hey big news MAPS are new WOW
all stations are updated
orlando station is complete and looks good
ANY body now how to post Wiki or google maps pics???

Trains (with no passengers yet) set to start running into Miami this week:

https://www.bizjournals.com/southflo...-to-miami.html

Test trains @ downtown Miami station
 

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Wow! Finally! Brightline went into downtown Miami station. It's just perfect! :tup:

Phase II of Miami Central (the one that includes 2 x 991 ft towers) is beginning the approval process.

Essentially 800k of office, 750 hotel units, and 50k of retail. Square footage that is.

Never thought I’d say this, but...

Miami or Tokyo?

Actually, it's Miami, not Tokyo.

great photo the building behind is 3 Miami , headquarters of AAF brightline
also my computer browser is showing ads for Grand Opening Open House
for AAF brightline

holy crap go to web site quick and get cheap tickets very fast

Brightline Service To downtown Miami Begins May 19
 

By TNM Staff on May 11, 2018

Brightline tickets to Miami are on sale this morning through their website.
The official service launch will be May 19.

As of this morning, departures from Fort Lauderdale to Miami were are priced at $10 for Smart Service and $15 for Select Service. Introductory fares of $3 and $5 are also being offered.

Departures from West Palm Beach to Miami was also available, at a cost of $15 for Smart Service and $25 for Select Service.

In the Fall, the 50,000-square-foot CentralFare food hall will open at MiamiCentral with various eateries, a spokesperson told the Herald. Elsewhere in the project, Einstein’s Bros. Bagels will open this summer, with Parliament cafe and Joe & The Juice in spring and Starbucks in early 2019.

https://www.thenextmiami.com/brightl...o-miami-today/

Central Fare food hall under construction :

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Station view from the U/C Paramount Miami World Center Tower:

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http://www.miamiherald.com/latest-ne...%20TRAIN%20CTJ
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Video of BrightLine & Metrorail trains departing their stations
 

Hi Bobdreamz, thank you so much for sharing this. I really appreciate that. Hopefully they will extended to Orlando International Airport station sometime in late 2020 or early 2021 during at that time.

did anybody get cheap tickets?

station construction on center right side
you can also see metro mover stations
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Brightline high-speed passenger train gets Orange County OK to lay tracks in wetlands
 

June 19, 2018

After winning approval Tuesday from Orange County commissioners, the company planning a high-speed passenger train linking Orlando with Miami expects to start laying rail in Central Florida later this year, a project executive said.

The 235-mile rail service includes a 22-mile stretch through Orange County that runs parallel to State Road 528 beginning at the St. Johns River and running to Orlando International Airport, mostly through protected wetlands.

The plan to ease the direct impact on 106 acres of wetlands required a permit approved by commissioners.

Michael Cegelis, executive vice president of rail infrastructure at Brightline Trains, said the proposed rail route from the airport terminal isn’t the shortest or most direct through the county to the east coast but it is “the path of least disruption.”

The company could have gone south from the airport, which would have been a shorter route to the coast.

“But that would have been all virgin territory,” Cegelis said.

The company chose to run through wetlands along the toll-road bed, which accommodates cars and trucks.

“To make public transportation work, there are times when you have [to accept] impacts,” Orange county Mayor Teresa Jacobs said, crediting the effort to minimize effects on wetlands. “They could have carved a whole new path and created a great deal more impact.”

Commissioner Emily Bonilla, who was elected on a conservation platform, concurred.

“Of all the options, this is the best,” she said.

There are no scheduled stops on the segment between Orlando and West Palm.

http://www.orlandosentinel.com/news/...619-story.html

Brightline makes official bid for Orlando-to-Tampa extension along I-4 corridor
https://www.tcpalm.com/story/news/lo...mpa/726921002/

It looks like the Brightline machine keeps rolling along, with the extension to Tampa queued up for construction after the extension to Orlando is done in 2021. I hope that Jacksonville will also happen eventually, but it looks like things may have cooled on that front. It sounds like they are talking about jumping on other corridors in the country with equal potential to the Miami-Orlando-Tampa corridor. From the article:

Absolutely! They will extended to Jacksonville sometime in near the future. It will happen.

Yeah, I don't see of anything being cooled on the Jax segment. The track already exists and they own it. This process of extending to Tampa requires more time and steps like this, that aren't required when existing infrastructure is in place. Personally, I wouldn't be surprised to see them both operational around the same time.

I would like to see Savannah pushed in addition to Jacksonville.

No, they won't. Only in Florida, not Georgia.