transitrider wrote:Kurt-Trirail wrote:transitrider wrote:Tri Rail and State of Florida owns the line between West Palm to Miami that when the state bough the tracks as well.
The state, specifically. CSX remains in charge of dispatch.
-Kurt
Yeah but there was rumor that TriRail wants to own the tracks and upgrade them so they may run express trains in the spring which will have express from West Palm Beach to Miami
I don't think there is any truth to this at all. Many of the riders on Tri-Rail do not travel the full length of the route.
On and off traffic at Fort Lauderdale for example is pretty heavy. They do not have equipment nor funds for any additional
service and in fact they may be running more trains right now than they should given their equipment situation. They have
had to cancel trains a number of times for equipment problems or lack of equipment.
As for the dispatcher, thanks to CSX, Tri-Rail is forced to employ an extra train dispatcher who keeps a train sheet of
movements over the high level bridge here in Fort Lauderdale. He has a small model board but he has no control over any
signals nor switches in this operation. This is another example of incompetence on the part of the State of Florida.
Noel Weaver