Cocoa-Not-Beach, where AAF will be passing (and changing direction for the only time between Miami and Orlando).
https://www.google.com/maps/@28.4040877,-80.759075,15z
My links are a bit dated (Spring, 2015) but last I heard it was not initially planned (as a stop) but could be added later. I thought you guys might have more fresh info.
http://www.floridatoday.com/story/op...ject/25963323/
http://www.floridatoday.com/story/op...-hub/26577323/
"In South Florida, work has begun on slick stations connected to shops, offices and commuter rail in downtown Miami, Fort Lauderdale and West Palm Beach. Trains could roll by 2017.
Brevard may not see 32 trains a day right away, and no one could say whether it will get a stop.
That will be for the market, not activists or local governments, to decide."
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"Q: What have you heard from Cocoa residents about it?
Parrish: I have a few residents that aren't for it. But I'd say about 70 percent are for it.
Q: But the service isn't planning to stop in Brevard, meaning your constituents wouldn't experience the upside. All Aboard Florida's president told me that's because they haven't detected a market here.
Parrish: This is a money-making enterprise, not subsidized like Amtrak or something. But I've sat in a lot of meetings with these guys and said, "You'd be crazy not to stop in Cocoa."
The Port is going to drive this. It's doing a market study for the company.
Passenger rail is the future. Obviously, I'm pro-cargo-rail too, but that's a little out of my purview. That'll happen a little farther north."