![]() ![]() Construction is expected to wrap up by fall 2021. 3, Brightline and Miami-Dade County officials broke ground on an Aventura Station on 3 acres next to Aventura Mall. In Palm Bay, Brightline crews recently closed the railroad crossing at Malabar Road to install upgrades.Ĭonstruction of two concrete-and-steel rail bridges spanning Turkey Creek in Palm Bay should kick off next month with land-clearing, grubbing and crane mobilization. Sebastian River at the Brevard-Indian River county line. More: Virgin Trains clears 25 miles between Cocoa and Orlando, begins building rail bridgesĮlsewhere along the Space Coast, construction continues on new rail bridges at Crane Creek in Melbourne, Goat Creek in Grant-Valkaria, and the St. More: Brightline replacing rusting downtown Melbourne train bridge with twin steel bridges Traffic should begin driving atop this newly elevated stretch of the Beachline by mid-August, Carroll said. ![]() "What we're doing is picking up the elevation of the asphalt of 528 25-plus feet, in order to get it above the rail profile," Carroll said. What we're doing is building 528 over the top of the rail," said Matt Carroll, Brightline assistant project manager. Just east of Interstate 95, Brightline also is constructing an elevated "fly-under structure" on the Beachline in Brevard County. "Shutting down 528 just isn't feasible," Mitzner said. And this was just one of the examples of our contractors bringing ideas to us that are going to help move this project along," Brightline spokesperson Katie Mitzner said. "A project of this size and scope requires innovation. Using conventional, phased bridge-construction methods at Goldenrod Road, Gammon said crews would have had to shut down driving lanes, build half of the underpass, shift traffic onto it, and then build the other half - triggering driving delays for roughly a year. ![]() Watch Video: Construction scenes from the Brightline underpass at Goldenrod Road in Orlando The highway will remain open to traffic, and traffic will shift lanes during the project. Gammon said Brightline will install the Cocoa train underpass during the first quarter of next year during two successive "pushes" - one beneath the Beachline's eastbound lanes and one beneath the westbound lanes. The privately funded passenger-rail company plans to launch a new 170-mile service between Orlando and West Palm Beach by the end of 2022. Company officials say they are among the first in America to use this method to install a train tunnel. The "box-jacked" Goldenrod Road underpass at the northeast corner of Orlando International Airport is one of the construction highlights of Brightline's $550 million east-west rail project linking the airport with Cocoa. And they're starting to work on casting the box pieces themselves," Gammon said. ![]() "Right now, they have constructed all of the jacking-slab infrastructure. On the Space Coast, Brightline will utilize the same "box-jacking" method in Cocoa to install a similar underpass for higher-speed trains beneath the Beachline Expressway, a few hundred feet west of U.S. ![]()
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