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A couple of things are getting proposed as well by Brightline in order to get a Sunrail connection to the airport. Brightline is happy to split construction costs or lease the line to allow Sunrail to connect to the airport. It would share tracks but have entirely separate stations to deal with...

My understanding is they're splitting it into a different phase... Brightline wants the MCO-Disney route up by 2025 but Tampa will be a couple years later. I imagine they'll try to build it as at the same time as I-4 beyond maybe, but a lot of the route already had bridges raised and...

Sams Club/Walmart has the person who scans the QR code at the door do a quick count of the number of items to make sure that matches up, and also look for any high value items or pick at least one random item and scan the barcode on that to make sure it matches up. I used to hate going to those...

Can someone come up with a reasonable solution to screwing people who stay at one of the Gondola resorts by making them board one gondola, then disembark the first one, and then wait in line and board another one, go to reach the park? And expecting people to do that without air conditioning...

Oversized baggage will need to be checked. I imagine they will offer to bring in from you checking it at the airport straight to your room if you desire, making it easier then your current situation, if you're willing to be separated from it. Brightline already has all digital boarding passes...

My understanding is they're looking at between 17-20 trains per day. Perhaps even a couple extra for the MCO-Disney segment if it replaces DME. It is not feasible to build at 3-5 trains per day. It must be more convenient then air and vehicle travel, and it won't be without a lot of trips per...

The latest proposal is for new tracks to be built in the OUC ROW that both Sunrail and Brightline would share. The Meadow Woods Brightline station would be eliminated and replaced by a completely new East-West Sunrail route, where Sunrail would be allowed to operate on Brightline tracks between...

Where has Brightline said they wouldn't advertise going between MCO and WDW? They've specifically said the opposite in the past... I've heard quite a while ago that the options being explored were to replace Magical Express with the Brightline train. Brightline was claiming to Disney they could...

Some slight non-movement on this topic: Brightline and FDOT/CFX/other entities extended their negotiation period for an additional 90 days before trying to come to an agreement. FDOT says Brightline's current plans were inadequate for them to figure out how Brightline's plans for the corridor...

Sunrail covers a fairly wide area, and often times these trains aren't about making it no driving, but much less driving. It may make sense for a local to drive to a Sunrail station, transfer to Virgin, to avoid driving and paying for parking and dealing with the I-4/Disney traffic. We'll have...

Yeah, if you read more carefully, this ensures that Virgin would NOT do that. The OLD HSR proposal DID have a stop at the convention center/I Drive, which Disney very vocally hated, and as much as publicly stated they would replace DME with HSR ONLY IF the train was routed along 417 and not I-4...

While its possible some other company does it (as has already been proposed but was unable to strike a deal with the airport), this will prevent it from being Virgin, and prevent any possibility of the same train hitting anything on the I-Drive corridor, so even if someone does pull off a train...

It will not be cheaper, but it could provide Disney more traffic, and more room reservations, and a way to keep more people on site by keeping people's cars away and keeping them away from rentals. A lot of international tourists taking longer vacations like to do Miami+Disney, this system...

There are ongoing negotiations for this to replace DME, and if you stay in an on site Disney hotel it may be free for a ticket from MCO, much like DME. It would also include full luggage service, just like DME. There is also the possibility for express Disney trains that bypass the Sunrail stop...

There's proposed to be 3 stops in Orlando, the Meadow Wood Sunrail transfer station is to connect this train for our local transit system. Sunrail goes downtown and to Winter Park, which is likely where tourists wanting to explore the local Orlando spots will want to go. The only big missing...

Brightline is supposed to be grade separated from Cocoa to Tampa, so there should be hopefully no opportunities for people to be stupid and cause a train crash. I believe grade separation is required for 125mph, and the max without it is 110mph.

Its a relatively short trip, so probably not for a "meaningful" time, the average speed is supposed to be about 60mph/20 minutes trip time along that portion of the route. The top speed is supposed to be 125mph but that obviously can't be for very long....

There is also a Sunrail transfer station proposed that will provide a bunch of drop offs along I-4, including downtown, to make that pickup process easier.

The mass transit systems generally lose money for the same reason nearly all roads lose money: we decided we want to subsidize travel as a country. We always need to use sales tax dollars, property taxes, and other revenue streams on top of the gas tax to subsidize our road and their operations...

I imagine the taxi/uber/lyft people will win out of this is built and won't fight against it as someone who doesn't rent a car is more likely to use their services throughout their stay. Mears and the rental car companies are the ones who will fight this. (They're the ones who fought maglev to...