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No surprise? Of course we were expecting this. A few years ago, our Men's club had a SunRail hype artist make a presentation that was full of hope and other BS. When the Q&A began, one of the questions was where did they get their expected ridership numbers from? The young smart ass said that the number would start out small but would eventually surprise all of us. That is not an answer. He also suggested that riders would ride bikes to the stations and then jump on the train! Florida heat and rain not in the plan? When asked how such low fares could produce sufficient income to “make this work,” his reply was “this is the government and the government is not in the business to make a profit!”
I felt like vomiting. The saddest realization for us is that “the money, $750 million had already been approved by congress and that we Floridians had to take it or LOSE it!”
Money that the government cannot afford to give, for something that we will not use and can't, in the end afford to pay for.
SunRail sucks, PERIOD. The only PERSON that I know that has used SunRail did so because there was a “free week” at the start of “service.”

My husband has one woman in his office of about 100 people that used it the first week when it was free. But her job requires her to make frequent visits to vendors and subcontractors to check out their facilities, so of course she has to drive to work.