1989: The Opening of a Commuter Rail Station in Florida is Celebrated with a Burst-Through Banner and Plenty of Balloons

December 18, 1989

A commuter rail station in southeastern Florida’s city of Boynton Beach was officially opened. This station is part of Tri-Rail, an 80-mile (128.7-kilometer)-long commuter rail system serving the Miami metropolitan area and managed by the South Florida Regional Transportation Authority. The line on which Tri-Rail’s trains operate is owned by the Florida Department of Transportation.

The public debut of Boynton Beach station on a Monday morning was recounted by Debra L. Wallace in the next day’s edition of the Fort Lauderdale-based South Florida Sun Sentinel.  “A day of adventure on the Tri-Rail awaited 7-year-old Christopher Kohl and his Aunt Mary on Monday,” reported Wallace in her article. “Clutching a fistful of multicolored balloons, a wide-eyed Christopher watched the 8:15 a.m. train burst through a banner to signify the opening of the 15^th and last station in the first phase of the year old Tri-Rail commuter system.”

Boynton Beach station also serves as a connection for Palm Tran, a public transit bus system in that region of the Sunshine State. The accompanying photo of this station, which was remodeled in 2003, was taken in 2016.

Photo Credit: WilliamJE (licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution-Share Alike 4.0 International license at https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/deed.en)

For more information on the South Florida Regional Transportation Authority, please check out . https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/South_Florida_Regional_Transportation_Authority