Joe Finley Same train builder that created the R32 and R38 for the NYC subway. Only these are made in the 80s while those NYC subway cars were built in the 60s.
Gotta stop ya there, buddy. Budd was only responsible for the R32s. The R38s were a St. Louis Product. Weirdly at the same exact time SEPTA got their Silverliner IIs from Budd and Silverliner IIIs from St. Louis and just like R32/R38s they ran mixed most of the time. It's an odd relationship but St. Louis Car Company was great for making cars compatible to their older counterparts, or "Back-mating" if you will.
How I think Metrorail should do it is they need to run 6 car trains on the Orange line during peak hours and 4 car trains on the Green line during all hours. They would still have plenty of spare trains that way.
***** Yes and No. They do have enough cars to cover 6 car trains, but this leave little "spares" that are need in case of train failure, and train failure is common with these subway cars. Plus you have around 10 cars who are stored in dead storage due to past derailments and defects. Not to mention trains in the shop at varying times and number of cards so when you break it down like this, 4 car trains make sense. The little ridership help backed this decision up.
mmm I've seen a screenshot of the actual train location screen in some control center that show how few trains are on the lines, or you can just literally divide the time of the line (
Eh, had an Ex who worked for Mover, trust me when I say that never happened. His job requires him to go back and forth from Mover to Metrorail to transfer parts and he tell me what's in the yard and what's not and there's about 5 pairs who are out of service. There were derailments, nothing major but enough to cause many dollars in damage. Very recently a train split the switch, now that's at yard. All 4 cars.
Unfortunately there's only a handful of those budd cars that are active one of them which I'm surprised came back in service after being in the yard for about 3 years is cars 183-184
NOT airport - Orange goes to Airport, but there is a train that goes to Doral station by Palmetto 826 HWY and there you can take the City of Doral Trolley.
Nicholette Casey amen. those trolleys are the worst. theyre free, yet compete with real busses, so it incentivizes people to abandon the bus. the countys gotta expand the metrorail and fix the busses already!
They should color-code the trains to indicate Green Line or Orange Line, like Boston's MBTA does. (The MBTA's old scheme from the 1960s was much better IMO - line color fascia skirt, white middle at the windows, grey roof)
+PfctvsPontivsPilatvs That wouldn't work since the two line share 90% of the route and cars always rotate between the two lines. Now if it was completely separate lines, I'd be for it. Like in Philadelphia, MFL trains has a blue stripe on the roofline, the BSL has an orange stripe on the roofline.
Nicholette Casey Yeah, you're right. I was thinking about this since I posted and realised that. The Miami-Dade transit people should name them "A" Trains (for the Airport) and "B" Trains (for the other branch) just like the NYC MTA does, so you don't have to remember "take the 8th Avenue Subway to Rockaway".
Fortunately, those old cards are over due. I Have been to the the Metrorail (and the bus as well) for over one year, from Dadeland South to Palmetto: Summary: Delay schedules(almost daily), Dirt, Filthy, Drug Dealers, No security, etc. A few complains and reports(311): Some a.h. lean on a foot at the brand new [stainless] door; an "University of Miami" student(man), seat on the brand new seat train; Several-old and new bus-men or girl students, seat on their seat, and take another seat for their sake of it. Some students have no education and/or manners; but an " educated 'University' of Miami"??? The Hitachi train was the best. However, Japan cannot help to educate foreigners. Those 'foreigners' should have train their minds in Japan.
Why would they build a system like this in my ammy when the city barely has 300 and some 1000 people not even a map. compared to cities like New York and Chicago
Because....The 80s. That's Why. Before Miami declined in population briefly in the 1990s and 2000s, the system was seen as the "Wave the future" to serve the booming (cocaine-fueled) nightclub scene. There was just one problem. They never approved of Phase II or III of the line which would've had connected to more places around the city, like South Beach and Florida City, thus making it more useful. Only Phase I was built and Phase II was compromised with a damn useless busway south of Dadeland South Station. They have been trying to approve a new northward extension towards Boward County via SW 27th Ave as well as convert that half-ass busway into an extension of this. Thought to be fair, in 2009 the Metrorail was connected to the Airport so that spiked ridership up pretty well and now that Miami is growing again, more people are calling for Metrorail to come to them. We'll see how this peters out. Especially with an Anti-Metrorail Mayor whose hell bent on busways.
