Government Center station is an intermodal transit hub in the Government Center district of Downtown Miami, Florida. It is operated by Miami-Dade Transit and serves as a transfer station for the Metrorail and Metromover rapid transit systems and as a bus station for Metrobus, Paratransit, and Broward County Transit buses. The station is located near the intersection of Northwest First Street and First Avenue, a part of the Stephen P. Clark Government Center Building. It opened to service May 20, 1984, next to the site of a former FEC railway station.
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History
Florida East Coast Railroad station
Next to Government Center site was originally a railroad station developed in April 1896 as the southern terminus of Henry Flagler's Florida East Coast Railway (FEC). The downtown passenger terminal was demolished by November 1963. Although a new station was planned at the Buena Vista yard near North Miami Avenue and 36th Street (US 27), it was never built. The site of the old station was parking lots on the east side of the modern transportation hub until 2014. It is now the construction site of the MiamiCentral station of All Aboard Florida's Brightline.
Metrorail and Metromover station
Development of the civic center was reinvigorated during the 1970s and early 1980s during a Downtown building boom. The boom spurred the development and construction the Stephen P. Clark Government Center, Metrorail, Metromover, and the Miami-Dade Cultural Plaza, which currently includes the Miami Art Museum, the Historical Museum of Southern Florida and the Miami Main Library.
Construction on the present-day Government Center station began in June 1982. The station was primarily designed by the Cambridge Seven Associates in collaboration with Edward D. Stone. The station was built by the Frank J. Rooney Construction Company. Metrorail service, between Overtown and Kendall, following the precise route of the FEC, commenced service May 1984.
An unused, partially completed ghost platform for a future East-West Metrorail line is adjacent to the west side of the mezzanine level below the current Metrorail station and is easily visible to passengers transferring from Metromover to Metrorail. This platform was part of the original design concept which interfaced with the atrium of the Miami-Dade County Administration Building, and the people mover station.
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Levels
The first floor of the complex is on the ground level of the Stephen P. Clark Government Center and includes the platform for the Downtown Loop of Metromover.
The second floor of the complex includes the main fare control for Metrorail and two side platforms for the Brickell and Omni Metromover loops. It also features the Metrofare Shops area.
The third floor of the complex is a mezzanine. Access to the Metrorail platform above and both Metromover platforms below provides for easy transfers. A ghost platform for a never-built east-west Metrorail line is located on this level.
The fourth floor of the complex is the Metrorail platform. It is served by Orange and Green line trains. This section of the station is composed of two tracks and one island platform. It is the highest transit platform of the Miami-Dade Transit system in height and can hold up to eight Metrorail cars.
Future
The Florida East Coast Railway still owns the land alongside the current Government Center station and is returning inter-city rail service to the site with an intermodal transit hub serviced by their Brightline service to Downtown West Palm Beach and a newly introduced SFRTA Tri-Rail Downtown Miami Link line to West Palm Beach at Mangonia Park in 2017.
Places of interest
- Downtown Miami
- Neighborhoods: Omni, Park West, and Miami Jewelry District
- Miami Art Museum
- Historical Museum of Southern Florida
- Miami Main Library
- Stephen P. Clark Government Center
- Miami-Dade County Courthouse
- Museum Tower
- Courthouse Center
- U.S. Courthouse Building
- Freedom Tower
- The Congress Building
- Downtown Omni Bus Terminal
- American Airlines Arena
- Bayside Marketplace
- Flagler Street
- Bayfront Park
- Bicentennial Park
- Miami Art Museum
- Adrienne Arsht Center for the Performing Arts
- New World School of the Arts
- Miami Dade College - Wolfson Campus
- Olympia Theater
- Miami Beach and South Beach (via lettered Metrobus routes or taxicabs)
Transit connections
Metrobus
BCT
Gallery
See also
- Transportation in South Florida
References
External links
- MDT - Metrorail Stations
- MDT - Metromover Stations
- 1st Street entrance from Google Maps Street View
Source of the article : Wikipedia
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