Sunrail changing urban Orlando right before our eyes

[thelakelander]

Good for Orlando.  Maybe, we'll get on board locally some day.

Supporting SunRail

To make SunRail a success, planners are working to connect the commuter-rail line to the high-speed-rail line that will link Orlando with Tampa.

They're also devising ways for Lynx to serve those SunRail passengers who will need bus service after taking the train.

Good and good again.

Orlando rightly isn't stopping there, however. Home to four of what will be 17 SunRail stations, the city's busy crafting a program that would let people rent bicycles or cars after SunRail drops them at Florida Hospital, the Lynx Central Station, Church Street and the Amtrak Station. It's improving paths and hopes to build an urban trail so SunRail's riders won't mind strolling a few blocks to their final downtown destination. And it might even find the means to expand its downtown Lymmo circulator service.

Each effort sounds promising. For an area unaccustomed to mass transit, for commuter rail to succeed, anything that can enhance SunRail is welcome.

http://www.orlandosentinel.com/news/traffic/os-ed-cycling-sunrail-090910-20100908,0,7515801.story

[CS Foltz]

All I have to say is............lucky sumbitches! I don't look for JTA to get with the program in this century myself, only change will come when the suckers in charge ain't in charge anymore!

[Ocklawaha]

Remember that JTA gave away fried chicken when they took the dog and pony show up in the northwest side of town. Hey boyz, can't get much more creative then that! I can see it now, "THE CHICKEN TRAIN," hey and we even have a theme song.

http://ilike.myspacecdn.com/play#Ozark+Mountain+Daredevils:Chicken+Train:1867003:s38764451.10511356.17988953.0.2.12%2Cstd_ca17181f34a741c8bc55484224e9e1f7

OCKLAWAHA

[JeffreyS]

If envy isn't attractive I better call it a night.