All Aboard Florida's Brightline is more than a privately funded passenger rail service. The ability to develop dynamic mobility-centric urban centers of Transit Oriented Development was a significant factor in the decision to launch the service.
Despite years of anti-rail opposition, operations are expected to start before the end of the year on an ambitious project that leverages a 100-year-old infrastructure backbone to combine rail transit with transit oriented development. Here is a brief overview of where the $3 billion privately funded passenger rail project and the accompanying 4 million square feet of transit oriented development currently stands.
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Brightline Launches In Florida, Eyes Expansion To Other States
Pundits predicted that a privately-funded passenger rail system in Florida would fail to materialize. Those predictions were wrong, and now company officials are eyeing regional expansion.
High Speed Rail From Houston To Dallas Inches Closer To Reality
The Texas 'bullet train' cleared a major hurdle as the Federal Railroad Administration releases draft environmental impact statement identifying preferred routes and identifying passenger station locations.
Feds Approve Passenger Rail Expansion From West Palm Beach To Orlando
Brightline launching service to Miami and start construction on Phase 2 expansion to Orlando in early 2018.
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The States Losing Rural Delivery Rooms at an Alarming Pace
In some states, as few as 9% of rural hospitals still deliver babies. As a result, rising pre-term births, no adequate pre-term care and harrowing close calls are a growing reality.
The Small South Asian Republic Going all in on EVs
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DC Backpedals on Bike Lane Protection, Swaps Barriers for Paint
Citing aesthetic concerns, the city is removing the concrete barriers and flexposts that once separated Arizona Avenue cyclists from motor vehicles.
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