How Hurricane Milton affects transit, garbage, other services in Miami, Fort Lauderdale

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Though the Miami metropolitan area — Miami-Dade, Broward and Palm Beach counties — doesn’t expect to get to get the full Milton, the hurricane will bring much of life in the region to a halt until Friday.

Schools

Miami-Dade County Public Schools: Closed Wednesday and Thursday.

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Broward County Public Schools: Closed Wednesday and Thursday.

Palm Beach County Public Schools: Closed Wednesday and Thursday.

Miami Country Day: Closed Wednesday and Thursday.

Ransom Everglades: Closed Wednesday and Thursday.

Gulliver: Closed Wednesday and Thursday.

Carrollton: Closed Wednesday and Thursday

Palmer Trinity: Closed Wednesday and Thursday.

County Offices

Miami-Dade: Non-essential county offices will be closed Wednesday and Thursday.

Broward: Closing at noon Wednesday and will reopen Friday at 6 a.m.

Courts

Miami-Dade: Courts and the Clerk’s and Comptroller’s Office are closed Wednesday and Thursday. The Clerk and Comptroller’s Office also will be closed Monday, Oct. 14, which is Indigenous Peoples Day and Columbus Day.

Broward: Courts and the Clerk’s office are closed Wednesday and Thursday.

Libraries

Miami-Dade: Library branches are closed Wednesday and Thursday.

Broward: Library branches closed at noon on Wednesday and be closed Thursday.

Garbage pickup

Miami-Dade: No waste or recycling collection. For regular Thursday garbage pickup, the next collection day will be Monday. Recycling customers who usually get a Thursday pickup, should have only blue recycling carts out by 7 a.m. Saturday.

Miami: Thursday pickup has been moved to Saturday.

Miami Beach: Pickup as scheduled.

Broward: Regular pickup.

Fort Lauderdale: The city used more trucks than usual to try to get all pickups done by 4 p.m. Wednesday. They ask that residents check the storm website for any changes in Thursday’s collection schedule .

Transportation

Miami-Dade: Metrobus, Metromover and Metrorail running as usual.

Miami Beach: The trolleys will stop running if there’s a forecast of 39 mph sustained winds closer than three hours away. The Freebee will stop running on Wednesday.

Hialeah: Freebee service suspended Wednesday and Thursday.

Broward: Broward County Transit is running. Pembroke Pines suspended transportation until 8 a.m. Friday. Tamarac has suspended its Community Shuttle services until Friday. Deerfield Beach has halted Community Shuttle service on Express I and II routes.

Tri-Rail: Not running Wednesday or Thursday, and “aiming to resume regular service on Friday, as long as it has been determined to be safe,” the South Florida Regional Transportation Authority posted Tuesday.

PortMiami: PortMiami is open. The PortMiami Tunnel is closed.

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Port Everglades: No waterside activity since 12:01 a.m. Tuesday.

Drawbridges: Locked in the down position since noon Tuesday.

Florida Department of Health

Miami-Dade offices: The offices were closed Tuesday and will remain so until further notice.

Broward offices: Closed at noon Wednesday and will remain closed Thursday. The reopening is scheduled for 8 a.m. Friday.

Florida Lottery Offices

The offices in Miami Lakes, Palm Springs, Orlando, Tampa, Gainesville, Fort Myers and Jacksonville are all closed until further notice.