PUBLIC MEETING...HIGH SPEED RAILWAY…MAY 27
Mark your calendars – All Aboard Florida is the scheduled topic for a meeting on May 27 at 7:00pm at the Tequesta Baptist Church, on Tequesta Drive. The meeting is open to the public. Officials have asked state leaders for help to reduce All Aboard Florida’s impact. A meeting on this topic was discussed in Jupiter back in April.
Tequesta Mayor, Abby Brennan, Kim Delany, Treasure Coast Regional Planning Council strategic development coordinator and Representative Patrick Murphy, D-Jupiter are scheduled to be present for this meeting. The panel is will discuss the privately funded $1.5 billion high-speed passenger-freight train scheduled to run in 2016 between Orlando and Miami.
All Aboard Florida wants to run 32 additional high-speed trains through our area without stops. Opposition to the train called “Florida Not All Aboard” is not thrilled about the idea.
A Coral Gables based parent company, Florida East Coast Industries, plans to use existing 200-mile route that sister firm, Florida East Coast Railway, uses from Miami to Cocoa Beach. Additional railway tracks will have to be built and a new route from Cocoa to the Orlando International Airport.
The Federal Railroad Administration and the U.S. Coast Guard are conducting a thorough review and analysis of the potential impacts of the proposed passenger rail service will have. The FRA will publish the result when it releases the Draft Environmental Impact Statement this summer. This report will identify potential impacts the project could have on local communities. Just this week, All Aboard Florida agreed to extend the public comment period to 75 days after the report is released and to hold a public forum in each county in the study.
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