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. City of Miami Cemetery Public transportation in Miami is operated by Miami-Dade Transit and SFRTA and includes commuter rail (Tri-Rail) heavy-rail rapid transit (Metrorail) an elevated people mover (Metromover) and buses (Metrobus) Miami has Florida's highest transit ridership as about 17% of Miamians use transit on a daily basis the average Miami public transit commute on weekdays is 90 minutes while 39% of public transit riders commute for more than 2 hours a day the average wait time at a public transit stop or station is 18 minutes while 37% of riders wait for more than 20 minutes on average every day the average single trip distance with public transit is 7.46 mi (12 km) while 38% travel more than 8.08 mi (13 km) in each direction. Wet season 34.5 inches (88 cm) 53.5 inches (136 cm) 23.4 inches (59 cm), Dade County Courthouse completed in 1926. Miami experienced a very rapid growth up to World War II in 1900 1,681 people lived in Miami Florida; in 1910 there were 5,471 people; and in 1920 there were 29,549 people as thousands of people moved to the area in the early 20th century the need for more land quickly became apparent Until then the Florida Everglades only extended to three miles (5 km) west of Biscayne Bay Beginning in 1906 canals were made to remove some of the water from those lands Miami Beach was developed in 1913 when a two-mile (3 km) wooden bridge built by John Collins was completed During the early 1920s the authorities of Miami allowed gambling and were very lax in regulating prohibition so thousands of people migrated from the northern United States to the Miami region This caused the Florida land boom of the 1920s when many high-rise buildings were built Some early developments were razed after their initial construction to make way for larger buildings the population of Miami doubled from 1920 to 1923 the nearby areas of Lemon City Coconut Grove and Allapattah were annexed in the fall of 1925 creating the Greater Miami area, Nature Coast Contents Downtown Miami is the historic heart of Miami and along with Coconut Grove is the oldest settled area of Miami with early pioneer settlement dating to the early 19th century Urban development began in the 1890s with the construction of the Florida East Coast Railway by Standard Oil industrialist Henry Flagler down to Miami at the insistence of Julia Tuttle Flagler along with developers such as William Brickell and George E Merrick helped bring developer interest to the city with the construction of hotels resorts homes and the extension of Flagler's rail line Flagler Street originating in Downtown is a major east-west road in Miami named after the tycoon; the Julia Tuttle Causeway crossing Biscayne Bay just north of Downtown in Edgewater is named in honor of Tuttle. Toll Florida 878.svg State Road 878 (Snapper Creek Expressway) Miami is also a major fashion center home to models and some of the top modeling agencies in the world the city is host to many fashion shows and events including the annual Miami Fashion Week and the Mercedes-Benz Fashion Week Miami held in the Wynwood Art District.

Mining In 2009 there were 89,706 federal workers employed within the state Tens of thousands more employees work for contractors who have federal contracts including those with the military. From the 1930s through much of the 1960s Florida was essentially a one-party state dominated by white conservative Democrats who together with other Democrats of the "Solid South" exercised considerable control in Congress They have gained slightly less federal money from national programs than they have paid in taxes Since the 1970s conservative white voters in the state have largely shifted from the Democratic to the Republican Party Though the majority of registered voters in Florida are Democrats it continued to support Republican presidential candidates through 2004 except in 1976 and 1996 when the Democratic nominee was from "the South". Climate chart (explanation) After the Civil War a state agency called the Internal Improvement Fund (IIF) whose purpose was to improve Florida's roads canals and rail lines was discovered to be deeply in debt the IIF found a Pennsylvania real estate developer named Hamilton Disston interested in implementing plans to drain the land for agriculture Disston purchased 4,000,000 acres (16,000 km2) of land for $1 million in 1881 and he began constructing canals near St Cloud at first the canals seemed to work in lowering the water levels in the wetlands surrounding the rivers They were effective in lowering the groundwater but it became apparent that their capacity was insufficient for the wet season Although Disston's canals did not drain well his purchase primed the economy of Florida it made news and attracted tourists and land buyers Within four years property values doubled and the population increased significantly. 3% Gallery Fort Lauderdale Executive Airport FXE KFXE Broward The communities served are Aventura Bal Harbour Bay Harbor Islands Biscayne Park Cutler Bay Doral El Portal Florida City Golden Beach Hialeah Gardens Homestead Indian Creek Medley Miami Gardens Miami Lakes Miami Shores Miami Springs North Bay Village North Miami North Miami Beach Opa-locka Palmetto Bay Pinecrest South Miami Surfside Sweetwater Sunny Isles Beach Virginia Gardens and West Miami. Grade 11: 27,341 The largest metropolitan area in the state as well as the entire southeastern United States is the Miami metropolitan area with about 6.06 million people the Tampa Bay Area with over 3.02 million people is the second largest; the Orlando metropolitan area with over 2.44 million people is the third; and the Jacksonville metropolitan area with over 1.47 million people is fourth. .