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Especially considering you can fly Orlando to Miami, possibly in less total time. Granted, flying is not a cost effective means to commute, but I don’t think r

Especially considering you can fly Orlando to Miami, possibly in less total time. Granted, flying is not a cost effective means to commute, but I don’t think rail service from Orlando to Miami will have too many true commuters on board compared to less frequent travelers.

ghaff 8y ago
You're basically talking the equivalent of Boston to New York City although you don't have the same potential for downtown to downtown travel. That's definitely not a daily commute sort of thing. I don't know enough about Florida travel patterns to know how much sense that city pair makes.
- hamandcheese 8y ago
  Personally I’d rather see Orlando to Tampa, but it definitely felt like 80% of the people I went to college with in Orlando were from south Florida.
- masklinn 8y ago
  If you have the market for an HSR (a real one) it's feasible, thought not great and you'd really need better downtown public transport. Assuming direct it'd be a ~1:45 trip, possibly 1:30 on the really modern 350km/h (~220mph) lines, and if you don't have trouble falling asleep you can usually sleep/nap, you can work, and you could have a meal service. Not cheap though, HSR tickets are not $10 (though it's not that far if you're using a high-frequency subscription thing, especially if you're using it daily).
- bobthepanda 8y ago
  West Palm Beach to Miami is equivalent to Trenton to New York, which is not great but also not wildly unrealistic.
bobthepanda 8y ago
Both airports are traffic prone and you have to account the time of getting there and passing through American security theater.
- masklinn 8y ago
  > you have to account the time of getting there Only at Miami since the Orlando train station is, again, at the Orlando airport. So the traffic trouble will be the exact same.
- closeparen 8y ago
  Arbitraging TSA rules with rail is only going to work until the first train bomb. At most.

ghaff 8y ago

You're basically talking the equivalent of Boston to New York City although you don't have the same potential for downtown to downtown travel. That's definitely not a daily commute sort of thing. I don't know enough about Florida travel patterns to know how much sense that city pair makes.

hamandcheese 8y ago
Personally I’d rather see Orlando to Tampa, but it definitely felt like 80% of the people I went to college with in Orlando were from south Florida.
masklinn 8y ago
If you have the market for an HSR (a real one) it's feasible, thought not great and you'd really need better downtown public transport. Assuming direct it'd be a ~1:45 trip, possibly 1:30 on the really modern 350km/h (~220mph) lines, and if you don't have trouble falling asleep you can usually sleep/nap, you can work, and you could have a meal service. Not cheap though, HSR tickets are not $10 (though it's not that far if you're using a high-frequency subscription thing, especially if you're using it daily).
bobthepanda 8y ago
West Palm Beach to Miami is equivalent to Trenton to New York, which is not great but also not wildly unrealistic.

bobthepanda 8y ago

Both airports are traffic prone and you have to account the time of getting there and passing through American security theater.

masklinn 8y ago
> you have to account the time of getting there Only at Miami since the Orlando train station is, again, at the Orlando airport. So the traffic trouble will be the exact same.
closeparen 8y ago
Arbitraging TSA rules with rail is only going to work until the first train bomb. At most.