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Upon full buildout of the Miami–Orlando route, trains operate at up to 79 mph (130 km/h) between Miami and West Palm Beach, up to 110 mph (180 km/h) between West Palm Beach and Cocoa, and up to 125 mph (200 km/h) between Cocoa and the Orlando International Airport. [124] A future extension to Tampa from Orlando is in the planning stages.
On Friday, Sept. 22, the inaugural trip was scheduled to leave the downtown Miami station at 6:41 a.m. for a 3-1/2 journey to the recently finished station at Orlando International Airport.
Orlando International Airport Intermodal Terminal under construction (2017) The facility mostly reuses plans from the proposed Florida High Speed Rail system. In that plan, the Orlando International Airport station was to be the northern terminus of the initial Tampa-to-Orlando route along Interstate 4 .
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The second phase of the project would have been an Orlando-Miami link. As of the Regional Rail Briefing in Lakeland, Florida, on March 24, 2010, two routes were under consideration. One route followed SR 528 past the Orlando International Airport toward Cape Canaveral, before joining and following Interstate 95 down to Miami.
Brightline and the Miami-Dade County Commission agreed to access fees in November 2020. [7] The estimated cost for full buildout of the line was $325 million in 2021. [6] Operations were expected to start as early as 2024. [8] By 2023, station locations had been identified and service frequencies for trains were expected to be every 30 to 60 ...
Orlando International Airport (IATA: MCO, ICAO: KMCO, FAA LID: MCO) [6] is the primary international airport located 6 miles (9.7 km) southeast of Downtown Orlando, Florida. In 2021, it had 19,618,838 enplanements , making it the busiest airport in the state and seventh busiest airport in the United States .
In May 2009, Miami-Dade County broke ground on the AirportLink project, a 2.4-mile (3.9 km) extension of Metrorail connecting the existing Earlington Heights station to the Miami Intermodal Center (MIC), located adjacent to Miami International Airport's rental car center. The AirportLink was considered a vital component of the People's ...