Despite concerns raised by citizens groups about project funding and community impacts, the company developing a $1.5-billion Miami-to-Orlando passenger rail line is pushing ahead with its ambitious plans for the 235-mile-long system. Officials with All Aboard Florida (AAF)—a division of Florida East Coast Industries (FECI), Coral Gables—unveiled their third south Florida station, in West Palm Beach, on July 21.
In conjunction with the event, AAF tweeted this from President Michael Reininger: "All initial steps for our stations are now underway. This is now, in fact, happening."