Miami: Relief for Metrorail passengers not coming until 2018, despite larger budget

By Douglas Hanks, Miami Herald; November 6, 2017

The last-minute budget reprieve Metrorail won from Miami-Dade County in September hasn’t delivered the promised fixes, including shorter waits between trains and later operating hours. County administrators say they need a few months to adjust scheduling and cobble together enough spare parts of the extra trains needed to accommodate more frequent arrivals and longer hours.

“Since March, we’ve been working on this frequency,” Alice Bravo, the county’s transit director, said of the pared-down schedule implemented last spring to cut costs. “We have trains that have not been worked on since March. To have the extra hours … we have to get the trains up and running again.”

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