Pompano Beach station
SFRTA Tri-Rail commuter rail station | |||||||||||||
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Location | 3491 Northwest Eighth Avenue Pompano Beach, Florida | ||||||||||||
Coordinates | 26°16′21″N 80°08′05″W / 26.272452°N 80.134624°W | ||||||||||||
Line(s) | South Florida Rail Corridor | ||||||||||||
Platforms | 2 side platforms | ||||||||||||
Tracks | 2 | ||||||||||||
Connections | Broward County Transit: 34 | ||||||||||||
Construction | |||||||||||||
Parking | Yes | ||||||||||||
Bicycle facilities | Yes | ||||||||||||
Accessible | Yes | ||||||||||||
Other information | |||||||||||||
Fare zone | 3 | ||||||||||||
History | |||||||||||||
Opened | January 9, 1989 | ||||||||||||
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Pompano Beach is a Tri-Rail commuter rail station in Pompano Beach, Florida, United States. With 109,000 passengers in the first six months of 2011, it is the 10th-busiest Tri-Rail station.[1] In 2015, the station had about 800 weekday riders.[2]
The Pompano Beach station is located at Northwest Eighth Avenue and 35th Street, just southeast of the intersection of
Reconstruction
In 2011, Tri-Rail received a $5.7 million grant to renovate Pompano Beach as an environmentally sustainable station, collecting more than 100% of its energy demand through solar power, with the excess to be put on the grid. Construction was to have started in spring 2012 and finished by May 2013,[1] but the project fell through. In December 2014, Tri-Rail's governing board awarded a $40 million contract to Gulf Building to build a new headquarters, parking garage and station on the site of the Pompano Beach stop and on April 17, 2015, the South Florida Sun-Sentinel reported that groundbreaking was to take place later in the month. The upgrades were scheduled for completion in summer 2016.[3] The renovation and construction of the 450-space garage caused a parking crunch at the station where only 39 spots remained.[2]
Station layout
The station has two side platforms. A surface parking lot is located west of the southbound platform, while a parking garage and the SFRTA headquarters are east of the northbound platform.
References
- ^ a b Michael Turnbell (November 27, 2011). "New Pompano Beach Tri-Rail station will be solar-powered". Sun Sentinel. Retrieved October 27, 2016.
- ^ a b Michael Turnbell (May 29, 2015). "Parking scarce as Pompano Tri-Rail station gets upgrade". Sun Sentinel. Retrieved October 27, 2016.
- ^ Michael Turnbell (April 17, 2015). "Tri-Rail's Pompano Station going green". Sun Sentinel. Retrieved October 27, 2016.
External links
- Media related to Pompano Beach train station at Wikimedia Commons
- South Florida Regional Transportation Authority - Pompano Beach station
- Station from 33rd Street from Google Maps Street View