High Speed Rail to Miami : Taking the Brightline from Fort Lauderdale in March 2022
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- The Brightline is a High Speed Rail currently serving the cities of Miami, Fort Lauderdale, and West Palm Beach. It has plans to expand to Orlando and eventually the Tampa area. In this video, I took this method of public transit to Miami from Fort Lauderdale and I was pleasantly surprised at the experience.
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Recorded March 21, 2022
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This is going to be the future of Florida. To connect Miami Orlando Tampa and possibly Jacksonville, will make me locating down there all the better. Who needs traffic when you have bright line! 😎👊
Don’t matter when everyone uses car in Miami lol 😆
@@niceandflyy Not everyone uses their car 100% of the time there, speak for yourself.
This is amazing! Wow Tampa to Miami without the traffic...
It sure will be great, as you say.
It will be awesome to see it fully constructed! I'm looking forward to it!
@@niceandflyy I for sure don’t enjoy driving in a stressful big city or the highways between a megalopolis such as between Miami West Palm Fort Lauderdale. If you enjoy it and it’s practical then more power to you but it just stresses me so I’m glad they have this train now!
This will be a perfect combination to go to Miami, modern train features comfort and convenience to users...AK thanks for showing an exciting opportunity to go around...
Yes, I will have to take it to West Palm Beach next time!
Good morning Action Kid,
It was very nice of the Brightline worker to show you everything for sale in the cart.
Do have a nice day.
The waiting lounge and the Brightline look so modern, clean, and spacious. 🤩 $17.00 is a decent price for the high speed rail, and it includes a complimentary car service within 5 miles! The train attendant was so nice to show you all the drinks from the cart! 😎 Perhaps you can show us the Premium Class experience one day? 😆 Thank you for sharing this informative and smooth, efficient high speed rail ride, AK! 🤗🚆
It was a very nice experience! I'll definitely ride it again
Lol, HSR that goes only 79mph? Yeah, that's not a thing.
@@TohaBgood2 compared to Tri rail, it’s a rocket ship🚀😊
@@Andygirl59 Nope. It’s literally identical. They have the exact same top speed.
Florida should of started concentrating on public transportation YEARS ago. Way behind other large cities and given the emphasis on tourism, it is just good business sense. I really liked riding the Brightline, which is a privately owned line.
Yes, we need better public transportation everywhere!
Blah blah blah blah blah!!!
Oh my!...Larger cities like the one in NY or are you referring to Dubai?...We have been light years ahead of NY for decades and only second to Dubai and Japan...
I agree with you that Florida should’ve had public transportation, better public transportation years ago but glad some of it’s starting now.
@@ladyaly864
Wouldn't use the term behind, we just really don't care 🤷♂️. Japan and Dubai are on a completely different competitive playing field.
For those who were saying that since they live in Florida that they know everything there is to know about the state. LOL. AK will expose all nooks and crannies and ways to get to your destinations.
Amtrak should be getting similar coaches in about a year. Great video.
They’re already being deployed on the Lincoln Service from St. Louis to Chicago.
That would be so great to see!
I wish we had this type of setup in Atlanta. Really need something like this
It would be so nice to have!
So if they are extending the train to Orlando someone could take the train from Orlando to Miami for the day? It's like riding amtrak- love it!! It's so quiet!! I enjoy riding amtrak 😊
Right, it’s so cool , I was ready and apparently it will even have a stop at Disney world!
@@jakirus.whitley That train will be leaving/going to Orlando Airport only and it looks like it will be making a stop in Disney Springs. Then to Ft Lauderdale & West Palm Beach. I was hoping it would stop in the downtown area. I will be down in Orlando in August but downtown area. Oh well!
One can hope
They've been talking about it for years. I'll believe it when I see it.
Miami to Orlando should be ready and open in 2023
Excellent video. You’re doing a great job of showing us the best of Miami and surrounding areas. I really enjoy your channel.
My pleasure!
Both train stations were awesome 👌 & ultra modern. Smooth ride. Beats traffic 👍
Very modern and efficient!
Thank you AK , very nice train , clean and friendly atmosphere xoxo
I love taking the train to the City but this is like a whole other world! Super clean and up to date. Plus the lobby is beautiful. Hope you enjoyed the ride!
It really surprised me!
Looks more similar to the trains in Europe at least the moderate fast trains, and better than their slow trains that stop at every village.
Sure beats I-95 doesn't it AK? Great night ride on the Brightline brother. It's so smooth and quiet too.
Thanks so much for the excellent train ride. While it's basic, compared to Brightline, Tri-Rail connects Miami, Ft. Lauderdale and West Palm Beach for about 1/3 - 1/4 the cost of Brightline. A one-way train ticket in the Tri-Rail train from Fort Lauderdale Airport Station to Miami costs €4 ($5 USD).
Actionkid made a video about that recently
I have used the Tri-Rail between MIA & FLL which was also pretty good (also one needs to wait for a shuttle bus between the FLL station & terminals).
Inside of the train it's wow love it.... It's really is nice. Great sharing actionkid Thanks so much
Excited for Orlando expansion!
The brightline should really go into Tallahassee and the panhandle if it wants to cover all of Florida. The stations in Orlando will be in downtown and near Disney. It needs like a stop in every town to make it feasible. And create a real metro in every city that way it’s both long and short distance covered.
i hope one day that brightline reaches to jacksonville,fl. i want to ride brightline from jacksonville to miami
Beautiful train and station!
Great Video 😍 Enjoyed watching it. Thanks for sharing
That sure beats taking the airlines…
Not a bad price $17 for the pleasant and high speed train ride 🙂!! Such a enjoyable ride , very nice looking train and overall this kind of content is that what i like so !! Thank you for sharing A K 👍!!!
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Hi, AK !! Thank you for taking this wonderful train ride back to your new home, 🌴🌴🚄🌴🌝Miami❣️A quiet clean slick way to travel from here to there in 🌴Florida🦩🦩😎Will continue to follow you all around in Florida ...hope you will be able to visit the crystal clear hot spring rivers sometime🌊💦🌴🦜🦩🦩🐠🐡🐢And manatees too💦Love you, take care❣️
It was a very efficient ride!
Yes, and the stations and lounge areas are very nice too... !! I hope that they will continue to offer the ‘5 mile pick up and delivery to the nearest Brightline Station’ that is included in your ticket price as well, as ridership continues to grow...what a deal❣️🌝🌴🌊🦩💦Take Care, be well...and have fun❣️
AK, I am so glad you took the Brightline Trains. When I was down in Miami in March the main terminal was not open. It seems like a Tranbay center in San Francisco.
I love a good train video! Would love to see more of them from you, as you always have the best commentary.
Thank you so much!
Fancy , you are rocking the south Florida scene 👍
This train is a lot more roomy than long Island railroad. I thought LIRR had nice cars. Brightline runs circles around them.
It's quite impressive what they were able to do!
this is closer to something like the new amtrack cars
@@ciello___8307 It's exactly like the new Amtrak cars. Literally the same model of Venture car. They also use the exact same locomotives as Amtrak and VIA rail in Canada.
They're nice trains, but they're nothing all that special. These are based Siemens Viaggio cars Siemens sells in Europe.
I rode Brightline a couple of years ago from WPB to FTL, which was the only portion open then. Smart class one way and Premium coming back. The latter is very nice, but the basic class is just fine. Of course, Brightline will really only ever be "High Speed" north of WPB, when speeds will be in the 110-125 mph range; south of WPB there are just too many level crossings. I look forward to riding the entire route in the future. Oh, and I love the little cell-phone shelf that folds out of the seatback!
Thank you, this was very helpful and it looks like a great service. I'm surprised not more people are using it. Going all the way to Orlando will really increase ridership, I'm sure. The only thing I would have liked to see are the bathrooms on the train, and if they have a place to put bikes/scooters (are they allowed?) Thanks again!
Yes they do have a rack for bicycles on the train. The restroom is clean and spacious.
It's super clean and hope it can be extended to Orlando soon!
It gets busy on weekdays during rush hour.
I didn't know there was such a thing in America, very modern and clean.
this line is not High Speed Rail, is just faster than the average american rail line but falls short in terms of going as fast as a conventional HSR line
It only started just a few years ago, I forgot exactly something like 2016 or 2018. But hopefully by the end of this year it’s finished all the way to Orlando airport.
@@jam6636 High speed rail is 110 MPH or faster. It'll reach those speeds north of West Palm Beach.
@@Ven100 Nope. HSR starts at 150mph. There's a more relaxed standard for upgraded legacy track at 125mph. But all of Brightline's "fast" track is new. So Brightline fails on the speed front.
It's a nice service, but the HSR part is pure marketing. Fake it till you make it. In this case Brightline is unlikely to actually ever upgrade to proper HSR.
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VIA Rail Canada is getting similar trains. A very big change from the old fleet that will make things nicer.
It seems that they don't advertise much otherwise it would be more people taking advantage of service. Very nice ride 😍
Kenneth sorry for the below comment. Meant for Cash. Great video. Please take care with what happened to your concert situation. You always have my support. Thanks for showing the train ride. A lot more to Florida then I expected. Glad you are settling in well. Also thanks for showing the bridge again.....love watching it go up and down! Be well.
I'm glad you made this video ill be talking the same ride in a few weeks
Looks like fun
It really goes at a decent speed!
Beautiful Siemens train.
Living in Nevada near Las Vegas I can't wait till brightline builds the line from Las Vegas to Los Angeles. Will get you there in under 3 hours at 200 mph.
It’s nice to see more riders on Brightline
The platform extenders are also good because if they have a disabled passenger requiring a mobility assist device, they can get on and off without any difficulty!
I enjoyed the video but thought "high speed" meant going a lot faster than it did. It was certainly a very smooth, quiet ride. Thanks for showing us all the neighborhoods and wonderous places in Florida.
Currently Brightline has a top speed of 78mph between West Palm and Miami. When the expansion to Orlando opens the train will run about 125mph.
It's not really high speed. It only goes 79 mph. And while the locomotive has an aero nose cone, it's actually the exact same locomotive that Amtrak has been using for close to a decade on state routes out west. Both Amtrak and VIA Rail in Canada have basically standardized on the exact same type of locomotive and the same Siemens Venture cars.
Brightline does good marketing. A lot of people seem to believe that it actually is HSR, but it's not even remotely close. Good for them I guess. The more people riding trains the better. I just hope that people don't really believe that this is all there is to actual HSR.
@@rickmartinez3781 Well, that's still very far from HSR though. Actual HSR starts at 150+mph and needs to be sustained speed for most of the route. Even after the extension, Brighline won't hit anything close to that.
There's a carveout in the HSR standard for upgraded legacy track that starts at 125+mph. But all of Brightline's 125mph track is new track, and again, it's not sustained for any large portion of the route. Most of the route is 79mph or 110mph
They do have a part of the section between Cocoa and Orlando that is supposed to be 125mph, but that's a tiny portion of the route. You can't call that "sustained".
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Very nice! So much nicer than the trains in NYC. Actually Miami looks futuristic compared to NYC. Nothing I saw when you were in NYC made me want to go. But from what I see in the Miami area, Its very clean, friendly and modern.
Very cool I never knew it was there!
Thank you for sharing video nice place train and station enjoy beautiful! 🚄💚🌴💚🌴👍🙋♀️
WOW that is nice!!!
BrightLine is going to reimagine travel throughout South Florida and the Orlando and Tampa area. I can’t wait for the Orlando service to start later on this year, this is going to be a game changer, taking the majority of cars off the road, especially on the turnpike, eliminating the hassle of paying tolls. Welcome to the new way of traveling throughout most of the eastern half of Florida.
Very interesting video. Thank you for sharing this👍❤️
Thanks for showing. Very nice. (I appreciate you putting a Google Maps Route in the description.)
Nice train. Though it's not high speed rail. As in China high speed rail. But it's very modern I like it. Can't wait to see the new Acelas too.
This train will run at a top speed of 125 MPH. China also has trains that run at the same speed, like the CRH1. Not every train is a 350 KM/H (217 MPH) Fuxing Hao.
@@Ven100 HSR starts at 150mph.
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Nice video.. however I watched your video of Rush hour on a Friday afternoon at nyc's Grand Central terminal. For future videos I'd like to see the Miami Central station on a Friday afternoon during rush hour. Also would like to see you ride it then. I wondered how full the train would be.
US rail system compared to its contemporaries in Europe and Asia is like decades behind
Great Video. The ride from Ft. Lauderdale to West Palm Beach is really nice as well. Welded rails make the ride very smooth. You're actually moving faster than you think you are.
I love brightline I always have a good time taking it from west palm to Miami so much fun
That looks Awesome! Sadly they finished building this high speed Train after I had left the US. I definitely want to take it whenever I come back to Florida. Great video AK.
Hopefully it's fully finished someday!
This is not a high speed train. It only goes 79mph. The author is mistaken. Amtrak has been using the same locomotives for years and now the same cars on their state routes.
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Fun ride!
A lot of people try to avoid the platform extender lol ...
Thanks for the ride you given me. Love you. From Lake Mary Florida and SunRail Train 🚆 😀 😎
Nice to see this in comparison to the Tri-Rail (which I have taken)!
Nice video
Wow what a modern style train. I hope to ride one when I come to Florida next. Great video man
Welcome to Miami, bro.
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Great video! Keep it up!
Lot of people don’t wear the mask correct/at all…
@Cheng Wong check out the passengers. Neither of the male passengers wear their mask the way they should.
@@swaggernaut masks are required on public transit but it’s Florida soooooo
They do the same thing in the airport.
The Brightline train reminds me of the bullet trains in Japan.
It will still be cheaper to fly to Orlando on Southwest then to take the Brightline when the Orlando service begins next year. . Premium tickets will be over $150 each way , Southwest will get you to Orlando in 45 minutes for under $100 each way , Sometimes As Low as $79 each way on sale.
Also remember that unless you get tickets way in advance MIA to MCO will be way more expensive.
You’re comparing premium Brightline tickets to airline tickets instead of regular economy Brightland tickets. Also during the summer months in Florida there are tremendous thunderstorms often in the afternoon which can delay flights and also reroute flights.
It happened to me once and my flight instead of departing in late morning it was three hours or more later because of a thunderstorm and my flight landed in a different city instead of Orlando so we could not take it until the skies are cleared and it could come from the city at landed in instead.
Hi Ken, did you test the Wi-Fi service on the train? How was the cell reception on the train? It looks very nice and I would consider taking it because the metro rail and metromover connect to it. Would you use it over Tri rail in the future? By the way, Ft Lauderdale is planning to build a metromover style monorail that would go to the airport and seaport. Should be nice getting to FLL from Miami whenever it opens. Thanks for the great videos.
I have ridden Brightline several times and the WiFi is excellent and the cell service is the same as in a car.
@@rickmartinez3781 Thank you. Good to know.
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5:09 - "2 feet at least"
That gap between the train and the platform is nowhere near 2 feet. It's only slight bigger than that man's foot at 5:12.
Great video))
nice ride!
I am going to take this train from West Palm Beach to Miami for the first time on Friday.
Quite impressive train….
That train looks amazing. Posh and clean. Very cool drink service. Yay for my favourite Pepsi. Nothing like that here in Australia. They should have it here.
The Brightline is great, but it kills more people than any other train in the country. Usually because the crazy stupid South Florida drivers go around the pike and try to beat the train crossing the track.
shame. Wonder how they can plan around the stupidity of people.
But to be fair... I remember driving in Miami and accidentally getting kind of stuck on a railroad for the first time ever. The traffic light sort of tricked me, I was stressed for a good minute thinking I was going to have my car totaled. But this never happened in other states, that particular crossing was just very weird.
As it was my first time there I didn't know that after the crossing there was only room for one or two cars. I moved just as they moved while we had the green but apparently it goes from green to red quickly and it got me stuck. I blame poor design on that particular crossing but for others idk.
Brightline has not killed anyone. People are dying by illegally and dangerously passing around the railroad track guards and then being struck by a Brightline train. It’s the driver’s or pedestrian’s fault in every case.
The train does not kill people and neither do the freight trains, it’s the people that make the choice to go around the barriers..
Almost realtable to capitol corridor here in CA. Trains get delayed up to 1 hr just because people decide to walk on the train tracks when it is coming
Thank u for making this video, I was wondering if there was a train that went to Miami from Lauderdale!!!!
Hi Ken. I can how many miles is it between the two cities
Looking forward to when I can take it to my Orlando!!!! Take the last day train to Brixton on I’ll meet you at the station🎵🎵🎵 A very old Beatles song
Oops, I meant to write in and I’ll meet you at the station. Also meant to write, to Orlando. This TH-cam doesn’t let me edit for some reason??
They need a another station between : WPB to orlando ( like Treasure coast or Brevard county )
Instead of building Brightline from Miami to Tampa, why don't they just connect it with SunRail in central Florida? Instead of Amtrak detouring from Orlando for Tampa passengers and then reversing on the same tracks, why not just make a free connection from Amtrak to whoever is going to be that central Florida line?
BTW AK, can you take your bike on Brightline?
There are bike racks on Brightline
Hope to see a trip in the daytime please
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Wow, that is some fancy travel. Not in Kansas anymore...
How close is the train station to the cruise terminal?
Another great video. No need to be using a mask in 2022
This is NOT High Speed Rail.
Not yet, but it will be once construction is finished it will go 125 miles per hour on certain sections of track on it route
@@Acehitman369 There is not a specific speed that defines HSR but generally the train has to go at least at 150m/h.
That still isn´t High Speed Rail.
@@Acehitman369
Isn’t 125mph still too slow to be considered high speed? Should it be at least 186mph (300kmh)?
I would even take 150mph
@@jam6636 125 mph is the speed of a normal IC train. So personally I agree and think HSR starts at 155 mph and up, but the UIC, the international union of railways, defines HSR as a minimum speed of 125mph. (I don’t know what the UIC is exactly, but this is what I found in the Internet.)
@@-cirad- good, thanks for the information.
The train is soo fast and comfy. Hope someday I can try the train.
Lol, it's literally a conventional 79mph train. The exact same Amtrak is using.
God I wish I had that here in the northeast.
Amtrak ordered the exact same locomotives and cars. So yeah, you'll actually be getting them soon.
Note: Brightline is not a government run rail service. It is a corporate enterprise backed by the operator of Virgin Air.
No, not true! Virgin used to own part of Brightline but they decided to get out of the deal. That’s just a broad generalization of the facts.
Actually, it's still heavily subsidized both by the state and the Feds. Brightline routinely asks for and receives subsidies. Plus their whole business model relies on real estate sales to make profit not actual train tickets. And guess who gave them the special land authorizations that they effectively resell for profit. Yep, the state of Florida.
Don't fall for the marketing. It's a nice train that Brightline runs at a loss to sell condos. They will eventually sell the last one and abandon the train. Enjoy the nice choo-choo while it lasts!
on how many people you have been commenting. you must have been living under a rock, as most of the money comes from the fortress investment group. and yes they recieve public and government funding, also florida gave brightline some funding. didnt you know that the economy from california went up with 2 billion since this train is driving. That brightline is running at a loss is what you made up, and is actually not the case at all. :) dream on
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I hope it goes eventually it goes to Naples Florida and Florida keys.
not high speed
"high speed rail" 😆
It's a matter of time until graffiti and dirt mess it up
How is that possible when the train gets parked inside the " base camp " and maintainence facilitys?