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Florida's Brightline passenger rail as an opportunity to rearticulate and extend transit service in cities like Orlando

Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

They started planning in 2012, construction in 2014, and opened the first stations in South Florida in 2018. My friend says there is no good public transportation from the airport to the city's major hotels. Lots of deaths. But it's quite impressive in two ways. It's being built relatively quickly.

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More remonstration about the molasses of change: Transit planning, Baltimore County, Maryland and Towson

Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

For what it's worth, over the past ten years, the regional recommendations for transit were incredibly paltry and stunted, in part because the Republican Governor, Larry Hogan, had negative interest in transit, except for maglev. -- " Small update: Transit agenda for Greater Baltimore ," 2021- It appears that's changing.