Tri-Rail Coastal Link: Tri-Rail coming to downtown Miami in 2018 (North Miami: insurance, home)

[bale002]

Despite obstacles, Tri-Rail still coming to downtown Miami in 2018 | Miami Herald

Tri-Rail coastal link is an initiative carried on by various state, regional and local transportation entities, as well as the private entity Florida East Coast railways (owner of All Aboard Florida), with the aim of bringing Tri-Rail service to coastal downtown areas, you know, where people actually live and walk instead of hard-to-reach stations in random places along abysmal I-95 (nobody goes there anymore, it's too crowded).

Here also are links to the home pages of the South Florida Regional Transportation Authority and the Tri-Rail Coastal Link Initiative:

http://www.sfrta.fl.gov/home.aspx
Tri-Rail Coastal Link | Home

Unfortunately, both websites are poorly organized, hard to navigate, contain grammatical errors, and fail to provide any email alert for news. It was a painful experience to glean any useful information out of them. But there they are, along with random general news stories as cited above.

Some progress, then, better than nothing.

Good Luck!

[perry335654]

It's definitely a go if one reads about the liability insurance quibble as now Tri-Rail will self-insure itself, no thanks to the FDOT, they will go elsewhere for the 20-million funding gap.

[Sugah Ray]

I guess it's better than nothing but I think the traffic that needs to be fixed is South of Government Center. If this plan is carried out, it will help the people in North Miami and Aventura. Maybe some commuters from Broward. Hopefully they will have express trains like they do with Metrorail. It will also help with gentrification. If this is built, Overtown could gentrify faster.

[Bobdreamz]

From the article posted above :

"Because the tracks will serve both public and private passenger cars, both Tri-Rail and All Aboard wanted lawmakers to pass a law making it clear they would not be held responsible for a crash in which they had no involvement. When lawmakers failed to act, that also created a funding problem, because the Florida Department of Transportation wouldn’t kick in its planned Tri-Rail contribution of roughly $20 million unless the law had been changed.

In effect, a minor legal technicality was threatening to sabotage a hugely important piece of South Florida’s future transportation plans."

Leave it to G-NO-P lawmakers in Tally to do anything worthwhile for SE Florida and it's transit issues. They seem to forget where the vast majority of the state's Tax Revenue comes from.

[danielsard]

It always seems like Florida politicians don't want to help unless it has a benefit for them somehow..

[Ave07]

Originally Posted by danielsard

It always seems like Florida politicians don't want to help unless it has a benefit for them somehow..

Just add toll booths on all the railroad tracks and they will approve in no time.

[Bobdreamz]

Originally Posted by Ave07

Just add toll booths on all the railroad tracks and they will approve in no time.

Ha! Ha!