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Inaugural day for SunRail on May 1, 2014 was mobbed with 10,000 curious riders who overwhelmed the train’s schedule. Considering SunRail’s tumultuous first decade, that chaotic and delay-plagued opening — with free admission and a carnival atmosphere at crowded stations — was a success. The little Central Florida commuter train has faced its share of perils since then, including unfriendly ...
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A proposed Sunrail line stretching from Disney Springs to the Orlando International Airport would more than triple ridership, even before accounting for tourists, according to preliminary results of an FDOT study released Thursday.
Expanding SunRail to Orlando’s airport and the region’s tourism corridor would boost ridership at least sixfold in the first year of operation but come at an eye-popping cost of about $4 billion, state officials said Thursday in providing their first public projections for the commuter train’s next phase. “There’s a lot of sharpening of the pencil to determine the true cost of this project,” ...
A $500,000 federal grant has been announced to support the proposed Sunshine Corridor.
SunRail would connect to Brightline at Orlando International, to the Orange County Convention Center, and to Disney Springs.