●● Government Center
Three modes of transit operating simultaneously at Government Center station
General information
Location	101 NW 1st Street (Metrorail) 138 NW 3rd Street (Metromover) Miami, Florida
Coordinates	25°46′33″N80°11′45″W / 25.77583°N 80.19583°W /25.77583; -80.19583
Owned by	Miami-Dade County
Platforms	1island platform (Metrorail) 2side platforms (Metromover)
Tracks	2 (Metrorail) 2 (Metromover)
Connections	MiamiCentral Metrobus: 2, 3, 7, 9, 11, 21, 77, 95, 100, 203, 207, 208, 211, 400, 401, 836, 837 Broward County Transit: 109, 110 Miami Trolley: Coral Way
Construction
Structure type	Elevated
Platform levels	4
Accessible	Yes
Other information
Station code	GVT
History
Opened	May 20, 1984 (Metrorail)[1] April 17, 1986 (Metromover)
Passengers
2011	3.2 million[2] (Metrorail)  3%
Feb 2014	299,806[3] (Metrorail)
Feb 2014	210,134[3] (Metromover)
Services
Preceding station Miami-Dade Transit Following station Brickell towardDadeland South Green Line Historic Overtown/Lyric Theatre towardPalmetto Orange Line Historic Overtown/Lyric Theatre towardMiami Int'l Airport Third Street towardSchool Board Omni Loop Wilkie D. Ferguson Jr. One-way operation Third Street towardFinancial District Brickell Loop Miami Avenue One-way operation Inner Loop Wilkie D. Ferguson Jr. Next clockwise
Former services Preceding station Miami-Dade Transit Following station Brickell towardDadeland South Downtown Express Terminus
Location

Government Center station is anintermodal transit hub in theGovernment Center district ofDowntown Miami,Florida. It is operated byMiami-Dade Transit and serves as atransfer station for theMetrorail andMetromoverrapid transit systems and as abus station forMetrobus,Paratransit, andBroward County Transit buses.MiamiCentral is directly connected via a pedestrian bridge over NW 3rd Street. The station is located near the intersection of Northwest First Street and First Avenue, a part of theStephen P. Clark Government Center Building. It opened to service May 20, 1984, next to the site of a former FEC railway station which is nowMiamiCentral.

Development of thecivic center was reinvigorated during the 1970s and early 1980s during a Downtownbuilding boom. The boom spurred the development and construction of theStephen P. Clark Government Center,Metrorail,Metromover, and the Miami-Dade Cultural Plaza, which currently includesHistoryMiami and theMiami-Dade Public Library System Main Library.

Construction on the present-day Government Center station began in June1982. The station was primarily designed by theCambridge Seven Associates in collaboration withEdward D. Stone. The station was built by the Frank J. Rooney Construction Company. Metrorail service, betweenOvertown andKendall, following the precise route of the FEC, commenced service May 1984.

An unused, partially completed ghost platform for a future East-West Metrorail line is adjacent to the west side of themezzanine 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 theatrium of the Miami-Dade County Administration Building, and the people mover station.

Next to Government Center station is the former site of a railroad station developed in April 1896 as the southernterminus ofHenry Flagler'sFlorida East Coast Railway (FEC). The downtown passenger terminal was demolished by November 1963.^[4] The FEC still owns the old station site, which was occupied by parking lots until 2014. It is now MiamiCentral, anintermodal transit hub. It has been served byBrightlinehigher-speedinter-city trains since2018 andTri-Railcommuter trains since2024.

The second floor of the complex includes the main fare control for Metrorail and platforms for the Metromover loops, as well as the Metrofare Shops area. The third floor of the complex is a mezzanine for transfers between the two services. A ghost platform for a never-built east-west Metrorail line is located on this level. The fourth floor of the complex is the Metrorail platform. It is the highest transit platform of the Miami-Dade Transit system in height and can hold up to eight Metrorail cars.

• Downtown Miami
  • Neighborhoods:Arts & Entertainment District,Park West, andMiami Jewelry District
• Adrienne Arsht Center for the Performing Arts
• Kaseya Center
• Bayfront Park
• Bayside Marketplace
• The Congress Building
• Courthouse Center
• David W. Dyer Federal Building and United States Courthouse
• Flagler Street
• Freedom Tower
• Historical Museum of Southern Florida
• Miami Art Museum
• Miami Dade College (Wolfson Campus)
• Miami-Dade County Courthouse
• Miami Main Library
• Museum Park
• Museum Tower
• New World School of the Arts
• Olympia Theater
• Stephen P. Clark Government Center

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  A Metromover car waiting on the lower level of the Government Center station.
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  A Metrorail train is approaching the upper level of the Government Center station with the Dade County Courthouse in the background.
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  The Government CenterMetromover transfer station
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  A Metromover train is approaching Government Center station
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  Passengers exit a northbound Metrorail train duringrush hour
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  Platforms overlooking the contemporary US Courthouse building.
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  The ghost platform that is on the mezzanine level
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  A closer view of the ghost platform
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  A Metrorail sign in the plaza
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  View toward the southeast of the city center, with the FECpassenger trains and the Dade County Courthouse foreground, circa 1930s
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  Critical Mass Miami assembling at Government Center
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  Government Center with theDade County Courthouse in the background andHistoryMiami in the foreground on the right

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