{"id":207626,"date":"2026-03-26T23:46:15","date_gmt":"2026-03-26T23:46:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/207626\/"},"modified":"2026-03-26T23:46:15","modified_gmt":"2026-03-26T23:46:15","slug":"miami-dade-transportation-officials-are-considering-building-a-non-stop-train-from-the-airport-to-port-miami","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/207626\/","title":{"rendered":"Miami-Dade transportation officials are considering building a non-stop train from the airport to Port Miami"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Miami-Dade County Public Works staff is reviewing recommendations for non-stop train service connecting Miami International Airport and Port Miami, a spokesperson for the Miami-Dade Transportation Planning Organization confirmed.<\/p>\n<p>Transportation officials believe the rail line would ease traffic around the world&#8217;s busiest cruise ship terminal, according to a MDTPO 2050 Master Plan study published four months ago.<\/p>\n<p>The project comes with a significant price tag, estimated to cost $600 million to $800 million for capital expenses and between $9 million and $15 million annually to operate, the TPO research noted.<\/p>\n<p>While the port currently has a freight train bridge, passenger rail would require one of two new alternatives:<\/p>\n<p>Option 1: A 9-mile extension of the MetroMover people mover track, which could utilize the existing port bridge or the Miami River bridge. However, MetroMover cars have a capacity of no more than 50 people.Option 2: The second, higher-capacity option expands Metrorail, requiring a 10-mile track extension and a new bridge built over the Intracoastal Waterway.<\/p>\n<p class=\"content__tags__label\">In:<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Miami-Dade County Public Works staff is reviewing recommendations for non-stop train service connecting Miami International Airport and Port&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":207627,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[14183,123,125,1063,124,1064,3212],"class_list":["post-207626","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-miami","tag-cruise-ship","tag-miami","tag-miami-headlines","tag-miami-international-airport","tag-miami-news","tag-miami-dade","tag-transportation-security-administration"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/207626","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=207626"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/207626\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/207627"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=207626"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=207626"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=207626"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}