Tri-Rail – Fort Lauderdale Station

Tri rail is a great way to travel. This is the closest stop to my home so I have taken it north and south. Show up early so you have enough time to use ticket kiosk. Takes about two minutes if no line. You can’t buy ticket in the train. If you are caught without a ticket I hear it’s a $ 25 fine. They need to get an online ticket app and then I would give them 5 stars! Train is clean and peaceful. There is plenty of Parking at this station… you can’t leave car overnight. You can get tri rail team to drop you by las olas for free or city bus can take you places.

This is a busy station and the security personnel here are doing a great job in a bad area of town. The parking lot does not have security and rarely cars have been broken in to. Do not walk past the north lot as there is a large span next to the sidewalk under the bridge that is populated by homeless people. The catwalk across the tracks frequently smells of urine on the track 2 side. This is also where Amtrak stops and several buses plus free Trirail shuttles that go downtown and down 17^th street causeway toward the 17^th at causeway bridge are here. The shuttles are nice. Check the Trirail app for train delays and for shuttle and route info or call their customer service line. They give very updated train status as they have the ability to see where the train is.

This stop is always my favorite as it has many connections to different venues in Fort Lauderdale. I usually pass right through this stop on my way to work or home. The terminal is very clean with easy to park spaces right at the terminal.

So great when I find new places and new ways to get around. This was kind of hard to get to though but overall a nice alternative to driving. I’m from New Jersey and used to taking the subway to get around New York for the 4 years I lived there. It was very convenient and mostly mindless. Its nice to have something down here in Florida to get from Miami to Fort Lauderdale to Deerfield Beech To Boca to West Palm Beach and other stops. It’s a two story train with plenty of seating. Although the company on board can get a little interesting it was still a pleasant ride. We paid $ 5 for an all day pass card and were able to go round trip from Fort Lauderdale to West Palm Beach which was a 1 hr trip both ways.

Nothing exciting here — point A to point B — left my bag on the train a couple wells ago, got the bag back… minus my android charger. Reported it to one of the officers on at the stop — he told me he remembered me, but not my bag… ask if I was sure it was my bag. Too much writing for Unilocal to get into that conversation… #trirail