STUART, Fla. — Brightline high speed testing in Florida’s Martin County, which had been scheduled for later this week, has been postponed, the passenger operator said today (Tuesday, June 20).
Testing had been scheduled for Wednesday, June 21, through Friday, June 23, at speeds up to 110 mph through a series of grade crossings, as well as at the St. Lucie River drawbridge. Wednesday, the first day that had been planned for that testing, is also scheduled to be the first day of a new drawbridge schedule that calls for the bridge to be opened twice an hour for up to 15 minutes on each opening [see “Coast Guard to impose twice-hourly bridge openings …,” Trains News Wire, June 9, 2023].
Brightline now says the testing will take place later this month and that it will share further details as they become available.
The ongoing testing of signal and train control systems is in advance of the start of Miami-Orlando service, planned for a yet-to-be-announced date later this summer.
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