The last northbound train out of MIA Monday through Friday is at 8:19 PM,
Saturday at 9:19 PM and Sunday at 7:19 PM. Someday, we may have
later trains but as of right now, this is it.
I took a ride from Fort Lauderdale to MIA on Thursday the 12th of January
and it was interesting. There was not as much double track as I had
expected. Of course the New River Bridge has a long way to go and they
do not seem to be moving as fast on this as I thought they would. In
addition there is still single track through Hollywood as the southbound
(west track) in Hollywood passenger station is removed for construction.
There is also only one track still in the 79th Street Station which is
Metrorail Transfer in the timetable.
It appears to me that it will be a while before the work south of Fort
Lauderdale Station has come to a finish. They are working but it all takes
time, my guess, at least another year.
Incidentally, I do not advise riding Tri-Rail this weekend (Jan. 14 & 15) as
they will be using a bus bridge between Golden Glades or Opa-Locka and Miami Airport station, I don't remember which north station was mentioned
in the notice.
They seem to have padded the schedules as we got stopped both ways
and yet we were on time at MIA southbound and at FTL northbound.
They finally got around to putting out a timetable booklet like they used to
dated June, 2005 but they also put out a new pocket timetable which is
dated January, 2006. There did not appear to be any changes in the train
service nor in the times at stations from June to January.
Will try to up-date north of Fort Lauderdale within a week or two, it has
been a while since I have gone up to West Palm.
Noel Weaver