We are, as a county, going back to the future with our focus of railroad improvements. These include All Aboard Florida and eventually Tri-Rail's Coastal Link. Click title for link to article which reminds us of our beginnings and our future. From the article:
The passenger train shuttled wealthy tourists to luxury hotels on Palm Beach, opening the county’s wilderness frontier to new development. Cities began to rise as Flagler built new stations along his Florida East Coast Bramson, the company historian for the Florida East Coast Railway. “Everything grew up around the stations.”Check out the following High Noon in Lake Worth shows featuring Seth Bramson, FEC Historian:
Now, some historians say restoring passenger service on Flagler’s decade-old railway may be the only way for Palm Beach County to continue to grow. All Aboard Florida plans 32 passenger trains a day between Miami and Orlando on the FEC tracks, with stops in Fort Lauderdale and West Palm Beach. The Miami-to-West Palm Beach service is expected to begin in late 2016 with the Orlando leg starting in 2017.
The proposed Tri-Rail Coastal Link would also run on the FEC tracks, providing city-by-city commuter rail service between Jupiter and Miami.
“Passenger rail was ceased because it wasn’t seen as being needed any longer,” West Palm Beach attorney and historian Harvey Oyer III said. “At this point, we cannot build enough roads to continue to provide transportation and infrastructure. We have come full circle and come back to using rail again.”
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