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November 2018

MAN STRUCK AND KILLED BY TRI-RAIL TRAIN IN DANIA BEACH

A MAN WAS STRUCK AND KILLED BY A TRI-RAIL SUNDAY MORNING NOV. 25 IN DANIA BEACH, authorities said. The cause of the crash has not been determined and the accident is still under investigation.

The Friday night prior, another pedestrian was struck and killed. A total of ten people have been killed by Brightline's high-speed passenger trains since the beginning of their service this year.

Read more here.

TRAIN WRECK TIMES - CELEBRATE GREAT NEWS

WE ARE CELEBRATING GREAT NEWS. Our Call to Action sent out Nov. 18 to attend a special meeting of the IRC commissioners on Nov. 20th turned out to be critical. At 7:45 p.m. the night before the meeting, we received notice that the meeting would focus on a deal negotiated between Martin and Indian River Counties and CARE with the representatives of AAF/Virgin. The attorneys for the respective counties circulated the deal to their commissioners.

THIS RAPID LINE WAS PRIVATELY FINANCED AND BUILT. CAN THE STATE REGULATE IT?

SEN. DEBBIE MAYFIELD PLANS TO PUSH FOR MORE STATE OVERSIGHT OF ALL ABOARD FLORIDA’S BRIGHTLINE HIGH-SPEED PASSENGER RAIL SERVICE. This bill was founded by troubling issues found from reading an Oct. 31 report from the Legislature’s Office of Program Poly Analysis and Government Accountability.

BRIGHTLINE SUBMITS PROPOSAL FOR ORLANDO-TAMPA RAIL SERVICE

THE FLORIDA DEPARTMENT OF TRANSPORTATION RECEIVED A PROPOSAL FOR A FAST PASSENGER RAIL SERVICE BY ALL ABOARD FLORIDA, LINKING ORLAND TO TAMPA, the FDOT stated on Wednesday. All Aboard Florida has recently expressed interest in extending their rail service Brightline to Tampa.

FDOT and the Central Florida Expressway Authority have established a committee that will review submitted proposals before advancing the proposals to a state committee.