Mdta Metromover Extensions Survey and Analysis

During the month of August 1994, infonnation on weekday patrol) movements were collected at the Omni and Brickell Metromover Stations.Visual surveys of the Brickell Metromover Station by Ml)T A personnel showed no transfers between bus and mover.Data gathered at the Onmi Metromover Station included the mode of access to Metrobus and Metromover, the.amount of transferring between buses, and the actual number of hoardings on the Metromover.These activities were monitored from 6:00 a.m. to 7:00 p.m.For the two days surveyed (p.m. one day, a.m. the next day), a total of 1,455 passengers boarded_ . . . the Metromover in both directions (inbound and outbound) at the Omni Station.This represents approximately 71 percent of the total average weekday hoardings as reported by MDTA for the month of June 1994, the most recent counts available.Of the 1,455 Metromover hoardings, 40 percent walked up from an adjacent street, 18 percent walked from the Omni Mall, and the remaining 42 percent transferred from Metrobus routes directly serving the station or the stop adjacent on NE 15th Street.Table 1 presents the mode of access to the Omni Metromover by time of day.As can be seen from this table, a significant percentage of riders boarding the mover at the Omni Station were transferring from the Metro bus system.During this survey Omni bus access movements were also observed.Both transfers from bus and walk access were documented.Metromover-to-bus movements were not documented, although it can be assumed that many of those bus-to-mover transfers would return as mover-to-bus tnmsfers.Table 2 indicates that 1,394 transfers were•made between buses at the Onmi terminal during the three time periods.Assuming a similar number of transfers from mover-to-bus as was documented for bus-to-mover in Table 1 ( 612), then approximately 53 percent of the bus riders accessed the bus from another bus, 24 percent transferred from the Metromover, and 23 percent walked. DOWNTOWN MlAMI METROBUSJM:ETROMOVER PASSENGER SURVEYDuring. the month of Aug~st 1994, CUTR and MDTA staff conducted weekday surveys of Metrobus and Metromover riders travelling through the Brickell and Omni Station areas.Specifically, passengers onboard Brickell bus routes 8, 24, 48, and B, and onboard Omni bus routes 3, 16, 93X, C, K, M, S, and T were randomly surveyed for both inbound and outbound trips between the Central Business District (CBD) and the Omni and Brickell bus stations.