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Final Environmental Impact Statement

All Aboard Florida – Operations LLC (AAF) proposed to construct a privately owned and operated intercity passenger railroad system to connect Orlando and Miami, with intermediate stops in Fort Lauderdale and West Palm Beach, Florida. AAF is a wholly-owned subsidiary of Florida East Coast Industries, Inc. (FECI), one of Florida’s oldest and largest transportation, infrastructure, and commercial real estate companies. AAF proposed to construct a new approximately 40-mile dedicated rail corridor parallel to Florida State Road 528 connecting to the existing Florida East Coast (FEC) Railway, which has supported freight and/or passenger service on a continuous basis for more than 100 years. The Project also includes infrastructure improvements to the existing FEC rail corridor between Cocoa and West Palm Beach. Continue

USA: Florida East Coast Industries Inc has announced that it is to produce an ‘investment grade’ ridership study for a $1bn privately owned, operated and maintained inter-city passenger service carrying business travellers and tourists between Miami and Orlando.

Revealing outline plans for All Aboard Florida on March 22 [2012], property and railway company FECI said the target launch date is 2014. FECI would own and operate the line, and ‘Florida’s taxpayers will have no ongoing construction or operating risks’.

The 380 km route would connect Miami, Fort Lauderdale, West Palm Beach and Orlando, using a 320 km route between Miami and Cocoa which belongs to FECI’s Florida East Coast Railway subsidiary. A further 60 km of new track would provide the link to Orlando. SOURCE