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Orlando has 60+ million visitors a year, and many millions of those are going from the airport to Disney or I-Drive/Universal, so it sounds like its meeting your definition. And there's the convenience factor of being able to sit playing on your phone/laptop instead of dealing with South...

The station likely won't be in the median as in the previous proposal, as all of Brightline's request has been to enter the median AFTER the 417 interchange and have the train located to the west of I-4 in the area of the proposed station. If ya'll remember back, both the 417 and 528 alignments...

Brightline's proposal was publicly released and was accepted by FDOT for negotiations with no other competitors. The timeline has the launch being very end of 2021 for the Orlando stations, and the proposed Disney station (with a statement saying in early negotiations with land owner) being...

They don't charge for standard parking after 6pm (excluding event nights such as HHN), I'd expect a similar policy at the new park to encourage patronage of CityWalk 2.0 at night at least.

This project is proposed entirely in existing ROWs, thats part of the reason it goes to MCO and not downtown.

My experience is treat them respectfully, have fun with them, and they'll return the favor 99% of the time. I've seen some looking a little grumpy, its real easy to turn it around. There is too many mean people out there.

Man, I had no idea we did that. I'll have to let my community's maintenance guy know, whose first job of the day every single day is to fill up a bag full of liter on the road in front of our community and around our community. The number of beer bottles thrown out the windows of moving cars...

Its in the links I provided. Remember, that statistic includes REUSE that is much more environmentally friendly then recycling. The links I provided show that many people reuse a ton of plastic bags, but don't re-use paper bags because of worse strength, difficulty in storage, and more space...

I did provide links to sources. Plastic bags are reused or recycled a little under 50 percent of the time (emphasis on reused as if we eliminate them, people can and do buy new plastic bags to replace them as a single use bag, and typically buy thicker ones when they do that) Wrong. Paper and...

Except the research doesn't really quite match that theory: https://science.howstuffworks.com/environmental/green-science/paper-plastic1.htm This gives both sides of the issue. Only big thing really missing from it is paper bags don't really biodegrade in landfills either, because that process...

Thats not true. Water bottle consumption is still increasing every single year, with no end in site. Disposable plastic bags are typically replaced by single use paper bags that are even harder to reuse and are physically 8+ times the size, and much heavier, needing much more fuel to move them...

Keep in mind reusable bags need to be reused well over 100 times to equal the environmental impact of a plastic bag that does not get reused at all. Most I know, on vacations, don't want to tote the reusable bags back home using their luggage space, or didn't really want them, and they end up in...

The old proposal was for Disney to build a new transit center on property right near where they built the Fourth Laundry Operation a few years ago, on the corner of Osceola Parkway and I4. The train speed between West Palm and Miami is 79mph, to Orlando and beyond it should be 125mph (and...

The buses would have to be timed to leave after the train arrives. The train is on a set schedule, the buses would have to follow that schedule for when leaving the station obviously for it to make any sense. Not that complicated.

So FDOT has set a date of November 8th for any proposals to be due for this line, so that is the likely time we hear the next update, which means our next update will likely be between then and the end of the year.

Like all of the existing people movers at the airport, trains leave every 2 minutes, and the travel time is 2 minutes. The south terminal had 16 airplane gates under construction now as well, scheduled to open before train service begins (and likely more gates before it goes to Tampa where this...

The Orlando Maglev proposal that was private (and did not go to Disney, at least during its initial 2 phases) was only a couple years ago, and was killed by the airport for fear of losing rental car revenue. Interestingly, Brightline already has gotten past the hurdle that killed maglev.... they...

There is no "HSR Bus", it is an integral part of the south terminal, and connected to the airport's people mover system, and as the new plane terminals open, if your flight arrives at the south terminal, you'll have to literally pass by the Brightline to board the same people mover to get to the...

I posted about this in the rumors/news section before I saw this thread, but just yesterday Florida Governor Rick Scott is claiming this project is back alive as a privately funded route, as an extension of the Orlando-Miami Brightline service...

Is the old proposal to have a HSR connection between Orlando and Disney World is back? Back in 2000, Florida came up with a plan to build a HSR between Miami-Orlando-Tampa, with a stop at Disney World, which got killed in 2003, and revived in 2009 only to be killed again. During the previous...