friedman@uiucdcs.UUCP (08/14/84)
#N:uiucdcs:20600020:000:846 uiucdcs!friedman Aug 14 15:56:00 1984 > Miami, Florida: Metro Transit Agency. This newest of heavy rail systems > opened May 21, 1984. It serves a metropolitan area of 1.4 million. It is > included in this list, although I don't think it has any underground portion. > The 14.8 southern route is the one now in service; a 19.8 mile northern > route is to open in late 1984 or early 1985. Budd built the 136 cars. > Projected ridership is 200,000 daily; actual ridership of the southern route > was 38,473 in the first full week of service. An update to the above entry in my list of subway systems: The Miami rail system does not, in fact, have any underground portion, so it is definitely not a subway by any (usual) definition. It is mostly on elevated track. It is, of course, a heavy rail system, sharing most of the attributes of a subway system except the obvious one.