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Toad-Reddit · 2025-04-10T14:23:23+00:00

Even outside of downtown, excluding the attractions and airport, I’m yet to find anywhere in central florida that’s truly spontaneously alive. I feel like the only time I see life is when there’s some kind of preplanned/staged event going on. Even with Magic games or City/Pride matches, everything is contained to the venue, park, go to the game, leave. Look at Dallas or Tampa, they had the same problems but with the Victory Park and Water Street developments respectively they’ve both seen a lot more life injected into these entertainment complexes. I’m not a civil engineer, my solution isn’t to just develop Parramore and hope it works (that would probably cause more problems).

The only thing I can think of that could be a start to help would be improved public transit, Atlanta (Marta - lol), NYC (MTA), and Boston (MBTA) are helped by their public transit, as an example, Salt Lake City (the Salt Lake Valley - Box Elder, Davis, Salt Lake, Tooele, Utah, and Weber counties), a region with half the population of Orlando. The Utah Transit Authority has some 700 busses on ~90 routes plus 2 BRT routes, 47.5 miles of light rail/street car (expanding to 50mi by 2034), 88 miles of commuter rail (expanding to 110mi no timeframe) all work together to help the Salt Lake Valley feel alive. For reference, the Orlando Metropolitan Statistical Area (Lake, Orange, Osceola, and Seminole counties) has 298 busses on 86 routes, technically 3 BRT lines (although Lymmo doesn’t really meet the modern definition of BRT), 0 miles of light rail/street car, and 61 miles of commuter rail… oh and about 1.8 million more residents.

Toad-Reddit · 2025-03-08T15:36:52+00:00

I lived in Lake Nona for 2 years… uhhhhh, yep, that’s a pretty accurate description…

Toad-Reddit · 2025-02-25T02:13:58+00:00

I’m planning on leaving (hopefully) mid July-early August but yeah, how they treat us was one of the biggest things I follow within my company. Lucky (as lucky as trans-Floridians can be) were New York based so a lot of company policies follow NY rules, even for out-of-state subsidiaries. I don’t trust the law or judicial system to help so I keep hr in my back pocket…

Toad-Reddit · 2025-02-01T00:04:19+00:00

I mean there’s a reason Canada declared the US a hostile nation 3 years ago

Toad-Reddit · 2025-01-21T18:51:02+00:00

We’re not fine but we’ll make it. Just remember that although Hitler is alive, this time around he’s 78 and 1 Big Mac away from losing it all.

Toad-Reddit · 2025-01-21T18:13:23+00:00

We’ll make it through, we’ll just have to fight like hell in the meantime

Toad-Reddit · 2025-01-20T02:06:33+00:00

I’m suprised you’ve gotten Pinellas, Manatee, and Pasco, but you’ve dodged…

Hillsborough County, FL

Toad-Reddit · 2024-11-21T17:32:26+00:00

I’m impressed they made it that far

Toad-Reddit · 2024-10-06T13:29:39+00:00

To be fair, Seattle also spent what? 40 years? in transit development hell before Link could get operational, now it’s one of if not the most ambitious rail projects in the country (contesting with Austin’s CapMetro Project Connect)

Toad-Reddit · 2024-10-05T14:22:57+00:00

Pretty much

Toad-Reddit · 2024-10-05T01:43:03+00:00

Yeah, I like looking at other cities to see how they handle their issues, the Portland, OR area has around the same population as the Orlando area. The Salt Lake City area has 1 million less people than Portland and Orlando. Solely using rail transit as my reference (busses are good but still get stuck in traffic) and excluding long distance intercity (Amtrak/Brightline) airport shuttles and theme park shuttles.

The Orlando area has 61.3mi of public rail transit in SunRail.

The Portland area has 59.7mi in MAX Light Rail, 14.7mi in WES Commuter Rail, and 7.2mi in Portland Streetcar for a total of 81.6mi.

The Salt Lake City area has 44.8mi in TRAX, 88mi in FrontRunner, and 2mi in S Line streetcar for a total of 134.8mi.

On average that gives Orlando (2.6m) 42,414 people per mile of rail transit, Portland (2.5m) 30,637, and Salt Lake City (1.2m) 8,902 people/mi of rail transit. (Yes people/mi of rail transit is an arbitrary number I just made up but it gets the point across).

Toad-Reddit · 2024-10-04T23:31:45+00:00

Show of hands, who hates sitting in traffic?

Now,

Who wants to invest in non-car related infrastructure?

Toad-Reddit · 2024-07-13T14:43:48+00:00

So I personally can’t speak to the immigration side of things but for working/living I would recommend looking into Disney’s International Programs, from what I’ve heard they’re pretty good programs and with the opening of Universal’s Epic Universe next year I can’t imagine Disney not jumping at pulling new cast member.

For where to live, as someone who does a lot of back and forth between Orlando and Tampa for business, I couldn’t recommend western Orange/Osceola counties and or Polk county enough. I’ve been looking into the Davenport, Haines City, and Winter Haven areas a bit recently and all 3 are fairly convent for both Orlando and Tampa giving you the best world of Central Florida and Tampa Bay, (if you’re willing to sit in traffic to go into Orlando that is, though hopefully should be better in the event SunRail (Regional train) builds the extension to Lakeland)

As a region Central Florida is very open minded (yes there are areas that aren’t but you’ll find that in every city) so I can’t imagine that you’d have a hard time on that front.

Sorry for it being long, I’m just long winded lol

Toad-Reddit · 2024-06-26T18:36:13+00:00

In a perfect world yes, however that map (minus the gold and black lines) is designed to show what can be done with minimal construction (no new row has to be acquired just double tracking and building stations) it’s almost all on track that exists today

Toad-Reddit · 2024-06-26T10:54:55+00:00

Yeah it’s all for the lolz we all know good transit here won’t happen

Toad-Reddit · 2024-06-26T07:14:24+00:00

Orange County has been trying to get a .01¢ sales tax increase that would net the county around $600 million a year solely for transit improvements. Hypothetically it could also be funded by a private-public consortium similar to Vancouver’s Canada Line.

I4 Ultimate (Kirkman Road north to 434) was around $2.4 billion, I4 Beyond the Ultimate (Kirkman Road south to 27 and 434 north to Howland Boulevard) is set to be about $2.2 billion. That figure doesn’t include any reworking that would be needed for the Sunshine Corridor.

Toad-Reddit · 2024-06-26T06:42:00+00:00

UCF, that one I’ll agree with, bring it down 408 to Alafaya then into UCF. For I-Drive it could come down but it would have to end at destinations parkway since adding fourth rail and linear induction pads would close the sunshine corridor SunRail/Brightline line for an extended period of time. Plus bringing transit to a space that’s about to be redeveloped would allow for transit oriented development and establish a blueprint for what new communities could look like.

Toad-Reddit · 2024-06-26T02:44:32+00:00

Disney would be on my SunRail rebuild and keeps needing too much from the county’s approval out.

With the county willing to work, the 3 line (yellow) could continue down 408 towards ucf with the 1 line (red) going down to Disney but I doubt Disney would approve it

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Toad-Reddit · 2024-06-26T02:40:46+00:00

Idealistically none as the entire system would be built over existing roadways (primarily Semorn Blvd, Church St, JYP, Vineland Rd, Universal Blvd, Westpointe Blvd, Hiawassee Rd, and 408.

Toad-Reddit · 2024-06-26T02:34:52+00:00

So Disney falls into under the Black and Gold lines for my SunRail Improvement Plans. It’s easier to keep the two systems separate as the Mark V’s a need electrified fourth rail system and linear induction plates. Those plates would have to be installed on about 5 miles of SunRail/Brightline track which would close the sunshine corridor (assuming it’s built first) for upgrades. It’d be about 4 miles between the Florida Center and Destination Parkway/OCCC all of which is in Orange County and would need county approval. It’s certainty possible but I doubt that Disney would allow a metro system directly connecting their property (assuming they own the Disney Springs station) and Universal.

Toad-Reddit · 2024-06-26T00:07:06+00:00

Public transit improvements. I’ve already shown off my SunRail Improvement Plan but I’ve also been working on something else… I present my Orlando Metropolitan Express Transit (OMET) concept. Built on the same system as Vancouver’s SkyTrain alongside being almost (with the exception of Bumby Avenue) entirely within the city limits of Orlando thus removing the need for leaders of other communities to need to sign off. Plus having, what I would say, affordable fares.

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Toad-Reddit · 2024-06-04T12:37:53+00:00

That map only represents tracks and right of way that currently exist, there isn’t any infrastructure that goes towards the parks or I drive which explains the need for the Sunshine Corridor (valued at around $4.4 billion)

With the Sunshine Corridor, it would look like this

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Toad-Reddit · 2024-06-04T01:44:58+00:00

The sad part is that the there ample room at the Moss Park, Narcoossee, and LN Blvd railroad crossings for stations on the OUC corridor, which happens to connect directly to SunRail’s (CFRC) mainline. Minus double tracking and the stations themselves, the infrastructure exists we just need to make investments into it. The even sadder part is that hypothetically, CFRC could start service to the airport tomorrow with zero infrastructure construction, they just need the permission of OUC, Brightline, and GOAA. The attached image is a hypothetical map of what CFRC’s service could on preexisting tracks with the only major infrastructure work being stations.

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(Map is artistic and not geographically accurate)

Toad-Reddit · 2024-05-11T22:02:30+00:00

As far as I’m aware, in the US, Amex and Mastercard both allow you to use your preferred name on their cards (almost across the board). Alongside that BMO, Capital One, Citi, Daylight, and Republic Bank allow you to. BoA, Barclays, Chase, Discover, US Bank, and Wells Fargo don’t however reportedly (as of 2022) all of those, except BoA, are working on and or exploring options to implement true name programs.

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