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City plans mobility upgrades: Fern Street opening, new trolley service and county collaboration
Summary
City officials described an updated downtown mobility plan that includes opening Fern Street as a third downtown entry, a new trolley-style mobility service expected in late 2025–early 2026 and participation in a countywide mobility plan.
West Palm Beach officials said the city is updating its downtown mobility plan, pursuing a multi-year project to open Fern Street as an additional downtown entry, preparing to award a contract for new mobility services and participating in a countywide mobility plan to address traffic.
“There's only two ways to get into downtown, Okeechobee Boulevard and Banyan. We're looking at a third option which is Fern Street,” Armando Fauna, Assistant City Administrator for the City of West Palm Beach, said on the City Center podcast. He described preliminary permits for Fern Street and estimated the work as a roughly five‑year project.
Fauna said the city plans to award a contract to a mobility provider and pilot a new service similar to the former downtown trolley that would move people in and out of downtown and within downtown. He projected the new service could begin in the “very late part of this year, early part of 2026” and described it as the city’s largest-ever investment in downtown mobility.
Fauna also said the city is working with Palm Beach County and neighboring municipalities on a countywide mobility plan, noting that traffic patterns cross jurisdictional lines and require coordinated solutions. He framed traffic as the more frequent public concern compared with water.
No formal contract award or specific vendor was named on the podcast; Fauna described the procurement as forthcoming.
