Before Sunrail officially opens May 1, you can catch a ride for free April 15-25 on its 32 miles of track. Where exactly can you ride it to? The stops include Debary, Sanford, Lake Mary, Longwood, Altamonte Springs, Maitland, Winter Park, Florida Hospital Health Village, Lynx Central, Church Street, Orlando Health/Amtrak, Sand Lake Road
Before Sunrail officially opens May 1, you can catch a ride for free April 15-25 on its 32 miles of track. Where exactly can you ride it to? The stops include Debary, Sanford, Lake Mary, Longwood, Altamonte Springs, Maitland, Winter Park, Florida Hospital Health Village, Lynx Central, Church Street, Orlando Health/Amtrak, Sand Lake Road
The City of Orlando notified the two companies who bid to set up and manage a bike share program in the city that CycleHop (Website), who recently purchased Orlando based SunCycles, ranked the highest. The City will now work to establish a contract with CycleHop and get final City Council approval. CycleHop’s proposal included a setup where users will pay a monthly, weekly or daily membership fee to rent the bikes. Members would then get one hour of free bike rental each day. After that they would pay a small fee.
Because gopher tortoises are a protected species, if burrows are found on a development site that appear to be occupied, developers are required to relocate them to a safer place before they can do any site work.
That’s where Lotspeich comes in.
Ecological firms are required to set up traps to catch the tortoises and monitor them daily — weekends included — for 28 days, per state rules. If no tortoises are captured, the traps can be broken down.
Because gopher tortoises are a protected species, if burrows are found on a development site that appear to be occupied, developers are required to relocate them to a safer place before they can do any site work.
That’s where Lotspeich comes in.
Ecological firms are required to set up traps to catch the tortoises and monitor them daily — weekends included — for 28 days, per state rules. If no tortoises are captured, the traps can be broken down.
Lynx has won $3.5 million in federal grants to come up with the software and a plan to put the buses on the road by November 2013. The idea is to have the system running before the SunRail commuter train starts operations in 2014.
"You want it to be [working] pretty seamlessly before SunRail," Brock said.
FlexBus could help SunRail riders get to their final destination, as well as target "choice riders," or people who have access to cars but might be persuaded to ride a bus or train.
taking an existing rail spur that runs from Orange Avenue and Weatherbee Road east to just south of the airport, and converting it to commuter rail.
The line comes off the SunRail track between its planned Sand Lake Road and Meadow Woods stations, and would require a new track to lead into the planned $1 billion South Terminal at the airport.
Maglev as a Central Florida transit option first was talked about in the early 1980s as an airport-to-Disney route. The subject disappeared and then resurfaced several times throughout the years, with companies proposing privately funded projects priced from $500 million to $600 million.
The reason for two separate stations: The Amtrak station, which Orange County records show was built in 1926, reportedly had several compliance issues and neither the city nor the transportation department — which acquired the property from CSX Corp. as part of its $150 million purchase of the SunRail corridor last November — has the funds to do the needed improvements.
