All Aboard Florida, an intercity passenger rail that will connect Miami to Orlando, unveiled today, designs for the new Fort Lauderdale station, one of two intermediate station stops. The other station is West Palm Beach.
The 27,500-square-foot station will be situated in northern downtown Fort Lauderdale on 4.8 acres adjacent to existing Florida East Coast Railway tracks.
Planned and designed by  Skidmore, Owings & Merrill LLP (SOM), the Fort Lauderdale Station unveiling comes on the heels of the May 28th release of designs for All Aboard Florida’s Miami Station, an elevated multimodal hub in the city’s downtown. West Palm Beach station will be unveiled later this summer.
All Aboard Florida, a 235-mile rail network, will connect South Florida to Orlando utilizing the existing Florida East Coast Corridor infrastructure and creating new tracks into Central Florida.
Privately owned and operated, All Aboard Florida is being developed by Florida East Coast Industries, (FECI). Passenger service in expected to commence in late 2016.
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