What's next for AAF in 2014

[spuwho]

Per the Orlando Business Journal

Here's what you can look out for in 2014 with regards to All Aboard Florida:

• The next series of public meetings will take place to get public input on an environmental impact study being done by third-party consultant Vanasse Hangen Brustlin Inc. The first series of meetings was held last spring. See details on that study process here.

http://www.allaboardflorida.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/05/AAF-Public-Scoping-Presentation-DualScreen-FINAL.pdf

• Once the Federal Railroad Administration receives the study and the public input from the meetings, it can sign off on the project and construction can begin from West Palm Beach to Orlando.

• Infrastructure on the rail project will start, generating temporary 6,600 construction jobs and $400 million worth of construction work will take place in Central Florida.

• Construction to start on the 80-acre vehicle maintenance facility near the Orlando airport, where 80 permanent jobs will be created to manage eight of the rail system's 10 rail cars.

• A contractor being named to handle the manufacturing of the passenger train cars, known as rolling stock.

[Ocklawaha]

80 people to maintain 10 cars? 10 cars to operate hourly 5-7 car trains between Orlando and Miami? Somebody must have gone to school at OU!

[tufsu1]

^ I think they are going to have 10 trains....which probably means more like 40-60 cars