FL: Brightline closer to Broward, Miami-Dade commuter rail deals

The new year is shaping up as a pivotal period for daily commuters anxious to see the eventual buildout of local rail services in South Florida.

Last week, Tri-Rail announced that within a number of months, it is likely to start direct nonstop service from its north-south corridor west of Interstate 95 into downtown Miami.

And now, Brightline, which controls the rights for passenger service along the Florida East Coast Railway corridor, says it expects to reach written agreements with Broward and Miami-Dade counties within months.

Both counties, which are pursuing their own individual projects, envision the linkage of both so that commuters would have coordinated local service running between a point south of the New River in Fort Lauderdale into the MiamiCentral station in downtown Miami.

“We continue to advance projects with Miami-Dade and Broward counties to provide commuter service on our corridor, improving mobility access for local neighborhoods and acting as a feeder system to our higher speed intercity service,” Brightline said in a recent monthly financial report. .............(more)

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