Brightline Trains Florida LLC — the struggling private rail line connecting Orlando to Miami — was downgraded five notches by ...

TAMPA, Fla. (WFLA) — Brightline’s plans to expand to Tampa are still underway as the company seeks $400 million to help fund the project. According to a notice from the Florida Development Finance ...

TAMPA, Fla. (WFLA) — Plans to bring the Brightline to Tampa are taking a big step forward. Ybor City is a place where leaders said they would like to see the Brightline station built. Brightline is ...

The public can weigh in on the possible Brightline expansion to Tampa on Thursday. The FDFC would loan up to $400 million in bonds to Brightline to pay for the design, development and construction of ...

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Brightline has broken its own deadline for reviving its South Florida commuter pass, scrubbing from its website its promise to do so after receiving nearly $34 million in tax money. The for-profit ...

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The dramatic downgrade projects a default by January 2027 on bonds issued to finance the Miami-to-Orlando passenger train service.

The first Brightline high-speed train rolled out of Orlando’s airport at dawn on Sept. 22, 2023, and headed for Miami, tugging four coach cars filled with hundreds of exuberant passengers peering out ...

The report concludes that, though the fire truck was responding to an emergency, the driver failed to use “due care.” The Tampa Bay Times e-Newspaper is a digital replica of the printed paper seven ...

RAILWAY AGE AUGUST 2025 ISSUE: For 115 years after Railway Age began publishing in 1856, passenger trains were operated by private-sector railroads. That changed in 1971, when Amtrak was formed to ...