Dadeland South station is a transfer station on the

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system in the

Dadeland Dadeland is a commercial district and urban neighborhood similar to an edge city, amid the sprawling metropolitan Miami suburbs of Kendall, Glenvar Heights, and Pinecrest, in the U.S. state of Florida, at the end of the Metrorail line. Its ...

district of

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. It is the southern terminus of the Metrorail system and the northern terminus of the South Dade TransitWay (a BRT corridor). It is the southernmost passenger rail station in the Continental United States. This station is located near the intersection of Dadeland Boulevard and Datran Boulevard, adjacent to South Dixie Highway (

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), three blocks southwest of Kendall Drive and

Dadeland Mall Dadeland Mall is a large enclosed shopping mall located in Kendall, Florida, in the Dadeland district. The mall, originally developed by the Joseph Meyerhoff Company of Baltimore, opened October 1, 1962 as a , open-air complex of 60 stores and ...

, and just east of the US 1– Palmetto Expressway (SR 826) junction. It opened to service May 20, 1984. The station serves Downtown Dadeland as well as local shopping centers

and Town Center One.

Station layout

The station has two tracks served by an

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References

External links

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MDT – Metrorail Stations

Station from Dadeland Boulevard from Google Map Street View
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