Dadeland South station is a transfer station on the Metrorail

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system in the

Dadeland Dadeland is a commercial district and urban neighborhood similar to an edge city, amid the sprawling metropolitan Miami suburbs of Kendall, Glenvar Heights, and Pinecrest, in the U.S. state of Florida, at the end of the Metrorail line. Histor ...

district of Kendall, Florida. It is the southern terminus of the Metrorail system and the northern terminus of the South Dade TransitWay (a BRT corridor). It is the southernmost transit station in the Continental United States. This station is located near the intersection of Dadeland Boulevard and Datran Boulevard, adjacent to South Dixie Highway (

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), three blocks southwest of Kendall Drive and Dadeland Mall, and just east of the US 1– Palmetto Expressway (SR 826) junction. It opened to service May 20, 1984. The station serves

Downtown Dadeland Downtown Dadeland is an urban residential and retail development in Dadeland, Kendall, Florida, USA. Dadeland is an edge city in Kendall, which is part of unincorporated Miami-Dade County. Downtown Dadeland was completed in 2005, during a South ...

as well as local shopping centers Dadeland Mall and

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Station layout

The station has two tracks served by an

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References

External links

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MDT – Metrorail Stations

Station from Dadeland Boulevard from Google Map Street View
{{Kendall, Florida Green Line (Metrorail) Orange Line (Metrorail) Metrorail (Miami-Dade County) stations in Miami-Dade County, Florida Railway stations in the United States opened in 1984 1984 establishments in Florida Kendall, Florida