Category for articles (not Letters to editor or testimonials)
Reading time: 9 mins We are asked to believe removing vehicles traveling 15 minutes through a city by highway helps air quality but traveling 15 minutes locally to and from a train station has no adverse air or human health impacts.
Reading time: 3 mins Any agreement, therefore, to sell the City-Owned property to VTUSA at less than Fair Market Value violates City Code and is invalid.
Reading time: 2 mins Development will no longer be based on car traffic, but now greater densities will be allowed under the false pretense that everybody’s going to ride the trains.
Reading time: 3 mins Our Mayor, city staff and Council Members are very good at many things, but they have zero experience in the economics of rail transportation.
Reading time: 5 mins The FEC system is an economic asset of Florida we take for granted. Its LNG freight trains use the cleanest “well to wheels” fuel to deliver that benefit.
Reading time: 3 mins The shared use path project was stopped before completion in August, 2019 leaving 0.6 miles incomplete.
Reading time: 3 mins Virgin Trains answers questions about Brightline, the garage location and plans for a TOD parcel on the library property.
Reading time: 3 mins Residents had the opportunity to attend a presentation by one of their own City Council members, Monica Mayotte.
Reading time: 5 mins You can be FOR a train station but AGAINST the City’s current design. There are more “Boca oriented” design alternatives.
Reading time: 3 mins The problem with claiming that the VTUSA study satisfies the legal criteria is that there are no City costs factored into the economic impact study.