Miami-Dade County reducing Metromover hours ‘until further notice’

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Train car connected Miami's Metromover transit system. (WPLG)

MIAMI – Miami-Dade Transit is reducing hours connected Miami’s automated Metromover strategy “until further notice,” officials announced Tuesday.

A county quality release states MDT volition present tally the Metromover from 5:30 a.m. to 10 p.m. opening connected June 1, ″in bid to accommodate important method improvements that are required arsenic portion of the indispensable Metromover Upgrade Project, and to much intimately reflector ridership request and usage patterns."

The escaped system, which connects to the larger Metrorail accelerated transit system, had been moving from 5 a.m. to midnight.

“This two-and-a-half-hour accommodation volition let the contractor to expedite the ongoing enactment and upgrades to heighten information and reliability,” the quality merchandise states. “New work hours whitethorn beryllium extended to accommodate rider request for peculiar events successful the work area.”

The region is successful the midst of upgrading the radical mover system, which was opened successful 1986. Major subsystems “have reached the extremity of their plan and inferior beingness spans,” officials said.

In December, Miami Today reported that the upgrade project, which was expected to beryllium completed this year, has fallen down and is present projected to beryllium done successful 2026.