Posted on 08/24/2019 11:57:59 AM PDT by Tolerance Sucks Rocks
They will need several tunnels both ways.
That’s what Democrats are about. Free stuff. Course it’s not really free.
RailRunner runs Abuquerque to Santa Fe. At least last I knew anyway.
The problem is that years of hostility to mass transit have made it absurdly expensive or impractical to acquire right of way and retrofit or rebuild infrastructure to accommodate it. The double-track rail line from Orlando to Cocoa will run about 35 miles and cost over 2 billion dollars.
At a projected speed of 125 mph aboard new, upscale rail cars, the trip though will provide enough speed and comfort that it is easy to imagine professionals and executives living in south Orlando and commuting to the Cape -- assuming that a station in Cocoa gets built.
Who cares. The taxpayers are paying. Sarc
They’ve been studying I-70 traffic for 35-years now.
Are you talking about the bridge at the north end of I-81? (And while they’re at it, why don’t they twin the bridge a few miles south as well? It’s one of the two last remaining sections of two-lane interstate highway in America.)
Don’t worry. All the transplanted Yankees will demand it. It will get done if it’s feasible, and maybe even if it’s NOT, just like in the NE and Mid-Atlantic.
In the Central Florida area, the business community and a local GOP House Transportation Committee Chairman provided the key political support that established the local commuter train known as SunRail. Running North-South and roughly parallel to the I-4 corridor, SunRail is seen by major employers as providing essential transportation for low wage and non-driving employees. Professionals and executives like my two brothers also sometimes ride SunRail to get a break from battling traffic to and from work.
Without major advances in technology though it is hard to imagine Orlando ever getting an area-wide mass transit system. The intensity of development puts the costs for right of way and construction out of reach. Notably, SunRail relies on a long-existing freight rail line, while the Brightline track to Deltona is being built mostly on vacant land. Perhaps a light elevated system like Musk's Hyperloop will change the equation.
I don’t really disdain it so much as I abhor expensive rail projects when most of this crap could be solved with buses and rideshare apps like Uber.
The projects I refer to either add new capacity to over-congested routes (SunRail) or provide fast, comfortable nonroad ground travel between cities (Brightline). Buses and Uber would not meet the need. As it is, Uber is a good way to get to and from those stations. A few years ago, my brother used Uber that way and took a passenger train from Orlando to Tampa and back for one of Tom Petty’s last concerts.
Why stop at Eagle and not Grand Junction?
THE CANYON, that’s why.
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