Orlando Transit

[Jernigan]

DOT has just recently kicked off the US 441 study. Next summer they should have an idea of what level of transit service they will look to run on or along 441 from Orlando through Apopka to the Golden Triangle and potentially on towards Leesburg and the Villages.

LYNX is also kicking off a SR50/UCF Connector exploring the same options.

To get a better idea of what these studies look like, you could check out the website of the US192 study which is midway through the process. - www.us192study.com

[Jernigan]

Another article about carshare following the City's approval of an agreement with FDOT on Monday.

http://www.cfnews13.com/content/news/cfnews13/news/article.html/content/news/articles/cfn/2013/5/22/cars_to_rent_for_a_f.html

What say you guys about hourly car rental coming to downtown? The idea is that people who could potentially use SunRail (or LYNX, carpool, etc) to get downtown have one less reason to not drive alone to work.

As a downtown-area resident that lives along a bus line, it's things like this that get me excited about potentially being car free overall at one point - if not being a 1-car family instead of 2 or 2 instead of 3 etc.

[Casselberry_Knight]

I-4 without cars? A pretty cool concept on the city's Envision 2040 site (which I found courtesy of the Daily City).

 

http://cityoforlando.mindmixer.com/envision-2040-people-s-choice-award/click-to-view-entry-109

 

By 2040 we'll have flying cars, right???

[Jernigan]

Expect to hear who Orlando's carshare vendor will be on Monday

[Bungalower-MattBroffman]

Expect to hear who Orlando's carshare vendor will be on Monday

 Have you heard anything?

[Jernigan]

Sorry, that's Monday, August 5th

[Jernigan]

The announcement will end up being tomorrow, August 6th. Very exciting indeed, I'm sure the silence here is just suspense

[Bungalower-MattBroffman]

It will be Hertz 24/7. Posted the details Bungalower: http://bungalower.com/?p=276

 

Can't wait for it to start.

[Bungalower-MattBroffman]

Update on two LYMMO projects:

Current LYMMO bus shelter restoration

East-West LYMMO Expansion Update

[Bungalower-MattBroffman]

SunCyle/CycleHop won the Orland Bike Share Bid....We'll see bike rentals starting in time for SunRail but more likely sooner.

[prahaboheme]

Fantastic opportunity for a local company.  Hopefully they have the bones to float a successful bike sharing program.

[Jernigan]

Ribbon cutting for carshare is taking place Thursday at 2PM at the carshare location on Central and Hughey. Here is a link to the facebook invite:

https://www.facebook.com/events/605892329463617/?ref=2&ref_dashboard_filter=upcoming

[Jernigan]

LYMMO line names unveiled - Orange, Lime and Grapefruit.

I suppose when my Downtown South expansion happens I should look forward to the Lemon Line

[James ORL]

LYMMO line names unveiled - Orange, Lime and Grapefruit.

I suppose when my Downtown South expansion happens I should look forward to the Lemon Line

A couple more lines and we'll have a fruit cocktail.

[uncreativeusername]

I know there is an airport thread too, but I find the intermodal connection aspects of this the most interesting.  My apologies if this report has already been posted somewhere else...

 

 

http://www.orlandoairports.net/meetings/public/board/20131002_masterplan.pdf

[Jernigan]

LYMMOs new Grapefruit Line (east/west) has an anticipated start date of April

[smileguy]

As far as I can tell, the eastern part of the line seems ready to go - street/lane striping, shelters, etc.  Has anyone checked out the West side? 

[Jernigan]

East-West will begin with April service changes for LYNX.

[AndyPok1]

As far as I can tell, the eastern part of the line seems ready to go - street/lane striping, shelters, etc.  Has anyone checked out the West side? 

 

I went for a run on Sunday around most of the route.  However, I turned down Parramore instead of continuing to Westmoreland.  Central, South, and Terry were done.  Church Street is all torn up.  There's a shelter done at Central/Division and South/Division, but only Pole Signs are Central/Parramore and Church/Parramore (presumably since ones will be built with the Soccer Stadium).

 

Overall, looks really good though.

[OrlandoMagicLions]

They will have a stop on Church Street next to City View Apartments on Church Street and Terry (towards parramore right in front of the new soccer stadium entrance). They are working on it right now. They also widened the sidewalks and are putting up lights finally to make the area more pedestrian friendly.

[alex]

Kind of off-topic, but they've just released some renderings of Miami's All Aboard Florida TOD complex.  Looks pretty intense: All Aboard Florida Releases Downtown Miami Station Renderings

[jrs2]

Kind of off-topic, but they've just released some renderings of Miami's All Aboard Florida TOD complex.  Looks pretty intense: All Aboard Florida Releases Downtown Miami Station Renderings

it is off topic, but, damn.  that is really awesome.  I wonder how much of that is being funded by FEC.

[shardoon]

we can only dream that something like this would be completed in downtown.....but miami is on another level. 

 

on a consolation, i think the airport location that we have will have a huge impact for orlando as well. there is no way ft lauderdale or west palm beach will have anything resembling miami. however, the OIA location is spearheading the huge intermodal center south of the airport. without AAF, this would be years, if not decades away. since AAF is here, the airport pushed to get this built. it will be a lot easier for sunrail to have a spur to the airport if a station is actually built already, which AAF triggered. this is also going to precursor the long stalled airport expansion. 

[jrs2]

we can only dream that something like this would be completed in downtown.....but miami is on another level. 

 

on a consolation, i think the airport location that we have will have a huge impact for orlando as well. there is no way ft lauderdale or west palm beach will have anything resembling miami. however, the OIA location is spearheading the huge intermodal center south of the airport. without AAF, this would be years, if not decades away. since AAF is here, the airport pushed to get this built. it will be a lot easier for sunrail to have a spur to the airport if a station is actually built already, which AAF triggered. this is also going to precursor the long stalled airport expansion. 

exactly!  and without the AAF proposal, I don't know how Maglev would even be able to dock at OIA either; hence, that proposal would have been defunct as well- unless as a backup they would've just gone to SLR instead, but I don't think so.

[gibby]

I think the airport location for AAF is a tragedy.  Having our main transportation hub located in a field 40 minutes south of town just seems crazy to me.  It should obviously continue into downtown Orlando for an additional stop.  Our central bus station is in downtown Orlando.