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MCO Board approves $1.1 billions expansion
http://www.orlandosentinel.com/busin...,4042699.story
Orlando Airport board has been approves today for airport expansion. Let the speculation begin. |
^I would say this seals the deal. Great news for my former State.
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AAF confirms ownership of recently purchased land in DT West Palm Beach. An AAF station and TOD will be built there:
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Will all the building to be demolished?
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I'm I looking at that right seeing a single track for the FEC line?
Hows that gonna work with AAF AND TriRail? |
Since the AAF project hasn't yet begun construction, they're going to add another track and create grade separation for much of the line. Right now, most of the FEC line is a single track.
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Double-track: yes.
Grade separation: no. The only exception is in downtown Miami, where several blocks of the rail line will be elevated to form a terminal station. |
Tri-rail runs on the CSX track further west. There's talk of extending it onto the FEC line, but that hasn't gotten anywhere lately that I'm aware of.
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was there new news?
they picked a site for Fort Lauderdale...... |
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AAF announced their plan for the new Ft Lauderdale station and associated development. http://www.sun-sentinel.com/fl-all-a...,2083396.story http://www.businesswire.com/news/hom...ation-Location http://www.palmbeachpost.com/news/bu...station/nb2Wj/ http://media.cmgdigital.com/shared/l...stationmap.jpg Quote:
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Also, Tampa isn't happy....
The cover of this weeks TBJ says "On Track to be Left Behind" with another called "All Aboard or Out of the Loop". They dragged Hussein Cumber of AAF over to town to give more details, though he said he had no information on any future plans in any location. Tampa Bay Business Journal: http://www.bizjournals.com/tampabay/....html?page=all http://www.bizjournals.com/tampabay/....html?page=all |
Thanks for the updates Lakelander, very interesting.
I hope AAF does in fact happen. Will be awesome for the state of FL if it does. |
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There is absolutely a market for this. |
Rick Scott screwed Tampa so hard.
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Additionally, FEC's AAF will be privately financed, I wish I could say the same for the ex-HSR proposal from Tampa. Tampa should look at establishing fast mass transit lines before expecting faster intercity trains than the existing Amtrak service. |
The ill-fated HSR project between Tampa and Orlando was supposed to funded and operated with private dollars for the first 30 years. I believe it would have failed as proposed but I still would have taken the free infrastructure. There was no reason, that infrastructure could not have been used by conventional commuter rail or as a new Central Florida freight corridor. However, I also agree that the Bay area needs to get its transit act together. There's a lot of potential there if the politicians stop tripping over their own two feet.
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We must be talking about two different HSR proposals. The one that Scott killed wasn't using state or local dollars. The only thing we did was send the federal money to other states for their rail projects. So we failed if the goal was to save "tax dollars."
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