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Example:

Shift freight rail from the South Florida Rail Corridor (aka CSX rail line) to the Florida East Coast Railway in anticipation of FEC passenger rail service by increasing rail connections between the two corridors and coordinating with freight rail companies.

Objective:

Mobility

Strategy Category:

(B) Transit capacity: Increase person-carrying capacity via transit on regionally significant transit facilities

Strategy:

Future Rail Transit: (I.B.3) Implement future FEC rail service - both intercity rail service (All Aboard Florida) and local transit service

Originators:

FDOT

Implementors:

FDOT, Freight Rail Companies

Timeframe:

Current

Applies Systemwide?:

Yes

Comments:

FDOT received a 2013 TIGER grant for the South Florida Freight and Passenger Rail Enhancements Project to allow freight traffic to more easily shift to the industrial South Florida Corridor railway corridor, which will increase capacity for the Tri-Rail Coastal Link and Brightline passenger rail service on the Florida East Coast railway corridor.

FDOT is conducting the preliminary design for three connections as part of the South Florida Freight and Passenger Rail Enhancements Project:
(1) rehabilitating the existing Northwood connection in West Palm Beach (Phase 1A), (2) constructing a new IRIS Northeast connection in Hialeah (Phase 1B), and (3) constructing a new Northwoood connection in West Palm Beach (Phase 2).

Installation of new at grade railroad crossing signals at approx. six locations. Modifications of wayside signalization along South Florida Rail Corridor and Florida East Coast corridor.

Example last updated August 2017

Contact: Marjorie Hilaire, FDOT D4 OMD-Rail

FM #434948-1, #434948-2, #433514-1

Ex. ID 043

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