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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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What should the program for a Transportation Management District look like?

Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

The Turkish bus firm Karsan produces a 16 passenger electric bus which would also work but is bigger (" What Kind of Big Impact Will a New Minibus Have on North America’s Small Bus Market? ," Mass Transit Magazine ). The idea is that intra-district transportation, especially by SFH residents, could be shifted to shuttles rather than by car.