Government Center (MDT station)

Infobox Station
name=Government Center
type=Metrorail metro station
Metromover people mover station

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image_caption=Government Center, as seen the Cultural Plaza.
address=Metrorail:
101 Northwest First Street,
Miami, Florida 33128
Metromover:
138 Northwest Third Street,
Miami, Florida 33128
coordinates=coord|25|46|33|N|80|11|45|W|type:railwaystation_region:US-FL|display=inline,title
line=rail color box| system=MDM| line=Green rail color box| system=MIAMI| line=Downtown rail color box| system=MIAMI| line=Omni rail color box| system=MIAMI| line=Brickell
other=
platform=Island (Metrorail)
Side (Metromover)
parking=Privately-owned spaces
bicycle=
passengers=
pass_year=
pass_percent=
opened=May 20, 1984 (Metrorail)
April 17, 1986 (Metromover)
rebuilt=
ADA=Yes
code=GVT
owned=Miami-Dade County
zone=rail color box| system=MIAMI| line=Downtown
services=s-start

Government Center Station is a Metrorail and Metromover changeover station in the Government Center district of Downtown Miami, Florida.

The station is located near the intersection of Northwest First Street and First Avenue, at the Stephen P. Clark Government Center Building. It opened to service May 20, 1984. It is the hub of most travel via Miami-Dade Transit, servicing not only Metrorail and Metromover, but ten Metrobus routes and Paratransit.

Background

Construction on Government Center began in June 1982. The station was primarily designed by the Cambridge Seven Associates in collaboration with Edward D. Stone. The station was built by the Frank J. Rooney Construction Company.

An unused, partially-completed ghost platform for a future East-West Metrorail line is adjacent to the west side of the mezzanine level below the current Metrorail station and is easily visible to passengers transferring from Metromover to Metrorail. This platform was part of the original design concept which interfaced with the atrium of the Miami-Dade County Administration Building, and the people mover station.

Places of interest

*Downtown Miami
*Miami Art Museum
*Historical Museum of Southern Florida
*Miami-Dade Public Library (Central Branch)
*Miami-Dade County Courthouse
*Downtown Bus Terminal
*State of Florida Appeals Court
*Stephen P. Clark Government Center
*Miami-Dade County Bar Association
*Courthouse Center Building
*Concorde Building
*Museum Tower
*Claude C. Pepper Federal Building
*Court House Center
*U.S. Courthouse
*Miami Art Museum
*Miami Plaza
*New World School of the Arts

Connecting Metrobus Routes

ee also

* [http://www.miamidade.gov/transit/rail_gvt.asp MDT - Government Center Metrorail Station]
* [http://www.miamidade.gov/transit/mover_governmentcenter.asp MDT - Government Center Metromover Station]

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