.

Anon
7 days ago

It’s actually embarrassing. I’ve been here 5 years now and I’ve never seen a city continuously pull bait and switch on their own voters like this – it’s shocking…

Anonymous
7 days ago

TBH, South Dade is the last place we need rail expansion. Priority should always be east-west MetroRAIL expansion and fast-tracking the FEC and Kendall CSX spur commuter services.

Anon
7 days ago

It doesn’t really matter where you are looking to expand….if it’s in Miami-Dade County it is NOT HAPPENING. NOT NOW, NOT IN 8 YEARS, NOT EVER!

When will you guys learn? This is all delay tactics they have been doing it for 50 years.

Anonymous
6 days ago

So you’re advocating for capitulation/giving up. Essentially giving them a pass for their incompetence rather than holding them accountable. Utterly pathetic.

Clearly you feel passionately about this, since you’ve posted the same comment multiple times in all caps, oblivious to the fact that we do not care about your justifications and “reality checks”. We are demanding it at this point. You, Joe Carollo, and the rest of the wannabe Epstein island crowd can all rot.

Anon
6 days ago

^^how did you weave in “Epstein island crowd” with Metrorail expansion plans?

Common sense
7 days ago

Unacceptable ! Vote them out ! All of them !

Anonymous
7 days ago

We did, last week… It’s not the state or local level in this case.

Anon
7 days ago

Okay for the sake of being practical (not an endorsement or criticism of him/his policies), if the POTUS Elect wants to cut federal government spending, do you think he is going to allocate more resources to this?

Anon
6 days ago

I hope not. Spending needs to be cut.

One more Floridian
7 days ago

Funny, we just voted them out. But for an even more anti-transit congress lol

Anonymous
6 days ago

If the federal government is the problem maybe there is a private solution?

CuentoChino
7 days ago

Why not just Tri-rail run it ?

Anon
7 days ago

I’m out of this pretend city – this is such a joke.

Anon
7 days ago

Your desire to live in a location is purely guided by access to a government funded train? Wow.

Anon
7 days ago

No it’s guided by a local government that continually lies to its constituents

Anon
7 days ago

^^go move to where politicians don’t lie 👌😂

Mmmm
7 days ago

Thank the FTA

anon
7 days ago

that moment when third world countries in south america are getting trains built at a record pace meanwhile it takes an extra 3 years just to even start 🤡

Fern
7 days ago

Absolutely unacceptable. This is a shameful delay of desperately needed transit

SW30
7 days ago

It takes 2-3 years to build a whole cruise ship, so why tf does it take 6 years for a damn trainset!!? The incompetence of all parties involved is wild

By the way what ever happened to the North corridor that was supposed to be finished by the World Cup (2026)? Has that made any progress yet?

One more Floridian
7 days ago

How can the U.S compete in the global economy if one of the most vibrant and booming areas in the country cant build a SINGLE rail line. Miami dade’s east of i-95 area is most likely the most densely populated area not connected by rail in the whole developed world. Miami dade’s urban core is the second most dense im the U.S, with only NYC being more dense.

Anon
7 days ago

so far, pretty damn well

No road, No rail, No future
6 days ago

Obviously you haven’ been around. Miami can’t light a candle in competitiveness surveys done by serious publications, both liberal and free-market conservative.

Anon
6 days ago

Obviously you don’t live here. Look at all the capital Miami has attracted. “serious publications”…lol seriously?

Check your facts
6 days ago

New Jersey is more dense than urban core Miami, stop it.

Anon
7 days ago

Not enough DEI hires to Pete Buttplug’s liking.

Angry
7 days ago

Ridiculous as always!

Anon
7 days ago

This is never happening and this city is a joke.

One more Floridian
7 days ago

This timeline is extremely inconsistent with the current and projected density of this area. Extremely disappointed of the FTA, but not surprised.

79th St Citizens for a transit station.'
7 days ago

Since this isn’t happening for 10 years , can we add a 79th St station to the project. Can’t use the excuse of “time constraints” anymore. Just saying

Anonymous
7 days ago

If politicians didn’t care before, now they’ll care even less since we’re effectively a single party state.

Yan Jammer
7 days ago

Since 2010 when Charlie Crist narrowly lost to voldermort rick scott.

Anonymous
7 days ago

Um, no that was Alex Sink, a.k.a. Elizabeth Warren Lite. Christ tried for the Senate.

Anonymous
7 days ago

If you actually read the article, it’s the outgoing Feds who are holding it up.

Antennae
7 days ago

Miami is too busy building parking lots to be concerned with mass transit.
These 2 repel each other.

Conrad
7 days ago

Everyone should just take a moment of self-reflection.
The comments here are overwhelming critical of how terrible the Miami-Dade County government is at planning, building, and operating trains.

THEN,
everyone demands that the government do MORE of what they are terrible at doing.

“For the last 35 years, my barber takes 1.5 hours to cut my hair, the experience during the process sucks, it is always over budget, when he finally finishes it, everyone looks at me funny because the barber did such a terrible job.”

I KNOW! I’ll just keep wishing and hoping that it will change.

Taxed Out
7 days ago

I cannot wait until the DOGE takes down this FTA moron who is stalling this project.

Anonymous
5 days ago

The Telsa/ Boring company CEO with particular interest in South Florida is going to fix funding for construction of a commuter train?

Anonymous
7 days ago

Phaaac the Pothole Pete. What did he do for for 4 years apart from br east feeding his baby? The most piti ful transport minister that the world has ever seen.

Anon
7 days ago

As long as the state remains republican, it will never prioritize funding or expedited timelines for these types of projects.

Anon
6 days ago

good. tax and spends sucks.