All Aboard Florida’s Brightline high-speed passenger train gets Orange County OK to lay tracks in wetlands

By Stephen Hudak, Reporter, Orlando Sentinel; June 19, 2018

After winning approval Tuesday from Orange County commissioners, the company planning a high-speed passenger train linking Orlando with Miami expects to start laying rail in Central Florida later this year, a project executive said.

The 235-mile rail service includes a 22-mile stretch through Orange County that runs parallel to State Road 528 beginning at the St. Johns River and running to Orlando International Airport, mostly through protected wetlands.

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