It reached a high during the real estate bubble of the 2000s, then declined during the bad economy amid service cuts during the Great Recession, before rising again in the 2010s.

From 2015 into 2016, bus ridership fell sharply, down to a low of 195,000 daily in June 2016,[4] amid the lowest gas prices in over a decade, despite a locally strong economy and steady population gain.

This during a time when much effort was going into enhancements, such as an air-conditioned bus shelter, mobile ticketing, and new rolling stock, including electric buses.

[5] Part of the problem is that buses, unlike other transit alternatives, are not exempt from the increasing traffic present.

The final 6.5-mile (10.5 km) segment of the Busway extension to SW 344th Street in Florida City opened on Sunday, December 16, 2007.

Express buses on the exclusive lanes shuttle passengers to and from Dadeland South Station (see Metrorail) in about an hour or less.

Both full-size and articulated buses operate on the Busway and in adjacent neighborhoods, entering the exclusive lanes at major intersections.

Local and limited-stop service is offered between Florida City and Dadeland South Metrorail Station.

Surprisingly, even the intersections on which the Busway runs as far as two blocks west of US 1 suffer the same problem, with car drivers not seeing or flatly ignoring the red lights at SW 184th and 186th Streets.

However, the crash caused delays to several Metrobus routes as portions of both SW 184th Street and the Busway were shut down for an extended period of time.

[11] The Miami-Dade Department of Transportation and Public Works broke ground on the South Dade TransitWay gold standard bus rapid transit line on June 4, 2021.

It will be the first all-electric bus maintenance facility in Miami-Dade County and it will be located next to the Homestead Air Reserve Base.

Ridership has been falling since 2014 amid widespread rider complaints, an aging fleet, and sharply declining gas prices beginning in late 2014.

By 2016, 70% of the bus fleet was considered beyond its expected useful life, as the county was in the process of buying 30 electric buses with an option for 20 more.

Very poor numbers in October 2016 across the entire system were partially blamed on one day of closures for Hurricane Matthew,[19] which passed close to South Florida.