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Tri-Rail is Miami's commuter rail that runs north-south from Miami's suburbs in West Palm Beach to Miami International Airport. A turning point came for development in the Everglades at the proposal in the late 1960s for an expanded airport after Miami International Airport outgrew its capacities the new jetport was planned to be larger than O'Hare Dulles JFK and LAX airports combined,[citation needed] and the chosen location was 6 miles (9.7 km) north of Everglades National Park the first sentence of the U.S Department of Interior study of the environmental impact of the jetport read "Development of the proposed jetport and its attendant facilities . will inexorably destroy the south Florida ecosystem and thus the Everglades National Park" When studies indicated the proposed jetport would create 4,000,000 US gallons (15,000,000 L) of raw sewage a day and 10,000 short tons (9,100 t) of jet engine pollutants a year the project met staunch opposition the New York Times called it a "blueprint for disaster" and Wisconsin senator Gaylord Nelson wrote to President Richard Nixon voicing his opposition: "It is a test of whether or not we are really committed in this country to protecting our environment." Governor Claude Kirk withdrew his support for the project and Marjory Stoneman Douglas was persuaded at 79 years old to go on tour to give hundreds of speeches against it Nixon instead established Big Cypress National Preserve announcing it in the Special Message to the Congress Outlining the 1972 Environmental Program. The Sunshine Skyway Bridge over Tampa Bay is a part of Florida's interstate system, The former Miami Herald headquarters in Downtown Miami the Miami Herald is the largest newspaper in South Florida. Lake Worth Tri-Rail Miami's heavy-rail rapid transit system Metrorail is an elevated system comprising two lines and 23 stations on a 24.4-mile (39.3 km)-long line Metrorail connects the urban western suburbs of Hialeah Medley and inner-city Miami with suburban the Roads Coconut Grove Coral Gables South Miami and urban Kendall via the central business districts of Miami International Airport the Civic Center and Downtown a free elevated people mover Metromover operates 21 stations on three different lines in greater Downtown Miami with a station at roughly every two blocks of Downtown and Brickell Several expansion projects are being funded by a transit development sales tax surcharge throughout Miami-Dade County, Catholic 1 Miami Miami-Dade 362,470 399,457 470,914 +17.89% 8 See also, 5 Miami Children's Hospital 3,500 10 West Palm Beach Palm Beach 82,103 99,919 111,398 +11.49% All streets and avenues in Miami-Dade County follow the Miami grid with a few exceptions most notably in Coral Gables Hialeah Coconut Grove and Miami Beach One neighborhood the Roads is named as such because its streets run off the Miami grid at a 45-degree angle and therefore are all named roads. Rock Opa-locka North Palm Beach County General Aviation Airport Palm Beach. . Collins Bridge the first bridge to connect Miami to Miami Beach, FIU MUN also hosts an annual high school conference: Florida International Model United Nations (FIMUN) the conference traditionally hosts over 400 high school students from 20 or more high schools from Miami-Dade Broward and Palm Beach Counties.

Miami International Airport covers 1,335 hectares (3,300 acres) and has four runways:! 6 References Government Center is one of the main stations for Metrorail and Metromover. ! The Miami skyline Following the 1959 Cuban revolution that unseated Fulgencio Batista and brought Fidel Castro to power most Cubans who were living in Miami returned to Cuba Soon after however many middle class and upper class Cubans moved to Florida en masse with few possessions Some Miamians were upset about this especially the African Americans who believed that the Cuban workers were taking their jobs.[citation needed] in addition the school systems struggled to educate the thousands of Spanish-speaking Cuban children Many Miamians fearing that the Cold War would become World War III left the city while others started building bomb shelters and stocking up on food and bottled water Many of Miami's Cuban refugees realized for the first time that it would be a long time before they would get back to Cuba in 1965 alone 100,000 Cubans packed into the twice daily "freedom flights" from Havana to Miami Most of the exiles settled into the Riverside neighborhood which began to take on the new name of "Little Havana" This area emerged as a predominantly Spanish-speaking community and Spanish speakers elsewhere in the city could conduct most of their daily business in their native tongue By the end of the 1960s more than four hundred thousand Cuban refugees were living in Dade County. Map of the Everglades in 1856: Military action during the Seminole Wars improved understanding of the features of the Everglades; . Talmudic University (private) Iberia also established a Miami hub in 1992 positioning a fleet of DC-9 aircraft at MIA to serve destinations in Central America and the Caribbean the hub took advantage of rights granted under the 1991 bilateral aviation agreement between the United States and Spain However the September 11 2001 attacks made it necessary for many aliens to obtain a visa in order to transit the United States and as a result United Airlines and Iberia closed their hubs in 2004 Miami remains the most important hub between Europe and Latin America and today more European carriers serve MIA than any other airport in the United States except John F Kennedy International Airport in New York.[citation needed]; The Rosenstiel School of Marine and Atmospheric Science founded by F.G Walton Smith is the University of Miami's graduate school of marine and atmospheric science Dr Roni Avissar is the Dean of the Rosenstiel School Located on a 16-acre (65,000-square-metre) campus on Virginia Key in Miami it is the only tropical applied and basic marine and atmospheric research institute of its kind in the continental United States the Rosenstiel School conducts a broad range of research on local regional national and global levels More than 100 Ph.D faculty members 150 graduate students and a research support and administrative staff of 250 comprise the academic community.