Southeast/Atlantic Spine

Pompano Beach, FL

Stop on the proposed 17,000-mile maglev network. Next stop: Fort Lauderdale, FL (8.1 mi).

About Pompano Beach

Pompano Beach is a city in Broward County, Florida, United States. It is located along the coast of the Atlantic Ocean, just north of Fort Lauderdale and 36 miles north of Miami. The nearby Hillsboro Inlet forms part of the Atlantic Intracoastal Waterway.

Source: Wikipedia summary (full article). Population and facts as published there.

Cost breakdown (proposal-scale estimates — see math)

⚠️ All figures below are parametric estimates scaled from the proposal's own budget ($8.5T ÷ 17,000 mi ≈ $500M per mile), not engineering quotes. Methodology is shown so you can check the math.

Item	Basis	Estimate
Terminal construction	Large city — metro tier (range $2–4B)	$3B
Land acquisition	Regional factor 1.5× on $200M base	$300M
Track: Pompano Beach → Fort Lauderdale	8.1 mi × $500M/mi	$4B
Annual operations (share)	Staffing, power, maintenance	$60M/yr
Stop total (excl. annual ops)		$7.3B

Best terminal location (proposed)

The downtown Pompano station district (Tri-Rail). Downtown Pompano's Tri-Rail station anchors a beach city investing heavily in downtown redevelopment, with the beach minutes east. The terminal would serve the coastal corridor's commuters and tourists between West Palm Beach and Fort Lauderdale.

Before / after

Before and after aerial mock-up of the proposed maglev terminal at Pompano Beach, FL

Aerial mock-up (illustrative, not an engineering rendering). Left: the proposed site today. Right: with the maglev terminal.

🛤️ Infill stops toward Fort Lauderdale: the proposal envisions more stops than cities — smaller stations between majors. Plausible infills on this leg:

Deerfield Beach, FL — coastal city on the corridor.
Lighthouse Point, FL — residential waterfront city.
Hillsboro Beach, FL — barrier-island community.

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