Land purchase points to West Palm Beach location for train...

Article regarding the "fast" train which will be running on the FEC tracks from Miami to Orlando.  It will whiz through Lake Worth, with the nearest stop being West Palm Beach.  Click title for link to article that describes some recent land purchases around the future station area and some more specifics regarding the service.

At the joint Planning and Zoning and Historic Resource Preservation Boards meeting last night, we reviewed two different "Transit Oriented Development" - TOD zoning districts that will allow Lake Worth to eventually be home to a combination station with commercial or residential components - it is still unknown when exactly we will have a regular passenger service train on the FEC tracks and whether the area, density, intensity and height limitations would be enough to entice such a transit oriented development project.  According to William Waters, the FEC will have a station where they think there is a proven ridership base - it will cost them $200,000 a year for each station stop.  Ridership would have to be high enough to cover that cost for the transit line to be successful.