Brightline Construction Project 93% Complete, Substantial Completion Expected In June

Brightline has provided a construction update on its project that will bring fast train service between Miami and Orlando.

The project is now over 93% complete, according to a report issued to investors in Monday.

Substantial completion is expected in June 2023.

Ticket sales recently launched for dates starting September 1 and beyond (but the service start date could come sooner than that).

Brightline also said it had completed deign of a pedestrian bridge from its Aventura station to the Aventura Mall across the street. The design has been approved by an Independent Peer Review
engineering firm, and is now awaiting FDOT approval.

 

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Anonymous
6 months ago

Looking forward to seeing that pedestrian bridge to Aventura Mall.

Anonymous
6 months ago

Hopefully that bridge will actually connect to the mall and not make pedestrians/shoppers schlep through rain and heat. They could connect it to one of the garages which would allow people to at least walk the last hundred feet or so covered by one or more garage levels.

Anon
6 months ago

Unfortunately it doesn’t seem to be connected to the garage in the renderings. It seems to end across the street from the garage, where an office building is planned.

Anonymous
6 months ago

The J.C. Penney parking garage is also a major bus depot, and potentially streetcar (wishfully thinking).

Melo is sigma and Chad
6 months ago

The bridge to the mall will really jump the aventura ridership

Anon
6 months ago

For who? It’s great for folks who work at the mall, but I doubt many shoppers are taking a train + long walk to a mall.

Imagine walking that distance (plus the walk on the other end of the train ride) with bags/boxes…

Anonymous
6 months ago

You mean like how you have to walk through a mall or parking lot with bags/boxes? Please think before you post.

Anonymous
6 months ago

Actually the Brightline station will be shared with the Northeast Corridor Commuter Rail between Adventura and Miami Central. They are not sure who will run it (Tri-Rail or someone else). If you notice half the station has a low level platform for this commuter service. Many of the people using the bridge will be workers from the NECCR line. Brightline offers a free shuttle bus now to and from the mall bus station from its station now. I figure once the bridge is complete they’ll discontinue the shuttle.

Anonymous
6 months ago

the county is slowly shrinking…would be great to see an analysis of actual car trips being removed off the roads

Lechozo
6 months ago

None apparently. MDX expressways had a slump in 2020 and 2021. However, 2022 had more transactions (cars passing tolls) than 2019. 2023 is on its way to beat 2022. All years are July to June.

Niño
6 months ago

-What ever happened to Amtrak to Intermodal Center at airport?

Anonymous
6 months ago

The California Brightline between Los Angeles, and Las Vegas will be a true high speed rail with speeds up to 186 mph. Why not between Miami and Orlando?

Not Anonymous
6 months ago

lets see… money, space, time, reality…. Yeah what’s stopping them?

Anonymous
6 months ago

Crappy governors and fact California is involved.

Anon
6 months ago

Most of the track will be built in un-populated and/or empty areas, which decreases railroad crossings allowing trains to run faster. In SoFlo, this just isn’t possible.

Biff
6 months ago

Think the Orlando spur will under achieve overall outside some busy weekends. The cruise port up near Cape Canaveral is booming and more and more Orlando based families and folk are taking cruises up there and less out of Port Everglades and Miami. And do the theme parks really generate that much movement between South Florida and Orlando. And certainly we have plenty of Airport ability so no need to travel to Orlando’s airport. Brightline ridership has to be local and regional. Then is it Tri Rail or Bright Line to take the lead on commuting between the three cities and inter city rail movement.