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From: friedman@uiucdcs.UUCP
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Subject: Miami subway (update) - (nf)
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Date: Tue, 14-Aug-84 16:56:00 EDT
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> Miami, Florida:  Metro Transit Agency.  This newest of heavy rail systems
> opened May 21, 1984.  It serves a metropolitan area of 1.4 million.  It is
> included in this list, although I don't think it has any underground portion.
> The 14.8 southern route is the one now in service; a 19.8 mile northern
> route is to open in late 1984 or early 1985.  Budd built the 136 cars.
> Projected ridership is 200,000 daily; actual ridership of the southern route
> was 38,473 in the first full week of service.

An update to the above entry in my list of subway systems:  The Miami rail
system does not, in fact, have any underground portion, so it is definitely
not a subway by any (usual) definition.  It is mostly on elevated track.
It is, of course, a heavy rail system, sharing most of the attributes of a
subway system except the obvious one.