Pompano Beach station

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]

Pompano Beach
  
SFRTA Tri-Rail commuter rail station
Train waiting at the station
Location3491 Northwest Eighth Avenue
Pompano Beach, Florida
Coordinates26.272452°N 80.134624°W / 26.272452; -80.134624
Line(s)South Florida Rail Corridor
Platforms2 side platforms
Tracks2
Connections Broward County Transit: 34
Construction
ParkingYes
Bicycle facilitiesYes
Disabled accessYes
Other information
Fare zone3
History
OpenedJanuary 9, 1989
Services
Preceding station Tri-Rail Following station
Cypress Creek
toward Miami Airport
 Tri-Rail Deerfield Beach
toward Mangonia Park
Future services
Preceding station Tri-Rail Following station
Cypress Creek
toward Downtown Miami
 Downtown Miami Link
(TBD)
 Deerfield Beach
toward Mangonia Park

The Pompano Beach station is located at Northwest Eighth Avenue and 35th Street, just southeast of the intersection of West Sample Road (SR 834) and Military Trail (SR 809). The station, officially opened to service January 9, 1989, offers parking. Pompano Beach is the last station not to be renovated to include better platform roofs, elevators and a pedestrian bridge over the tracks like most stations underwent during double tracking of the line, but is now being rebuilt from 2015 to 2016.

Reconstruction
November 2015, carpark and SFRTA headquarter construction visible to the right.

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 are 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.

M Mezzanine Crossover between platforms
P
Platform level
Side platform
Track 1 ←      Tri-Rail toward Miami Airport (Cypress Creek)
←      Silver Service does not stop here
Track 2 ←      Tri-Rail toward Mangonia Park (Deerfield Beach) →
←      Silver Service does not stop here →
Side platform
Street level Entrance/exit, station house, buses, parking

References
  1. Michael Turnbell (November 27, 2011). "New Pompano Beach Tri-Rail station will be solar-powered". Sun Sentinel. Retrieved October 27, 2016.
  2. Michael Turnbell (May 29, 2015). "Parking scarce as Pompano Tri-Rail station gets upgrade". Sun Sentinel. Retrieved October 27, 2016.
  3. Michael Turnbell (April 17, 2015). "Tri-Rail's Pompano Station going green". Sun Sentinel. Retrieved October 27, 2016.
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