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All Aboard Florida ready to begin construction of Fort Lauderdale station
Fort Lauderdale Sun Sentinel
by Michael Turnbell
10/28/2014

> It's full steam ahead for All Aboard Florida's downtown Fort
> Lauderdale station.

> Officials are set to begin demolition of existing buildings on the
> site Wednesday morning, marking the start of construction.

> The station will be located on nearly 5 acres adjacent to the Florida
> East Coast Railway at Northwest Second Street, north of Broward
> Boulevard.
>
> The station will be sleek, focused on getting passengers quickly from
> an outdoor plaza to a building with ground-level ticketing, rental
> car and concessions. It will lead to a lounge with 200 seats above
> the tracks where people will wait to take elevators and escalators to
> board the trains.
>
> Architects have described the design as "progressive future-looking,"
> with V-shaped columns.
>
> Northwest Second Street will be permanently closed at the FEC tracks
> so an 800-foot long passenger platform can be built, though an
> official closing date hasn't been announced.
>
> Once the station is completed, a new two-lane street immediately west
> of the tracks will serve as the main entrance. The street would run
> south from Fourth Street, then curve west to Northwest First Avenue.
> Flagler Avenue, immediately east of the tracks, will become one-way
> northbound between Second and Fourth streets.
>
> The Fort Lauderdale station is one of four planned along the route,
> including stations in downtown Miami, downtown West Palm Beach and
> Orlando International Airport.
>
> Service is set to begin from Miami to West Palm Beach in late 2016,
> followed by the northern segment to Orlando the following year.
>
> The Federal Railroad Administration, meanwhile, kicked off the first
> of eight public meetings in Miami Monday to get comments on an
> environmental study that reviewed the project's impact from West Palm
> Beach to Orlando. The study also examined impacts to boaters on the
> New River in Fort Lauderdale, the Loxahatchee River in Jupiter and
> the St. Lucie River.
>
> Upcoming meetings, both from 3:30 to 7 p.m., will be Tuesday at the
> Broward County Convention Center, 1950 Eisenhower Blvd., Fort
> Lauderdale; and Wednesday at West Palm Beach Marriott, 1001
> Okeechobee Blvd., West Palm Beach.

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Edited 1 time(s). Last edit at 10/28/14 15:50 by GenePoon.

Highway traffic is often dead locked between West Palm Beach and Miami. Even with a "free" interstate, a free US 1 and a toll road linking the end points.

The higher speed train might well turn a profit on the first segment, all by itself.

I wonder if there will be shuttles between the FLL station and the FLL cruise port?

I hope that there will be double track put in to accommodate the something like 70 trains operating on it per day when the full thing gets completed.

Tor in Eugene

Is there a architect's drawing somewhere?

Maybe even a computer generated picture showing the proposed station in current surroundings?

chs7-321 Wrote:
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> Is there a architect's drawing somewhere?
>
> Maybe even a computer generated picture showing
> the proposed station in current surroundings?

Here is how AAF is presenting it:

http://www.allaboardflorida.com/stations/ftl-station.html

This is so good.......

How different from the X-train.

Parking lot seems small - smaller then most parking lots I've seen
for SEPTA trains in Philadelphia and surrounding areas. Sure, we
have a lot of commuters, but Florida's system will have few stations
so I would assume more people congregating at each one.

/Mitch