South Dade Transit Operations Center

Electrification of Miami-Dade County’s Metrobus fleet is advancing the County’s climate action strategy, which is focusing on ways to reduce emissions and ultimately building a resilient and sustainable community and as part of the strategy, DTPW is expanding its fleet of electric buses to include 100 brand new 60-ft articulated battery-electric-buses. 

DTPW’s existing bus maintenance facilities are unable to meet the needs for energization, service, storage, operations and maintenance of the oncoming articulated (60-ft) battery-electric-bus fleet, coupled with the continued population growth in the South Miami-Dade area, DTPW has identified the need to build a new facility, South Dade Transit Operations Center (SDTOC), to energize, store, service, maintain and operate a bus fleet to service the County from Homestead and Florida City to Dadeland.

Following an extensive selection process, which involved input from stakeholders and the community to narrow down the 10 potential sites identified to the best option, a 20-acre site located at SW 127 Avenue and Biscayne Drive in South Dade was chosen. After two years of planning and coordination, the Board of County Commissioners approved this month the contract to build the most modern, state-of-the-art, and efficient bus operations facility in the public transportation industry, the South Dade Transit Operations Center.  

The Transit Operations Center is an innovative transit facility that will house and maintain a new fleet of 100 brand-new 60-foot articulated zero-emissions buses which will allow DTPW to better serve the transit needs of the fastest-growing area of the county and bring over 270 jobs to South Dade.

This new facility will be built on a 20-acre site in South Dade. It will include green energy features such as solar power and a water reclaim system for the bus wash, Also, it will considerably improve efficiency for bus routes which will employ Bus Rapid Transit (BRT) service on the TransitWay Corridor of the SMART Program. 

New Flyer, an industry leader, has already delivered the first vehicle out of the 100 new zero-emissions articulated rapid transit buses to DTPW and construction of the SDTOC is expected to start soon. This project exemplifies how DTPW can work to be thoughtful, innovative, and streamlined to deliver results that will benefit the community and provide a facility that our DTPW employees, including hundreds of bus operators, will be proud to call their workplace home. 

Construction of the facility is underway. The project is scheduled to be completed in Summer 2026, with a portion opening as soon as Summer 2025.

For general project information, please contact [email protected].