Metrobus (Miami-Dade County)

Metrobus

S (now 100) Route at Adrienne Arsht Center Metromover station
Parent	Miami-Dade County
Founded	August 2, 1960
Headquarters	Overtown Transit Village
Locale	Miami, Florida
Service area	Greater Miami, Broward, and Monroe Counties
Service type	Bus Bus rapid transit
Alliance	Broward County Transit
Routes	93 (including 2 contracted routes)
Stops	over 8,000
Fleet	846 buses: 40ft and 60ft NABI 30ft and 40ft Gillig 40ft Proterra (2022) 40ft and 60ft New Flyer Buses
Daily ridership	191,200 (weekdays, Q3 2024) [1]
Annual ridership	58,282,300 (2023) [2]
Fuel type	Diesel Diesel-electric Electric CNG
Operator	Miami-Dade Transit
Website	miamidade.gov/transit

The Metrobus network provides bus service throughout Miami-Dade County 365 days a year, operated by Miami-Dade Transit. It consists of about 79 routes and 771 buses, which connect most points in the county and part of southern Broward County as well. As of 2023, the system has 58,282,300 rides per year, or about 191,200 per day in the third quarter of 2024.

Seven routes operate around the clock: Routes 3, 11, 27, 38, 77, 79 (No 24-hour service to Hialeah, all trips terminate at Northside Station) and 100. Routes 246 Night Owl & Route 500 Midnight Owl operate from midnight to 5 am. Other routes operate from 4:30 am to 1:30 am. All Metrobuses are wheelchair accessible, in compliance with the Americans with Disabilities Act of 1990 and equipped with Bicycle racks.

Bus route 301 (Dade-Monroe Express) extends into Monroe County, reaching Marathon, where a transfer is available to a Key West Transit bus proceeding further into the Keys. With the appropriate bus transfers, one can travel all the way from Key West to Jupiter entirely on public-transit buses. Metrobus has many connections to Metrorail and Metromover, also operated by Miami-Dade Transit, mainly in the city of Miami.

Added to the Metrorail on August 21, 2019, and Metrobus on December 23, 2019, Miami-Dade Transit riders are able to use their smartphones/smartwatches to pay (Apple Pay, Google Pay, Samsung Pay, Fitbit Pay, Garmin Pay) and be able to use their credit or debit card that is contactless enabled (Amex, Visa, Mastercard). As of the 2019 implementation of tap to pay, Discover cards via tap to pay, are not accepted systemwide.

History

County's first air conditioned bus shelter at Hialeah station.

Bus ridership has reached as high as 293,000 daily, ^[3] but is generally around a quarter million. It reached a high during the real estate bubble of the 2000s, then declined during the bad economy amid service cuts during the Great Recession, before rising again in the 2010s. From 2015 into 2016, bus ridership fell sharply, down to a low of 195,000 daily in June 2016, ^[4] amid the lowest gas prices in over a decade, despite a locally strong economy and steady population gain. This during a time when much effort was going into enhancements, such as an air-conditioned bus shelter, mobile ticketing, and new rolling stock, including electric buses. ^[5] Part of the problem is that buses, unlike other transit alternatives, are not exempt from the increasing traffic present. ^[6] Nationally, bus ridership fell while rail ridership increased slightly in 2015. ^[7]

Routes

Route Name	Terminal 1	Terminal 2	via	Length	notes
2	Downtown Southwest 1st Avenue & 1st Street	Little River/El Portal Northeast 84th Street & Northeast 2nd Avenue	Northwest 2nd Avenue	6.4 mi (10.3 km)
3 Biscayne Local	Downtown Downtown Metrobus Terminal	Aventura Aventura Mall	Biscayne Boulevard	14.5 mi (23.3 km)	24-hour service
7	Downtown Northeast 1st Avenue & 4th Street	Sweetwater Dolphin Mall	Northwest 7th Street, Fontainebleau Boulevard	15.0 mi (24.1 km)
7A		Miami Intermodal Center	Northwest 7th Street	7.8 mi (12.6 km)	No off-peak service
8	Brickell Brickell station	West End Southwest 26th Street & 147th Avenue	Southwest 8th Street (Tamiami Trail), Southwest 26th Street/Coral Way	20.1 mi (32.3 km)	No weekend service
		University Park FIU Maidique Bus Terminal	Southwest 7th/8th Streets (Tamiami Trail)	11.7 mi (18.8 km)	All weekend service
		Westchester Southwest 82nd Avenue & Southwest 8th Street		8.6 mi (13.8 km)	Alternate rush hour trips
9	Downtown Downtown Bus Terminal	Aventura Aventura Mall	Northeast 2nd Avenue, Northeast 12th Avenue, Miami Gardens Drive	17.2 mi (27.7 km)	Trips alternate between each line Route 9 trips before 6 AM run via NE 6th Avenue between 167th Street and Miami Gardens Drive
9A			Northeast 2nd Avenue, Northeast 6th Avenue, Biscayne Boulevard	16.5 mi (26.6 km)
11 Flagler Local	Downtown Downtown Bus Terminal	University Park FIU Maidique Bus Terminal	Southwest 1st Street (EB), Flagler Street	12.0 mi (19.3 km)	24-hour service
12	Gladeview Northside station	Coconut Grove Mercy Hospital	Northwest/Southwest 12th Avenue	11.7 mi (18.8 km)	Interlined with route 21 north of Northwest 20th Street
14	Downtown Omni Terminal/Arsht Metromover station	Nautilus Mt. Sinai Medical Center	MacArthur Causeway, Lincoln Road, Collins Avenue	9.5 mi (15.3 km)
15		City Center Park Avenue & 22nd Street	Venetian Causeway, 17th Street	5.4 mi (8.7 km)
17	The Roads Vizcaya station	North Miami Beach The Mall at 163rd Street	Northwest 17th Avenue, Northwest 22nd Avenue	26.4 mi (42.5 km)	Trips alternate between each line
17A		Gladeview Northside station	Northwest 17th Avenue	11.3 mi (18.2 km)
20	City Center Washington Avenue and 17th Street	Miami Intermodal Center	Alton Road, MacArthur Causeway, Northwest 20th Street	13.7 mi (22.0 km)	Interlined with route 32 between Omni Terminal and Northwest 36th Street Interlined with route 101 between Omni Terminal and 17th Street
21	Downtown Downtown Metrobus Terminal	Gladeview Northside station	Northwest 12th Avenue	9.8 mi (15.8 km)	Interlined with route 12 north of Northwest 20th Street
22	Coconut Grove Coconut Grove station	Westview Miami-Dade College North	Southwest/Northwest 22nd Avenue	13.2 mi (21.2 km)
24 Coral Way Limited	Brickell Brickell station	University Park FIU Maidique Bus Terminal	Coral Way	12.5 mi (20.1 km)	Trips alternate between each terminal Makes limited stops east of Ponce De Leon Boulevard
		Coral Gables Andalusia Avenue & Le Jeune Road		6.0 mi (9.7 km)
26		Key Biscayne Crandon Boulevard and Arthur Lamb Jr. Road (Bill Baggs Cape Florida State Park)	Rickenbacker Causeway/Crandon Boulevard	9.0 mi (14.5 km)
27	Miami Gardens Northwest 207th Street & 27th Avenue	Coconut Grove Coconut Grove station	Southwest/Northwest 27th Avenue	19.1 mi (30.7 km)	Trips alternate between each branch 27A has 24-hour service (Overnight trips do not enter Brownsville or Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. stations)
27A			Southwest/Northwest 27th Avenue, Northwest 37th Avenue
32	Downtown Omni Terminal/Arsht Metromover station	Miami Gardens Northwest 47th Avenue & 199th Street	Northwest 20th Street, Northwest 32nd Avenue, Northwest 47th Avenue	23.2 mi (37.3 km)	Interlined with route 20 south of Northwest 36th Street
34 Transitway Express	Kendall Dadeland South station	Florida City Southwest 344th Street Park & Ride	South Dade Transitway, Florida Turnpike	20.1 mi (32.3 km) (peak-direction) 26.3 mi (42.3 km) (reverse peak-direction)	No off-peak service Peak direction trips are non-stop north of 152nd Street, makes limited stops south of 152nd Street Peak direction trips run via South Dade Transitway, reverse-peak direction trips run nonstop via Florida Turnpike and Don Shula Expressway
35	Cutler Bay Southwest 102nd Avenue & 211th Street (Southland Mall)		Southwest 112th Avenue, Moody Drive/Southwest 268th Street, Campbell Drive/Southwest 312th Street	24.1 mi (38.8 km)
36	Doral Northwest 53rd Street & 87th Avenue	City Center Lincoln Road & Washington Avenue	Northwest 36th Street, Julia Tuttle Causeway, Collins Avenue	18.4 mi (29.6 km)	Trips alternate between each branch
36A	Miami Intermodal Center			11.8 mi (19.0 km)
37	Miami Intermodal Center	Coral Way Douglas Road station	Northwest/Southwest 37th Avenue	5.1 mi (8.2 km)	Trips alternate between each branch
	Country Club/Carol City Red Road Transit Hub	South Miami South Miami station	Palm Avenue, Northwest/Southwest 37th Avenue, Southwest 72nd Street (Sunset Drive)	23.8 mi (38.3 km)
38 Transitway MAX	Kendall Dadeland South station	Florida City Southwest 344th Street Park & Ride	South Dade Transitway	19.5 mi (31.4 km)	24-hour service
39 Transitway Express		Cutler Bay South Dade Government Center	South Dade Transitway, Florida Turnpike	9.5 mi (15.3 km) (peak direction) 13.4 mi (21.6 km) (reverse-peak direction)	No off-peak service Peak direction trips are non-stop north of 152nd Street, makes limited stops south of 152nd Street Peak direction trips run via South Dade Transitway, reverse-peak direction trips run nonstop via Florida Turnpike and Don Shula Expressway
40	Coral Way Douglas Road station	Kendall West Southwest 152nd Avenue and 42nd Street	Bird Road (Southwest 40th/42nd Streets)	11.9 mi (19.2 km)
52	Kendall Dadeland North station	Cutler Bay Community Health of South Florida-Doris Ison Health Center	South Dade Busway, Southwest 112th Avenue	20.4 mi (32.8 km)	Temporarily extended on weekdays to Dadeland North station due to construction at Dadeland South station
54	Upper Eastside Northeast 61st Street and 4th Court	Palm Springs North Northwest 186th Street and 87th Avenue	Northwest 54th Street, Northwest 82nd Avenue	20.5 miles (33.0 km)	No weekend service
		Hialeah Gardens Northwest 87th Court and 114th Street	Northwest 54th Street	14.4 miles (23.2 km)	Alternate weekday and all weekend trips
56	Riviera University station	Kendall West Southwest 56th Street and 152nd Avenue	Miller Road (Southwest 56th Street)	14.6 mi (23.5 km)	No Sunday service
57		Miami Intermodal Center	Southwest 42nd Avenue (Le Jeune Road)	16.9 mi (27.2 km)	No weekend service Previously northern half of 56
62	Upper Eastside Northeast 61st Street and Biscayne Boulevard	Hialeah West 3rd Street and Palm Avenue	Northwest 62nd Street	7.6 miles (12.2 km)
		Gladeview Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. Plaza station		4.2 miles (6.8 km)	Alternate trips
70	Cutler Bay Southwest 102nd Avenue & 211th Street (Southland Mall)	Florida City Southwest 344th Street Park & Ride	Southwest 112th Avenue, Southwest 248th Street, Dixie Highway	19.4 miles (31.2 km)
72 Sunset Local	South Miami South Miami station	The Hammocks West Kendall Transit Terminal	Southwest 72nd Street (Sunset Drive)	12.1 miles (19.5 km)
73	Hialeah Okeechobee station	Kendall Dadeland North station	Northwest 72nd Avenue (Miami Dairy Road), Southwest 67th Avenue (Ludlam Road)	12.8 miles (20.6 km)
		Kendall Southwest 92nd Avenue and 152nd Street (Southwest 152nd Street Transitway Station)	Northwest 72nd Avenue (Miami Dairy Road), Southwest 67th Avenue (Ludlam Road), Southwest 57th Avenue (Red Road)	22.1 miles (35.6 km)	Alternate rush hour trips
75	Sunny Isles Beach Sunny Isles Beach Government Center	Miami Lakes Northwest 57th Avenue and 163rd Street (Miami Lakes Educational Center)	Northeast 163rd Street, Northeast 167th Street, Northwest 175th Street	17.3 miles (27.8 km)	Trips alternate between 75 and 75A No 75 weekend service west of Red Road Transit Hub
		Country Club/Carol City Red Road Transit Hub		14.9 miles (24.0 km)
75A	North Miami FIU Biscayne Bay Campus	Golden Glades Golden Glades Park and Ride	Northeast 163rd Street, Northeast 167th Street	7.0 miles (11.3 km)
77	Downtown Downtown Bus Terminal	Norland Northwest 7th Avenue & 183rd Street	Northwest 7th Avenue	15.6 miles (25.1 km)	Trips alternate between clockwise and counterclockwise north of 183rd Street 24-hour service counterclockwise
79 79th Street Local	City Center Lincoln Road & Washington Avenue	Hialeah Hialeah station	Collins Avenue, Indian Creek Drive, Northeast/Northwest 79th Street	15.5 miles (24.9 km)
		Gladeview Northside station		13.3 miles (21.4 km)	Overnight service
87	Medley Palmetto station	Kendall Dadeland North station	Northwest/Southwest 87th Avenue	15.6 miles (25.1 km)
88 Kendall Local	Kendall Dadeland North station	The Hammocks West Kendall Transit Terminal	Southwest 88th Street (Kendall Drive)	9.8 miles (15.8 km)
95 Golden Glades Express	Downtown Northwest 8th Street and 1st Court	Golden Glades Golden Glades Park and Ride	Interstate 95	12.4 miles (20.0 km)	Select 95 and 95A trips run north of Golden Glades Park and Ride No reverse-peak service on 95B No reverse-peak service north of Golden Glades Park and Ride No off-peak service
		Country Club Miami Gardens Drive and Northwest 73rd Avenue Park and Ride	Interstate 95, Northwest 183rd Street (Miami Gardens Drive)	21.4 miles (34.4 km)
95A Golden Glades Express	Allapattah UHealth-Jackson station (AM rush hours) Santa Clara station (PM rush hours)	Golden Glades Golden Glades Park and Ride	Interstate 95	11.3 miles (18.2 km)
		Aventura Aventura Mall	Interstate 95, Miami Gardens Drive	19.2 miles (30.9 km)
95B Golden Glades Express	Doral Northwest 87th Avenue and 36th Street	Golden Glades Golden Glades Park and Ride	Northwest 36th Street, Airport Expressway, Interstate 95	19.9 miles (32.0 km)
97	West Perrine Southwest 168th Street and Dixie Highway (Southwest 168th Street Transitway Station)	South Miami Heights Quail Roost Drive and Southwest 115th Avenue	Southwest 97th Avenue, Caribbean Boulevard	7.3 miles (11.7 km)
100	Downtown Northwest 1st Street & 1st Avenue	Aventura Aventura Mall	MacArthur Causeway, Indian Creek Drive, Harding Avenue, Collins Avenue	20.6 miles (33.2 km)	24 hour-service
		North Bal Harbour Haulover Park		15.2 miles (24.5 km)	Every third weekday daytime and alternate weekend trip
101		Nautilus Mt. Sinai Medical Center	MacArthur Causway, Alton Road	8.4 miles (13.5 km)	No weekend service Interlined with route 20 between Omni Terminal and 17th Street Previously MetroLink Alton
103	Upper Eastside Northeast 5th Avenue and 81st Street	Hialeah Gardens Northwest 87th Avenue and 103rd Street	Northwest 103rd Street (East/West 49th Street)	11.9 miles (19.2 km)
104 Killian Local	Kendall Dadeland North station	The Hammocks West Kendall Transit Terminal	Southwest 88th Street (Kendall Drive), Southwest 104th Street (Killian Parkway)	12.6 miles (20.3 km)	Trips alternate between each line
104A Killian Local				11.7 miles (18.8 km)
107	Sweetwater Dolphin Mall	Cutler Bay South Dade Government Center	Southwest 107th Avenue, Southwest 112th Avenue, Southwest 117th Avenue	23.6 miles (38.0 km)
125	North Beach Harding Avenue and 94th Street	Westview Miami-Dade College North	Northeast 123rd/125th Streets, Northwest 119th Street	9.0 miles (14.5 km)
132 Tri-Rail Doral Shuttle	Hialeah Hialeah Market station	Doral Northwest 53rd Street and 79th Avenue	Northwest 36th Street	6.8 miles (10.9 km)	Trips alternate between clockwise and counterclockwise west of 79th Avenue No off-peak service
135	North Miami FIU Biscayne Bay Campus	Opa-locka Opa-locka station	Northeast/Northwest 135th Street, Opa-locka Boulevard (WB)	8.9 miles (14.3 km)
136	Coral Way Douglas Road station	Kendall Southwest 89th Place and 136th Street	Southwest 42nd Avenue (Le Jeune Road), Old Cutler Road, Southwest 136th Street (Howard Drive)	10.5 miles (16.9 km)	No reverse-peak or off-peak service
137 West Dade Connection	Sweetwater Dolphin Mall	Cutler Bay South Dade Government Center	Southwest 137th Avenue (Lindgren Road)	24.2 miles (38.9 km)
150 Miami Beach Airport Express	South of Fifth Washington Avenue and South Pointe Drive	Miami Intermodal Center	Washington Avenue, Collins Avenue, Julia Tuttle Causeway, Airport Expressway	13.8 miles (22.2 km)	Makes limited stops east of Alton Road
152	Country Walk Southwest 152nd Avenue and 152nd Street	Kendall Southwest 152nd Street Transitway Station	Southwest 152nd Street (Coral Reef Drive)	8.8 miles (14.2 km)	Weekday service
				11.4 miles (18.3 km)	Weekend service via Zoo Miami
183	Hialeah Okeechobee station	Aventura Aventura Mall	West 12th Avenue/Northwest 67th Avenue (Ludlam Road), Northwest 183rd Street (Miami Gardens Drive)	20.3 miles (32.7 km)
199	Country Club/Carol City Red Road Transit Hub		Northwest 57th Avenue (Red Road), Northwest 199th Street (Honey Hill Drive), Northwest 215th Street (County Line Road), Northeast 203rd Street (Ives Dairy Road)	17.7 miles (28.5 km)
203 Biscayne MAX	Downtown Downtown Metrobus Terminal	Aventura Aventura Mall	Biscayne Boulevard	14.5 mi (23.3 km)	No off-peak service Makes limited stops between 19th Street and 163rd Street
204 Killian MAX	Kendall Dadeland North station	The Hammocks West Kendall Transit Terminal	Snapper Creek Expressway, Don Shula Expressway, Southwest 104th Street (Killian Parkway)	13.0 mi (20.9 km)	No off-peak service Peak direction trips stop in Hammocks Town Center and operate via Kendall Drive in The Hammocks, reverse peak trips do not stop in Hammocks Town Center and operate via Southwest 96th Street in The Hammocks Makes limited stops east of Hammocks Town Center
207 Little Havana Connection	Brickell Brickell station		Southwest 7th Street (Tamiami Trail), Southwest 1st Street	7.0 miles (11.3 km)	Clockwise circulator loop
208 Little Havana Connection			Flagler Street, Southwest 8th Street (Tamiami Trail/Calle Ocho)	7.3 mi (11.7 km)	Counterclockwise circulator loop
211 Flagler MAX	Downtown Downtown Bus Terminal	Sweetwater Southwest 108th Avenue and Flagler	Southwest 1st Street (EB), Flagler Street	11.2 mi (18.0 km)	No off-peak service Makes limited stops
272 Sunset MAX	Kendall Dadeland North station	The Hammocks West Kendall Transit Terminal	Snapper Creek Expressway, Southwest 72nd Street (Sunset Drive), Southwest 162nd Avenue	11.7 mi (18.8 km)
287 Saga Bay MAX	Kendall West Dadeland South station	Cutler Bay Community Health of South Florida-Doris Ison Health Center	South Dade Transitway, Southwest 87th Avenue	12.1 miles (19.5 km)
288 Kendall MAX	Kendall Dadeland North station	The Hammocks West Kendall Transit Terminal	Snapper Creek Expressway, Southwest 88th Street (Kendall Drive)	11.8 miles (19.0 km)	Peak direction trips operate via 80th Street in the Hammocks No off-peak service Makes limited stops
301 Dade/Monroe Express	Florida City Southwest 344th Street Park & Ride	Marathon Mile Marker 50 (Marathon)	Dixie Highway/Overseas Highway	80.4 miles (129.4 km)	Select trips short turn at Islamorada or Tavernier
302 Card Sound Express	Florida City West Palm Drive and 5th Avenue	North Key Largo Ocean Reef Club Village	Card Sound Road, County Road 905	20.8 miles (33.5 km)	No service outside of 5:30-7:55 AM and 2:35 PM-5:00 PM everyday
338 Weekend Express	Miami Intermodal Center	Sweetwater Dolphin Mall	Dolphin Expressway	9.8 miles (15.8 km)	No weekday service
344	Homestead Miami-Dade College Homestead	Southwest Florida City Southwest 193rd Avenue and 378th Street	Southwest 177th Avenue (Krome Avenue), Southwest 344th Street (East/West Palm Drive)	9.5 miles (15.3 km)	No Sunday service
400 South Owl	Downtown Southwest 1st Street& 1st Court	Kendall West Dadeland South station	Dixie Highway	11.7 mi (18.8 km)	No daytime service
401 North Owl	Downtown Downtown Bus Terminal	North Miami Beach The Mall at 163rd Street	Northwest 12th Avenue, Northwest 22nd Avenue	19.2 mi (30.9 km)
500 Cutler Bay Circulator	Cutler Bay Old Cutler Road and Old Cutler Town Center		Dixie Highway, Southwest 87th Avenue	13.4 mi (21.6 km)	No morning or evening service Clockwise circulator loop
510 Skylake Circulator	North Miami Beach The Mall at 163rd Street	Ojus Northeast 185th Street and 18th Avenue	Northeast 19th Avenue	5.1 mi (8.2 km)	Community circulator
836 Express	Downtown Downtown Bus Terminal	North Tamiami Dolphin Station Park and Ride	Dolphin Expressway	15.3 miles (24.6 km)	No weekend service
837 Express		West End Tamiami Station Park and Ride		18.8 miles (30.3 km)	No off-peak service

South Dade TransitWay

a bus stop and a level crossing on the South Miami-Dade Busway (2012)

North end of the busway in Dadeland.

Legend

Metrorail ■ ■ Dadeland South SW 104 St / Killlian Dr SW 112 St / Killian Dr SW 120 St / Montgomery Dr SW 124 St / Chapman Field Dr SW 128 St SW 136 St SW 144 St / Mitchell Dr SW 152 St SW 160 St / Colonial Dr SW 168 St SW 173 St / Banyan Dr W Indigo St SW 184 St Marlin Dr SW 200 St SW 112 Ave SW 216 St SW 220 St / Old Cutler Rd SW 232 St / Silver Palm SW 244 St SW 264 St SW 272 St / Epmore Dr SW 280 St / Waldin Dr SW 296 St SW 312 St Civic Ct SW 324 St / SW 4 St SW 328 St / Lucy St SW 177 Ave / Krome Ave SW 344 St

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The South Dade TransitWay (originally named the South Dade Busway) is a basic bus rapid transit system, or busway, in southern Miami-Dade County. It began operating from the Dadeland South Metrorail station to SW 112th Avenue on February 3, 1997, and was extended to SW 264th Street on April 24, 2005. The final 6.5-mile (10.5 km) segment of the Busway extension to SW 344th Street in Florida City opened on Sunday, December 16, 2007. It is parallel to US1/ S Dixie Highway, and runs along the abandoned Florida East Coast Railway line. It is an alternative to daily traffic congestion. The 13-mile (21 km) roadway was built by the Florida Department of Transportation just for Metrobus routes and emergency vehicles. Express buses on the exclusive lanes shuttle passengers to and from Dadeland South Station (see Metrorail) in about an hour or less.

Both full-size and articulated buses operate on the Busway and in adjacent neighborhoods, entering the exclusive lanes at major intersections. Local and limited-stop service is offered between Florida City and Dadeland South Metrorail Station. Park & Ride lots along the busway are located at SW 152d Street (Coral Reef Drive), SW 168th Street (Richmond Drive), SW 112th Avenue, SW 244th Street, and SW 296th Street. At Dadeland South Station, riders transfer to Metrorail. Riders headed downtown can transfer from Metrorail to Metromover, which consists of three shorter downtown loops, at Government Center Station.

The South Miami-Dade Busway features 28 stops, all of which look like light-rail style stations. A multi-use path stretches the length of the Busway. The busway stops featured large shelters to provide protection from the sun and rain. These are currently being rebuilt with the reconstruction of the South Dade TransitWay.

The Institute for Transportation and Development Policy (ITDP), under its BRT Standard, has given the Busway a preliminary classification as a "Basic BRT" corridor. ^[8]

Routes that use the transitway

• 34 TransitWay Express - Travels the entire length of the transitway, but does not stop at any stops before Southland Mall. It also bypasses the transitway via the Turnpike Highway on a bi-directional basis.
• 38 TransitWay MAX - Travels the entire length of the transitway and deviates from the route slightly to serve Southland Mall.
• 39 TransitWay Express - Travels between Dadeland North Metrorail Station and Southland Mall, but does not stop at any stops before SW 152nd Street. It also bypasses the transitway via the Turnpike Highway on a bi-directional basis.
• 52 - Begins at Dadeland North Metrorail Station, then runs along the transitway to SW 152nd street, before becoming a Richmond Heights and Goulds local route.
• 97 - Serves the stop at 173rd street and a route that travels through Perrine, Florida, and Quail Roost DR which every bus passes every half-hour.
• 287 Saga Bay MAX - Begins at Dadeland South Metrorail Station, then runs along the transitway to SW 168th Street, before running as an express route through West Perrine and Saga Bay.

Busway vs. rail controversy

The Busway has been the site of many accidents, as some car drivers driving south on US 1 (which runs parallel to the Busway for much of its length) and looking to turn west do not stop at the red arrows that govern the right turn lane at an intersection that has a Busway crossing adjacent to it. They make a right turn and go right into the path of a bus that is entering the adjacent Busway intersection. Buses currently must slow down to 15 mph (24 km/h) before crossing the intersection, and the police often patrol the intersections looking for red arrow runners. Surprisingly, even the intersections on which the Busway runs as far as two blocks west of US 1 suffer the same problem, with car drivers not seeing or flatly ignoring the red lights at SW 184th and 186th Streets. City planners and residents alike have commented that rather than dismantling the former Florida East Coast Railroad line for the busway, the Metrorail system could have been extended southward over the railway line.

Major incidents

April 2012: In the early morning hours of Friday April 13, 2012, an SUV driving southbound illegally down the Busway (as it was known then) by a drunk driver at more than 100 miles per hour (against a 40 mile per hour speed limit) slammed into a mini-van traveling eastbound on SW 184th Street, t-boning the eastbound vehicle, continuing southbound before spiraling out of control, and stopped adjacent to the Northbound SW 184th Street station. One teen was killed, three others (including the drunk driver) were injured, and the drunk driver was arrested. ^[9] Fortunately, no Metrobus drivers or passengers were injured or killed as no buses were passing through SW 184th Street or stopping at the SW 184th Street stations at the time of the crash. However, the crash caused delays to several Metrobus routes as portions of both SW 184th Street and the Busway were shut down for an extended period of time.

September 2017: On September 10, 2017, Hurricane Irma made landfall in Cudjoe Key as a Category 4 Hurricane. Although the Transitway did not receive hurricane-force winds, several canopies were damaged during the hurricane and subsequently removed. The replacement of canopies fell behind schedule and remains unfinished, as of March 2018 ^[update] . ^[10]

February 2019: On February 6, 2019, a car and bus collided near SW 248th Street. There were no fatalities. However, fourteen people were injured, two seriously. ^[11]

Future (Gold Standard Bus Rapid Transit)

The Miami-Dade Department of Transportation and Public Works broke ground on the South Dade TransitWay gold standard bus rapid transit line on June 4, 2021. ^[12] It will provide a direct transfer to the Metrorail at the Dadeland South Station, extending Miami-Dade Transit's rapid transit system up to Florida City. The opening of the gold standard BRT line is expected for 2025. ^{[13] [14]} The new line will have 2 terminals and 14 new iconic BRT stations, all featuring fare gates, center platform boarding, all-door and level boarding, next bus arrival screens, air conditioned waiting areas, and other rail-like amenities. These stations can be converted to Metrorail stations in the future. Signal preemption and level crossing gates will be implemented at various roadway intersections along the transitway. ^[12] The BRT will use 60-foot New Flyer Xcelsior battery-electric articulated buses. ^[15] Also in the works is the South Dade Transit Operations Center. It will be the first all-electric bus maintenance facility in Miami-Dade County and it will be located next to the Homestead Air Reserve Base. This facility will charge and maintain the 100 60-foot battery-electric articulated buses of the South Dade TransitWay and will host parts and equipment for maintenance of the transitway's gate arms.

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  Photo showing construction of Marlin Road station. This station will be served by the BRT line.
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  Photo showing a gate arm at the SW 200th Street intersection that will go down when a BRT vehicle is approaching.
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  Photo showing construction of the new SW 200th Street station. This station will be served by the BRT line.
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  Photo showing construction of the new SW 264th Street station. This station will be served by the BRT line.

Ridership

Ridership detail by average daily ridership on weekdays by month, with yearly average and highest ridership month in bold. Note the generally lower ridership during the summer months and December, month of the long Christmas and holiday season. Ridership has been falling since 2014 amid widespread rider complaints, an aging fleet, and sharply declining gas prices beginning in late 2014. Starting in 2016, this was also affecting Metrorail ridership. By 2016, 70% of the bus fleet was considered beyond its expected useful life, as the county was in the process of buying 30 electric buses with an option for 20 more. ^[16] This is well under 10% of a fleet of nearly 1,000 buses. Other upgrades included a new mobile ticketing and contactless payment system, as well as upgrades to bus stops, including covering shelter-less bus stops and air conditioning at select locations. By mid 2016, average daily ridership was over 100,000 below a pre-recession peak in November 2007, ^[17] and May, June, July, and August 2016 ^[18] were the lowest ridership months in over a decade. Some of the ridership loss may be accounted for by overlap and growth of the free Miami Trolley and other pseudo-bus systems. Very poor numbers in October 2016 across the entire system were partially blamed on one day of closures for Hurricane Matthew, ^[19] which passed close to South Florida. Similarly, September 2017, the month of Hurricane Irma, saw even lower ridership. 2016 was the lowest ridership year since online records began in 1998. Summer 2017 saw weekday ridership decline another 10% on top of sustained decline. ^[20] January 2018's ridership of 162,300 is the lowest since at least the 90s with the exception of the month Hurricane Irma hit. Annual ridership figures are rounded to the nearest 100.

#	Month	1999	2000	2001	2002	2003	2004	2005	2006	2007	2008	2009	2010	2011	2012	2013	2014	2015	2016	2017
1	January	212,100	216,700	215,700	208,150	205,800	231,500	242,100	265,400	260,200	258,600	244,500	222,300	238,500	248,900	248,200	241,900	240,400	209,600	192,900
2	February	218,350	220,000	227,400	216,300	219,200	240,800	251,000	267,300	266,600	266,400	254,400	230,000	253,100	257,500	264,500	258,800	238,000	217,600	203,600
3	March	215,000	220,350	221,800	209,800	217,600	238,500	246,700	270,500	270,900	266,900	252,000	229,700	250,900	260,000	258,100	250,800	249,100	210,200	196,300
4	April	205,800	204,400	210,250	207,350	208,100	227,700	251,400	260,000	257,000	265,500	256,600	230,400	249,200	255,800	255,600	250,000	232,000	214,500	193,900
5	May	208,900	214,000	210,450	206,300	208,900	237,600	242,600	255,600	262,900	273,500	239,800	232,900	248,000	245,200	244,700	242,300	227,800	207,100	189,200
6	June	195,300	206,200	202,800	191,550	200,700	223,840	225,900	248,000	248,100	258,600	219,600	221,300	237,000	235,600	235,200	226,100	212,600	195,000	174,300
7	July	203,900	209,800	208,950	196,500	205,000	229,400	212,500	240,200	243,500	256,600	211,400	213,700	231,100	237,900	231,600	226,400	209,900	191,900	175,100
8	August	200,100	206,500	207,800	199,350	198,800	226,900	241,300	245,000	257,000	250,500	227,300	220,600	232,500	237,900	243,400	235,600	216,500	189,500	175,500
9	September	211,600	217,850	208,950	209,100	219,500	226,300	241,131	270,000	280,200	269,400	234,500	233,800	254,600	257,100	259,000	248,500	223,800	202,300	147,200*
10	October	210,350	208,000	210,300	212,800	226,500	242,700	241,419	270,000	267,500	257,700	224,600	243,700	252,000	257,600	261,400	246,900	226,000	187,800 [19]	177,900
11	November	221,250	221,800	209,000	210,500	225,000 [21]	244,200	267,600	262,400	302,000 [17]	243,900	226,000	239,600	256,600	258,000	252,800	240,800	220,500	203,200	177,300
12	December	206,600	209,400	205,700	198,500	216,900	229,000	255,100	258,100	257,700	240,600	215,600	216,600	240,800	246,200	242,300	234,500	211,400	195,700	172,200
13	Year Average	209,100	212,900	211,600	205,500	212,700	233,200	243.200	259,400	264,500	259,000	233,900	227,900	245,400	249,800	249,700	241,900	225,700	202,000	181,300

See also

• List of Metrobus routes (Miami-Dade County)
• Transportation in South Florida

References

1. "Transit Ridership Report Third Quarter 2024" (PDF). American Public Transportation Association. November 20, 2024. Retrieved November 23, 2024.
2. "Transit Ridership Report Fourth Quarter 2023" (PDF). American Public Transportation Association. March 4, 2024. Retrieved September 5, 2024.
3. "Miamidade Bus Route Adjustments Designed To Save 18 Million". MiamiToday .
4. "Ridership Technical Report (June 2016)" (PDF). Miami-Dade County. Retrieved August 16, 2016.
5. Alfonso Chardy (August 1, 2016). "Two new technologies are coming to Miami-Dade's transportation system". Miami Herald . Retrieved August 18, 2016.
6. "Metrobus gets better, but not yet perfect". Miami Herald. November 9, 2016. Retrieved August 18, 2016.
7. Eric Morath (April 6, 2016). "Low Gas Prices Drove Down Transit Use, So Why Can't You Find a Seat on the Train?". The Wall Street Journal . Retrieved August 18, 2016.
8. Carrigan, Aileen; Wallerce, Julia; Kodransky, Michael (September 2019). "Getting to BRT: An Implementation Guide for U.S. Cities" (PDF). Institute for Transportation and Development Policy . Retrieved April 26, 2020.
9. "Driver Charged In Deadly SW Dade Hit & Run Accident". CBS Miami. April 13, 2012. Retrieved January 30, 2023.
10. Robertson, Linda (March 4, 2018). "When is a bus shelter not a bus shelter? Ask riders who burn their butts and get wet". Miami Herald. Retrieved March 2, 2019.
11. Scicchitano, paul (February 6, 2019). "Miami-Dade Bus Crash: 14 Injured, 2 Seriously". Patch.com. Retrieved January 30, 2023.
12. "Miami-Dade County breaks ground on the all-new South Corridor TransitWay and Rapid Transit Project". www.miamidade.gov. 4 June 2021. Retrieved 4 February 2022.
13. "Smart Plan - South Dade Transitway Corridor". www.miamidade.gov. Retrieved 2022-08-17.
14. "South Dade bus rapid transit coming 'sometime' in 2025". Miami Today. 2024-06-04. Retrieved 2024-12-03.
15. "Deadline electric bus deal fuels new South Dade rapid transit". Miami Today. 2023-01-24. Retrieved 2023-04-10.
16. Susan Danseyar (July 26, 2016). "Miami-Dade gets funds for first electric buses". Miami Today. Retrieved August 20, 2016.
17. "Ridership Technical Report (November 2007)" (PDF). Miami-Dade County. Retrieved August 20, 2016.
18. "Ridership Technical Report (August 2016)" (PDF). Miami-Dade County. Retrieved December 10, 2016.
19. "Ridership Technical Report (October 2016)" (PDF). Miami-Dade County. January 2017. Retrieved January 26, 2017.
20. "Ridership Technical Report (June 2017)" (PDF). Miami-Dade County. Retrieved August 24, 2017.
21. "Ridership Technical Report (November 2003)" (PDF). Miami-Dade County. Retrieved November 18, 2016.

External links

• Media related to Metrobus (Miami-Dade County) at Wikimedia Commons
• Official website
• Metrobus System Map