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Vizcaya Station
Vizcaya station is a station on the Metrorail rapid transit service station in The Roads neighborhood of Miami, Florida. The station is located near the intersection of Southwest First Avenue and 32nd Road, at the southern terminus of I-95 at South Dixie Highway (US 1) two blocks southeast of Coral Way. The Vizcaya station opened May 20, 1984 and features a pedestrian bridge over the US 1/I-95 junction for access to the Vizcaya Museum and Gardens and residences east of the highway. Station layout The station has two tracks served by an island platform An island platform (also center platform, centre platform) is a station layout arrangement where a single platform is positioned between two tracks within a railway station, tram stop or transitway interchange. Island platforms are popular on ... with a parking lot immediately north of the station platform. References External links MDT – Metrorail StationsStation from Google Maps Street View {{South Florida rail metro ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Metrorail (Miami-Dade County)
Metrorail is the heavy rail rapid transit system of Miami and Miami-Dade County in the U.S. state of Florida. Metrorail is operated by Miami-Dade Transit (MDT), a departmental agency of Miami-Dade County. Opened in 1984, it is Florida's only rapid transit metro system, and is currently composed of two lines of 23 stations on of standard gauge track. Metrorail serves the urban core of Miami, connecting Miami International Airport, the Health District, Downtown Miami, and Brickell with the northern developed neighborhoods of Hialeah and Medley to the northwest, and to suburban The Roads, Coconut Grove, Coral Gables, and South Miami, ending at urban Dadeland in Kendall. Metrorail connects to the Metromover in Downtown, which provides metro service to the entirety of Downtown and Brickell. Additionally, it connects to South Florida's commuter rail system at Tri-Rail station, as well as Metrobus routes at all stations. In , the system had rides, and about per day in . In 20 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Roads
The Roads is a neighborhood of Miami in Miami-Dade County, Florida. It is a triangular area located south of SW 11th Street, between SW 12th Avenue and SW 15th Road, just west of Brickell. The Roads is known for its old homes, historic private schools, and its tree-covered streets. The Roads is very close to Downtown and Brickell, but is a historically residential neighborhood. It is also off the normal Miami street grid, and thus all the streets in The Roads are named roads, instead of streets and avenues, as is the case in the rest of Miami. Since 1986, the Miami Roads Neighborhood Civic Association has worked on a variety of projects to support the neighborhood. The Roads neighborhood is served by the Miami Metrorail at the Vizcaya station to the south and by the Brickell station to the north. History The Roads, originally called "Brickell Hammock" was designed, platted and developed by Mary Brickell in January 1922 days before her death. Mary Brickell had designed the Ro ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Metrorail (Miami-Dade County) Stations In Miami
Metrorail or metro rail may refer to: * Rapid transit, a frequent electric rail system commonly called a metro * Metrorail (South Africa), a commuter rail system operator in South Africa ** Metrorail Eastern Cape, commuter rail lines serving Port Elizabeth and East London ** Metrorail Gauteng, the commuter rail system in Gauteng province (including Johannesburg and Pretoria) ** Metrorail KwaZulu-Natal, the commuter rail system in Durban ** Metrorail Western Cape, the commuter rail system in Cape Town * Los Angeles Metro Rail, the rapid transit and light rail system in Los Angeles, California, USA * Washington Metro, the rapid transit system in Washington, D.C., USA * Metrorail (Miami-Dade County), the rapid transit system in Miami-Dade County, primarily, Miami, Florida, USA * METRORail, the light rail system in Houston, Texas, USA * Valley Metro Rail, the light rail system in the Phoenix metropolitan area in Arizona, USA * Buffalo Metro Rail, the rapid transit system in Buffalo, Ne ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Orange Line (Metrorail)
Orange Line may refer to: Public transit in Asia *Orange Line or Delhi Airport Metro Express in Delhi, India *Orange Line (Jaipur Metro) in Jaipur, India *Orange Line (Kanpur Metro), in Kanpur, India *Orange Line (Nagpur Metro), in Nagpur, India *Orange Line (Namma Metro) a planned line in Bengaluru, India *Orange Line (Lahore Metro) in Lahore, Pakistan *Orange Line, KMRT, Kaohsiung, Taiwan *Orange Line (Bangkok), a planned line in Bangkok, Thailand *Seoul Subway Line 3, Seoul, South Korea *Tung Chung line, Hong Kong, China * Zhonghe-Xinlu Line of Taipei Metro, Taipei, Taiwan *PNR Metro South Commuter Line, Manila, Philippines *Ampang Line, Kuala Lumpur *Circle MRT line, Singapore Public transit in Europe * Kaluzhsko-Rizhskaya line, Moscow, Russia *London Overground, London, UK *Paris Métro Line 5, Paris, France *Brussels Metro line 2, Brussels, Belgium *Line 7 (Madrid Metro), Madrid, Spain * Barcelona Metro line 9, Barcelona, Spain *U9 (Berlin U-Bahn), Berlin, Germany Public tr ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Green Line (Metrorail)
Green Line may refer to: Places Military and political * Green Line (France), the German occupation line in France during World War II * Green Line (Israel), the 1949 armistice line established between Israel and its neighbours ** City Line (Jerusalem), part of the Green Line between Israel and Jordan which divided Jerusalem from 1948 and 1967 * Green Line (Lebanon), demarcation line between Christian and Muslim militias in Beirut during the Lebanese Civil War * Green Line, that part of the United Nations Buffer Zone in Cyprus that runs through Nicosia and a colloquial name for the buffer zone as a whole * Green Line, part of the GHQ Line defence works built in the United Kingdom during World War II * Gothic Line, a German defensive line in Italy built during World War II, renamed the "Green Line" in June 1944 Other * Green Line (Atlanta development corridor), a development corridor in Downtown Atlanta * The cities of Virginia Beach, Virginia, and Chico, California each hav ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Vizcaya Museum And Gardens
The Vizcaya Museum and Gardens, previously known as Villa Vizcaya, is the former villa and Estate (land), estate of businessperson, businessman James Deering, of the Deering McCormick-International Harvester fortune, on Biscayne Bay in the present-day Coconut Grove, Miami, Coconut Grove neighborhood of Miami, Miami, Florida. The early 20th-century Vizcaya estate also includes extensive Renaissance architecture, Italian Renaissance gardens, native woodland landscape, and a historic village outbuildings compound. The landscape and architecture were influenced by Veneto and Tuscany, Tuscan Renaissance architecture, Italian Renaissance models and designed in the Mediterranean Revival architecture style, with Baroque elements. F. Burrall Hoffman was the architect, Paul Chalfin was the design director, and Diego Suarez (garden designer), Diego Suarez was the landscape architect. Miami-Dade County, Florida, Miami-Dade County now owns the Vizcaya property, as the Vizcaya Museum and Garde ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Coral Way (street)
Coral Way, co-signed State Road 972 (SR 972) between Douglas Road and US 1 in Miami, is a primary east-west street that extends from Southwest 157th Avenue in western Miami-Dade County to Brickell Avenue (US 1) in the Brickell neighborhood of Downtown Miami, Florida. Route description Coral Way begins as SW 26th Street at Southwest 157th Avenue in unincorporated Miami-Dade County as a mix of a residential street and commercial street. Just west of the Homestead Extension of Florida's Turnpike, Coral Way curves slightly to the north, becoming SW 24th Street as it passes over the Turnpike without an interchange. It continues through unincorporated Miami-Dade County, intersecting with Galloway Road, interchanging with the Palmetto Expressway, and Ludlam Road, becoming mostly residential east of Ludlam Road. At Red Road (Southwest 57th Avenue), Coral Way enters Coral Gables, becomes a two lane street, and begins a residential stretch of road in which Coral Way is covered under ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
South Dixie Highway
Dixie Highway was a United States auto trail first planned in 1914 to connect the Midwest with the South. It was part of a system and was expanded from an earlier Miami to Montreal highway. The final system is better understood as a network of connected paved roads, rather than one single highway. It was constructed and expanded from 1915 to 1929. The Dixie Highway was inspired by the example of the slightly earlier Lincoln Highway, the first road across the United States. The prime booster of both projects was promoter and businessman Carl G. Fisher. It was overseen by the Dixie Highway Association and funded by a group of individuals, businesses, local governments, and states. In the early years, the U.S. federal government played little role, but from the early 1920s on it provided increasing funding until 1927. That year the Dixie Highway Association was disbanded and the highway was taken over by the federal government as part of the U.S. Route system, with some portions ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Interstate 95 In Florida
Interstate 95 (I-95) is the main Interstate Highway of Florida's Atlantic Coast. It begins at a partial interchange with U.S. Highway 1 (US 1) just south of downtown Miami, and heads north past Daytona Beach, through Jacksonville, and to the Georgia state line at the St. Marys River near Becker. The route also passes through the cities of Fort Lauderdale, West Palm Beach, and Titusville. Interstate 95 runs for , making Florida's portion the longest of any state the interstate passes through. The southernmost , from Exit 1 to Exit 87B, is known as the Miami Memorial Metropolitan (MMM) Expressway. The other of which are unsigned as State Road 9A, and the remainder being the unsigned portion of State Road 9. Route description I-95 begins its northward journey at U.S. Route 1 near 32nd Road and the Vizcaya Metrorail Station in southern Miami. It quickly interchanges with the Rickenbacker Causeway via the short unsigned SR 913, and then heads north into downtown. The ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Rapid Transit
Rapid transit or mass rapid transit (MRT), also known as heavy rail or metro, is a type of high-capacity public transport generally found in urban areas. A rapid transit system that primarily or traditionally runs below the surface may be called a subway, tube, or underground. Unlike buses or trams, rapid transit systems are railways (usually electric railway, electric) that operate on an exclusive right-of-way (transportation), right-of-way, which cannot be accessed by pedestrians or other vehicles, and which is often grade-separated in tunnels or on elevated railways. Modern services on rapid transit systems are provided on designated lines between rapid transit station, stations typically using electric multiple units on rail tracks, although some systems use guided rubber tires, magnetic levitation (''maglev''), or monorail. The stations typically have high platforms, without steps inside the trains, requiring custom-made trains in order to minimize gaps between train a ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Metro Station
A metro station or subway station is a station for a rapid transit system, which as a whole is usually called a "metro" or "subway". A station provides a means for passengers to purchase Train ticket, tickets, board trains, and Emergency evacuation, evacuate the system in the case of an emergency. In the United Kingdom, they are known as underground stations, most commonly used in reference to the London Underground. Location The location of a metro station is carefully planned to provide easy access to important urban facilities such as roads, commercial centres, major buildings and other Transport hub, transport nodes. Most stations are located underground, with entrances/exits leading up to ground or street level. The bulk of the station is typically positioned under land reserved for public thoroughfares or Urban park, parks. Placing the station underground reduces the outside area occupied by the station, allowing vehicles and pedestrians to continue using the ground-le ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Miami-Dade County, Florida
Miami-Dade County is a County (United States), county located in the southeastern part of the U.S. state of Florida. The county had a population of 2,701,767 as of the 2020 United States census, 2020 census, making it the most populous county in Florida and the List of the most populous counties in the United States, seventh-most populous county in the United States. It is also Florida's third largest county in terms of land area, with . The county seat is Miami, the core of the metropolitan statistical area, nation's ninth largest and List of largest cities, world's 34th largest metropolitan area with a 2020 population of 6.138 million people. Miami-Dade County is heavily Hispanic and Latino (ethnic categories), Hispanic, and was the most populous List of majority-Hispanic or Latino counties in the United States, majority-Hispanic county in the nation as of 2020. It is home to 34 city (Florida), incorporated cities and many unincorporated areas. The northern, central and eastern ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
