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All Aboard Florida wins OK to negotiate for highway right of way
Good news so far! This is so exciting!
Wouldn’t it be nice if theFlorida High Speed Rail made it all the way to the City of Orlands by way of Disney World. One of the biggest pains is to get from the airport to Disney World or Downtown. Intergrate the new RR with an upgraded existing infrastructure to get to the highly attractive tourist attractions and downtown Orlando.
I can’t see taking a plane to Orlando and transfing to the train to go to South Florida since many of those cities have air service at West Palm Beach and Ft. Lauderdale. I fly to Orlando to get to Disney World and its attractions. I only go back to the airport to fly out. The taxi fare is very high to Disney World. It is also cost effective to rent a car at the Orlando Airport and then drive to the attractions in South Florida after visiting Disney World and surrounding attractions. I would Fly out fromSouth Florida without going back to Orlando.
I don’t understand their terminating the High Speed rail Line at the Florida Airport. The rail line to nowhere?
We need more trains in this stat i love trains
Ok, You got a serious effort to offer Higherspeed InterCity Florida Passenger Rail - 110 mph service at min - if you grant the same concession to I-4 right of way from Orlando to Tampa as well as make long range plan to extend SunRail to Jacksonville. Unfortunately for FL, they might have had construction converging in both directions if wasn’t for Gov Scott.
The state would be leap frogging everybody else in terms of transportation infrastructure from HSR, to tolling freeways, to Miami’s intermodal airport connection to expanding/deepening & adding dedicated truck access via tunnelling to Port of Miami container terminal if idealouges would quit fitting such investment
I certainly hope for the best for Henry Posner’s venture in passenger rail. That would be great news.
if they could extrend it out to disneyworld and replace all the buses that take tourist from thiere a to the beaches and the cape canaveral space center. they would get one of the lasrgest capitive markets in the contry.
if they could extrend it out to disneyworld and replace all the buses that take tourist from thiere a to the beaches and the cape canaveral space center. they would get one of the lasrgest capitive markets in the contry.
DR JOHN M IACONO - The Sunrail plan includes a link to Orlando airport; Orlando Airport has been planned, for a while, to be a general transportation hub, and it looks like AAF will be one of the first rail companies to link there, and not the last. This is in large part the reason why the airport is being picked as the terminus - because the airport will be the gateway to the rest of Orlando by the time this project is in motion.
FWIW, AAF also intends, longer term, to include a link to Tampa. It’s unclear where the stations would be for this, but you can see the opportunities for other potential stops along the way.
I live in Florida. Alas I live on the Treasure Coast and there aren’t any plans to provide us with a station with regularly served trains (although Amtrak is considering a once a day service.) But I’m certainly excited by the concept and look forward to being able to visit without wasting five or six hours of my life per visit driving on the Turnpike. Hopefully we’ll get the transport links that’ll make that happen for us in time.
It would be nice if a more direct route from Chicago to Orlando were implimented, instead of the long way around, down the east coast. I can’t imaine their not generating lots of interest on a route such as that.
Florida got whacked the hardest in the last decade with Amtrak route and frequency cutbacks. Loss of the Sunset Limited and the Silver Palm service brought both. Despite that, demand for more publilic transportation is high, even though there have beenservice cuts and fare increases. Florida’s debt problems relating to transportation were created by the addition of its state Toll road authroity. Who likes paying tolls? needless to say the toll roads ripped out part of the state’s agriculture industry, too, making us more dependent on foreign nations for food. TELL THE TOLL HOGS NO! We need another alternative mode, not an alternative road!
If successful, it is a natural for one to think of expansion to Tampa along either I4 or the ACL, and to Jacksonville along the FEC. But for one of the poorest transport- served areas of the state – namely Tallahassee – the state should railbank the old Perry cutoff. It would allow for fairly non-circuitous rail travel from Tallahassee and the panhandle to both Tampa and Orlando, and of course on to Miami from the latter.
All Aboard Florida, combined with the Las Vegas X Train and possible Housatonic Railroad plans, offer a new potential for non-Amtrak intercity rail service. We should support such initiatives especially in Florida where the bitter taste from Governor Scott’s rejection of the true high speed line from Tampa to Orlando still lingers. Disney World Connection-we’ll we have to take first take the steps that are feasible and that is to the airport.
I tend to agree with Dr. john iacono from New York. supposedly there are no plans for the train to stop at any places between West Palm Beach station and Orlando airport. what’s the point of this train if no intermediate passengers are to be carried? why would someone take a train from south Florida to catch a plane at Orlando? there are plenty of flights out of 3 major south Florida airports.
@ROBERT WALLACE - you wouldn’t catch the train to go to Orlando Airport. The Airport’s been chosen because Orlando is making it a transport hub. From Orlando you’ll be able to use SunRail to go to most major locations in and around Orlando.