I about ready to retire from my job and since I do not drive I have questions about how I will get around to do shopping and to go to the theme parks. Do most Florida towns offer public transportation by buses to shopping centers? I know Amtrak travel to Orlando and other major cities in florida but do orlando offer public transportation to disney? To me taxi cab is way to expensive to use even on a yearly basic. Preplanning about moving and retireing to florida as compare staying here in New England states and paying higher taxes and having public transport to get around is firstmost important to me.
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Question about FL / Orlando Public transportation
- Thread starter dvitali
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Orlando and Kissimmee have the Links bus system. You could probably live with that if you found a place to live on the route. Everything in Florida seems to be scattered out pretty far so that it is just easier to get from place to place with a car, but it can be done.
Here on the coast it used to take one of the employees where I worked a couple hours to get to work via the bus system and then a couple hours to get home after work.
Here on the coast it used to take one of the employees where I worked a couple hours to get to work via the bus system and then a couple hours to get home after work.
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Orlando does have the Lynx bus system and it is effective for what it is. Unfortunately, they are doing some cutbacks, due to the fact that Orlando is and will always be a car based metro area. Of course, it never was up to snuff with the MBTA or other public transportation in Northeast cities.
As far as park service, all 3 of Orlando's big parks (Universal, SeaWorld, and Disney) are serviced by Lynx busses. Universal's station is by the parking structures they built, close to CityWalk, the SeaWorld stop is by the hotels from what I've seen, and the Disney stop is at the Ticket and Transportation Center, right next to the Disney buses and a short walk to the Monorail.
Just for reference, it takes me roughly 2 hours to get from UCF to either Universal or Disney on the other side of town using the Lynx system.
As far as park service, all 3 of Orlando's big parks (Universal, SeaWorld, and Disney) are serviced by Lynx busses. Universal's station is by the parking structures they built, close to CityWalk, the SeaWorld stop is by the hotels from what I've seen, and the Disney stop is at the Ticket and Transportation Center, right next to the Disney buses and a short walk to the Monorail.
Just for reference, it takes me roughly 2 hours to get from UCF to either Universal or Disney on the other side of town using the Lynx system.