JR Tokai targets Florida bullet train deal

Reuters ^ | Mon Jan 25, 2010 | Nobuhiro Kubo

[Road Warrior ‘04]

It takes an hour or so to drive from Orlando to Tampa, big deal. Tell me how many people are going to fork over $$$ so they can get there faster on a train, and then be stuck in Orlando/Tampa w/out a car, forcing them to rent one (neither Orlando or Tampa has any decent mass transit.) It just doesn’t make sense...what a waste.

Not to mention the gazillion dollars that have been spent to take I-4 from a 4-lane road (two lanes each way) to 8 lanes in the metro areas of Tampa and Orlando and 6 lanes for the rest of the area in between.

[NonValueAdded]

It takes an hour or so to drive from Orlando to Tampa, big deal. Tell me how many people are going to fork over $$$ so they can get there faster on a train, and then be stuck in Orlando/Tampa w/out a car, forcing them to rent one (neither Orlando or Tampa has any decent mass transit.) It just doesn’t make sense...what a waste.

What, you don't want to take a couple of buses and dodge the daily downpour to take 2x the amount of time the train saved you just to do the last few miles to your destination? That's not very patriotic of you.

[sport]

Plus it will take a 100 years to get it operating.