Top 5 Misconceptions About All Aboard Florida

Recently, as with many developments, opposition has tried to bite All Aboard Florida's project bringing intercity passenger service between Miami and Orlando. People have a fancy for distorting the truth about what the project plans to do and bring to the communities involved.

My efforts were combined with the High Speed Rail America Club to produce a video contesting the top 5 butchered claims about the system. Here is a summary of the top 5 misconceptions about the service:

5. All Aboard Florida will cause economic impact.
There is no logical way that a city's economic health can be ruined. In fact, the contrary, due to the easier logistics and added service/hospitality that is to follow.
4. All Aboard Florida is Publicly Funded.
All Aboard Florida's only gov't involvement is a loan. Other than that it is simply 100% private, run by FECI which is in the Private Sector.
3. All Aboard Florida is Noisy.
Any noise impact by a light nine-car trainset cannot match to the already existing 10,000 ton freight trains that traverse the mainline on a daily basis. 
2. All Aboard Florida will cause crossing delays.
AAF put out a video demonstrating a mean crossing time for a train at 68mph will be 44 seconds. The 3-4 minute delays are baloney at this point. AAF also pledged to improve drawbridge ops significantly, probably to match or top the performance of those on congested commuter corridors like the NEC/NJT.
1. More Freight Trains
Freight trains are not in AAF's line of business but in Florida East Coast Railway's. They can triple freight trains right now if they wanted to; because that will only meet the traffic volume from ten years ago. 

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