Editing St. Lucie County, Florida (section)

==Transportation==

===Airports===
* [[St. Lucie County International Airport]], a [[general aviation]] airport. The nearest commercial airports are in [[Melbourne Orlando International Airport|Melbourne]], [[Vero Beach Regional Airport|Vero Beach]], and [[Palm Beach International Airport|West Palm Beach]].

===Major highways===
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* [[Image:I-95.svg|20px]] [[Interstate 95 in Florida|Interstate 95]]
* [[Image:Florida's Turnpike shield.svg|20px]] [[Florida's Turnpike]]
* [[Image:US 1.svg|20px]] [[U.S. Route 1 in Florida|U.S. Route 1]]
* [[Image:Florida A1A.svg|20px]] [[Florida State Road A1A|State Road A1A]]
* [[Image:Florida 68.svg|20px]] [[Florida State Road 68|State Road 68]]
* [[Image:Florida 70.svg|20px]] [[Florida State Road 70|State Road 70]]
* [[Image:Florida 607.svg|20px]] [[Florida State Road 607|State Road 607]]
* [[Image:Florida 608.svg|20px]] [[Florida State Road 608|State Road 608]]
* [[Image:Florida 614.svg|20px]] [[Florida State Road 614|State Road 614]]
* [[Image:Florida 615.svg|20px]] [[Florida State Road 615|State Road 615]]
* [[Image:Florida 713.svg|20px]] [[Florida State Road 713|State Road 713]]
* [[Image:Florida 716.svg|20px]] [[Florida State Road 716|State Road 716]]
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===Public bus service===
St. Lucie County is served by the St. Lucie Transportation Planning Organization (TPO).<ref>{{cite web|url=http://stlucietpo.org|title=St Lucie TPO}}</ref> The TPO is a [[Metropolitan Planning Organization]] (MPO), a federally mandated and federally funded transportation policy-making organization responsible for transportation planning, programming, and financing of State and Federal Transportation Funds for St. Lucie County. The TPO is governed by a TPO Board, which is composed of elected officials, representatives from the St. Lucie County School Board, and representatives from Community Transit, a division of The Council on Aging of St. Lucie, Inc.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.coasl.com/svc_transportation.html|title=COASL: Our Services > Transportation}}</ref> The original bus system started out as a demand response service bus in the 1990s, it only served St. Lucie County. Soon it expanded to a fixed route system, going to predetermined locations along a route. On June 3, 2002, the [[Florida Department of Transportation]] (FDOT) approved funding, expanding the bus service to Martin County, and became the [[Treasure Coast Connector]].<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.treasurecoastconnector.com/routes/|title=Treasure Coast Connector: Routes & Maps}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|url=http://treasurecoastconnector.com|title=Treasure Coast Connector: Home}}</ref>

===Passenger trains===
Until 1968, the [[Florida East Coast Railway]] provided service between Jacksonville and Miami, with stops in Fort Pierce and [[Jensen Beach]]. Until 1963, long-distance passenger trains of the [[Illinois Central]] (the ''[[City of Miami (train)|City of Miami]]'') and the [[Louisville and Nashville]] (the ''[[Dixie Flagler]]'' and the ''[[South Wind (train)|South Wind]]'') from [[Chicago]], and the Atlantic Coast Line from New York City (the ''[[Champion (train)|East Coast Champion]],'' the ''Havana Special,'' and the winter-only ''[[Florida Special (train)|Florida Special]]''), made stops in Fort Pierce.<ref>{{cite journal |title=Florida East Coast Railway |journal=Official Guide of the Railways |publisher=National Railway Publication Company |volume=86 |issue=7 |date=December 1953}}</ref><ref>Bramson, Seth H. ''Speedway to Sunshine: the story of the Florida East Coast Railway'', Boston Mills Press, 2010, p. 227. {{ISBN|9781554077533}}</ref>

In 2023, [[Brightline]], an [[inter-city rail]] route that currently runs between [[MiamiCentral|Miami]] and [[Orlando International Airport Intermodal Terminal|Orlando]], announced that it was looking for a site for a new station on the [[Treasure Coast]].<ref>{{Cite web |date=October 26, 2023 |title=BRIGHTLINE ANNOUNCES PROCESS TO SELECT A TREASURE COAST STATION |url=https://www.gobrightline.com/press-room/2023/brightline-announces-process-to-select-a-treasure-coast-station |access-date=January 6, 2024 |website=www.gobrightline.com |language=en}}</ref> As of 2024, there were no plans to add a station in St. Lucie County. In 2026, a new station, [[Stuart station (Brightline)|Stuart station]], might provide service to [[Stuart, Florida]], just across the [[St. Lucie River]]. However, funding of the station seems precarious.<ref>{{Cite web |last=Califano |first=Caleb |date=2024-09-10 |title=Martin County Commissioners vote to try and continue negotiations with city of Stuart and Brightline |url=https://www.wpbf.com/article/martin-county-brightline-vote-stuart-train-florida/62136672 |access-date=2024-09-10 |website=WPBF |language=en}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web |last=Burbank |first=Keith |date=2024-09-10 |title=Martin County will try to try to salvage deal for a Brightline station in downtown Stuart |url=https://www.tcpalm.com/story/news/local/martin-county/2024/09/10/vote-in-martin-county-aims-to-try-to-save-brightline-station-in-stuart/75156512007/ |access-date=2024-09-10 |website=Treasure Coast |language=en-US}}</ref>