SunRail

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So free rides and a new atrium, fan-centric perks from Orlando Magic's Disney SunRail partnership.

So, uh, I was just at the Orlando Magic game last night.

They crushed the Cavaliers.

You're locked in to The Beat of Sports.

And completely unrelated to anything, I saw yesterday a story that, um, uh, the Magic in a partnership with, uh, SunRail, I, I, I, if you...

I guess if you're, uh, e- it's either you're a season ticket holder, or if you have tickets, you can ride the SunRail free to the Church Street stop for games.

Okay, and I mean, the promotion's fine.

Who's doing that? Have you ever rode the SunRail?

Yeah, it's fun.

I enjoy it.

Why not?

Which one of you is calling the store right now? Huh? You guys prank calling the store? Yeah.

So what does it say? Are you sure that wasn't Sunrail? No, it was the Brightline.

The Brightline...

Files bankruptcy.

All right.

What about SunRail? Because you'll have to be dealing with SunRail as well.

Right.

So SunRail, so the estimate for SunRail to be profitable and make the connections it needs are $1.4 billion.

So I think I could see maybe some minor expansion of SunRail, but before we tackle SunRail, we have to fix the bus system.

So the bus system is something that we can easily fix.

And we can, once we fix it, It can cover pretty much every corner of Orange County, which is something that's needed.

Mm-hmm

... you know, uh, uh, SunRail not happening on the weekends, but, uh, when you get into the muck and mire of it, it's, it's pretty ...

It's a pretty hard, uh, slog to-

Right

Uh, but I guess the idea is ultimately this could expand into light rail or even heavy-

Mm-hmm

... rail, and, which is, uh, obviously, uh, important because if SunRail's going to work, there's going to need to be connectors from other places other than along that corridor, you know?

Right.

Hmm.

But the interesting thing is, um, from the stretch from Orlando to Tampa, it was already being envisioned as more of a public-private partnership, um, where, where there's SunRail, which is, like, the train system in, in, in central Florida.

They were gonna foot many of the costs 'cause they're gonna share the tracks with where the, the Brightline wants to go.

So there is envisioned that there's gonna be more government support of actually building out that stretch of the line-

And so the idea was that STAR Plan was going to outline a framework for funding for rapid transit options, including rail, dedicated bus routes, so that's like a little bit of an easier fix, in the following corridors.

You had Colonial, Semoran, I Drive, Kirkman, Silver Star, OBT, and the 16-mile stretch of the Br- Brightline SunRail connector, AKA the Sunshine Corridor.

Now, this does not mean this is moving forward just because it got approved.

What it got approved was essentially a feasibility study.

There's a lot of other options that I think we should be also talking about.

But yeah, it could be buses.

It could be an expanded SunRail.

Uh, it could be a lot of other things, uh, to get things moving.