i had no difficulty in accessing the Sun-Sentinel article. May be a case of the site limiting access to so many articles per month from one non-subscribed PC.

The article points out the potential of increased traffic delays at the FEC grade crossings. Going from a modest freight traffic level to 2 passenger trains an hour (one each way) could become a contentious issue since the FEC is not going to pay for grade separation projects. The FEC may pay for improving the grade crossing with new gates, vehicle detection sensors, but the main responsibility for the grade crossing rests with the state DOT or local governments.

As for the station, the FEC will release renderings when they are ready to do so. What will be confusing is that West Palm Beach, Fort Lauderdale, and Miami will each have 2 separate trains stations: a Tri-Rail & Amtrak station and a FEC Miami-Orlando Airport corridor station. The Miami stations will be connected by Miami Metrorail.

The presence of two train stations in Fort Lauderdale, WPB, and in Orlando with Sun-Rail & Amtrak closer to downtown and the FEC at the airport may well push those cities along towards streetcar and light rail transit projects.

yeah ft lauderdale is building THE WAVE streetcar
that will put alot of people/seats onto the ALL ABOAD train

palm beach i think will use trolly type bus system

tri rail will not compete with this , it will complement it
after 10 years of improvments tri-rail works very good
plus tri-rail will now go to MIA airport

I'm a little confused - I thought the FEC tracks actually went through the Downtowns, and that the Amtrak line is out by I-95. Do I have it backwards?

Orlando is the one where Amtrak and Sunrail go downtown, and FEC will go to airport.

Yeah, I know that re: Orlando, Jasonhouse. I'm talking about West Palm, Ft. Lauderdale & Miami.

fec - all aboad miami - goes to a new/furture downtown miami station
near the miami heat arena , it does goes thru the eastern part
of florida/ft lauderdale/palm beach

tri rail/amtrak goes down I95 then to the new MIA airport/metro station.

tri rail works very good, before it was single track but is now double track.
the new MIA airport station is going to do big business when done.

I did write a bit of run on sentence. The "in Orlando with Sun-Rail & Amtrak closer to downtown and the FEC at the airport" part was referring solely to the situation in Orlando.

The stations in WPB would likely be not all that far apart as the WPB Tri-Rail station is not far south of where Florida is planning to build a cross-over from the FEC to the CSX/Tri-Rail tracks.

Florida DOT set aside $118 million for a Jacksonville to Miami (Airport / Tri-Rail) corridor service. What happens to the plans for stations at Cocoa, Melbourne, Vero Beach, Fort Pierce, Stuart on the FEC tracks, but would be on the FEC Miami to Orlando corridor? Do the towns go ahead and build the stations, but ask the FEC to have some of their Miami (downtown) to Orlando trains stop at the towns? Going to be interesting to see how it sorts out.

Thanks, eleven=11. My memory isn't failing me! :cool:

Got it! Thanks.

The money FDOT set aside is for an Amtrak line on the FEC between Miami and Jacksonville. All Aboard Florida would be a complement to that service. If All Aboard Florida is successful between Miami and Orlando, FEC plans to extend the service to Jacksonville. In that case, I wouldn't be surprised to see some of those cities, such as St. Augustine, Daytona and Cocoa, included as additional All Aboard Florida stops.

Actually, it is free of charge. They will allow you to read the newspaper. You don't have to pay for it.

New Miami-Orlando train service could be boon to downtowns


August 18, 2012

By Michael Turnbell

Read More: http://articles.sun-sentinel.com/201...passenger-rail

yeah , being stuck in trafic (in a car)
if its a long long freight train , thats anoying
but for a short passenger train
no big deal , just like a red light......

^Yeah, I don't see waiting less than 10 to 15 seconds for a passenger train making only three stops (only two per hour) in the entire metro being a big deal.

I cant view the sun sentinal stuff
can someone post some info on the broward hub?

I love downtown fl lauderdale
In my party days this was the place to be
but this was back when it was ghetto bad.

Here is the blurb about Fort Lauderdale's proposed downtown station site, from the article posted by M II A II R II K.

http://articles.sun-sentinel.com/201...passenger-rail

Wow...

I really hope this all works out in the end. If it does, then it should serve as a model of how private-funded HSR projects could work in the US.

On a side note. I thought the new intermodal facility being built at MIA was to have high-speed rail access in addition to the metrolink and bus facilities. Am I wrong?

nice try
I hate private-funded HSR projects.
the rep GOV of florida can stick this up his butt.
the public transit system in dade county is going to put people on this train.
the public transit system is broward county is going to put people on this train.
the public transit system in palm beach is going to put people on this train.
the public airport in orlando is going to put people on this train.

if anybody wants to trade rick scott for a used bicycle lets do it.

Stop spamming the post and I don't like it at all. I do not appreciate for your behavior. You could reset your post count back to zero.

do you know anything about Rick Scott?

what was it I said about High Speed Rail that bothers you?

do you have a used bicycle?