AVENTURA, Fla. — Brightline and contractor Lemartec have announced the topping off for the passenger operator’s new Aventura station, which occurred in the early-morning hours of Oct. 8 with the placement of a 131-foot-long pedestrian skybridge over the Harriet Tubman Highway (formerly West Dixie Highway) and the double-track Florida East Coast Railway main line used by Brightline.
Placement of the skybridge completes vertical construction and connects the station building to its platform.
“This topping off is a testament of our team’s dedication to bring the vision of connectivity to the Northeast Corridor,” Brightline president Patrick Goddard said in a press release. “Our partners at Miami-Dade County were an integral part of making this station a reality and bringing enhanced access to area residents.”
The station project is on a 3.5-acre site and includes a station building of 34,000 square feet with an 860-foot center platform, an adjacent 240-space parking lot, and a bus drop off for Miami-Dade Transit passengers.
Brightline expects to begin service to Aventura before the end of the year, with frequent express operations to and from Brightline’s downtown MiamiCentral station. Travel time between MiamiCentral and Aventura will be about 15 minutes.
