Miami Intermodal Center at Miami International Airport

[cirdan]

It was even worse before as far as confusing naming goes. Originally the station at the Airport was also named MiamiCentral, before there was a downtown Miami Central. Fortunately the name was changed, but still is a bit confusing for the uninitiated. Might have been better to call the station at the Airport, Miami International Airport station and be done with it.

still, one wonders how anybody could ever come up with the idea of calling an airport station so far from anything downtown, central ...???

 

[blueman271]

still, one wonders how anybody could ever come up with the idea of calling an airport station so far from anything downtown, central ...???

The idea was that it was a central place to board all forms of transit, long distance, regional, and local not that it was centrally located geographically.

 

[cocojacoby]

The idea was that it was a central place to board all forms of transit, long distance, regional, and local not that it was centrally located geographically.

How about "Miami International Airport Intermodal Terminal" or "MIA Intermodal" for short?

 

[jis]

How about "Miami International Airport Intermodal Terminal" or "MIA Intermodal" for short?

It is called “MIC at the Airport”. Everybody is used to it. No need to change that.

 

[bonzoesc]

still, one wonders how anybody could ever come up with the idea of calling an airport station so far from anything downtown, central ...???

I’d argue that it is pretty central, considering the vast population in Miami-Dads that lives west of the passenger part of the airport, but I don’t ever remember seeing it as anything but the MIC.

 

[jis]

I’d argue that it is pretty central, considering the vast population in Miami-Dads that lives west of the passenger part of the airport, but I don’t ever remember seeing it as anything but the MIC.

It changed to MIC within weeks of Brightline tagging its station as Miami Central. The thing is, the original use of Miami Central for the Airport station pre-dated the planning of the Brightline station, or at least any hint of what it will be named. There was a period of uncertainty about that which led to the short confusing period.

 

[Michigan Mom]

The article comment by Bill Hutchinson seems particularly knowledgeable.