Summer Transit Challenge, Take 1

I pledged to participate in Transit Miami’s Summer Transit Challenge. I had planned on using public transportation to do several errands previously in the week, but the rain discouraged me. Finally, on Friday when I needed to go to the bank, and my first week of the challenge was almost up, I decided to Metro Move it.

The Metromover is a free people mover that is somehow run without a driver. I imagine it utilizes a combination of cameras and sensors to get this done. The mover consists of 3 different loops (routes): Brickell, Omni, and an Inner Downtown loop. I live in a location that makes this service very useful to me, and I am a BIG fan of this system. And an even bigger fan of its "freeness".

On this particular day, I rode from the Financial District station to Eighth Street station. The stops between those are Brickell & Tenth Street. The walk would have been only 6 blocks, but the Metromover helped me stay out of the sun. I did walk back from the bank. Take a ride with me, because (drum roll, please) you can see it all on this video below!

Introducing greenerMIAMI’s first ever video: greenerMIAMI, Transit Miami’s Summer Transit Challenge. During the ride there is no commentary. The camera was simple placed on the bench in the rear of the Mover to record the experience. Despite some negative comments that I made during the video, I would like to express again that I love the Metromover overall. I encourage anyone that hasn’t ridden it to try it out…it just might change the way you do things!

Hopefully the videos will improve considerably from here (we know we’ve got a lot of work to do)! Tell us what you liked and didn’t like about it, and what you’d like to see next.