Naqiy90

People act like Ivanhoe was completely unknown before the Yard was proposed. Adventist Health and Loch Haven Park draw more traffic to the area then the Yard will. Hopefully the influx of new residents compels the city to improve the pedestrian experience along Orange Ave. My wish is that the City would eliminate the street parking and add a bike lane and widen the sidewalks.

Too bad Sunrail's hours are inadequate for tourists and leisure riders. 90 minute intervals midday is not good enough for anyone. The only thing Sunrail is good for in Ivanhoe is getting free shots at the Hammered Lamb when it passes. LYNX102 along Orange comes every 15 minutes and is much more convenient to use between downtown and LHP, or even a lime bike. Similar grievance, West Side Story is playing up in Sanford in February, it sure would be nice if Sunrail had night service so me and my GF wouldn't have to drive and could drink . It's not fun if one person has to stay sober and the other gets toasted so we'll be teetotaling that night, c'est la vie. Maybe one day Sunrail will be taken serious as transportation option by our elected officials.

Ahh okay, that sounds reasonable, sorry for the misunderstanding! I suppose such a system would be useful for limited corridors, I-Drive would be a great place for automated shuttles, but Orlando really is in dire need of a strong regional transit system. I'm hoping LYNX takes advantage of the new I-4 express lanes to create a strong system of express buses. Downtown, the theme parks, and I-Drive are the destinations for the majority of transit riders, the system needs to be structured to transport people to and from these destinations efficiently and effectively without having to transfer downtown as required for most routes in the current system.

Fully automated vehicles that can drive in real world conditions will not exist anytime soon if ever. The technology is definitely not there. Automated trains or buses on a guided track are viable tho, which is what transit systems should focus on. Here's a few article that back up my stance. https://jalopnik.com/even-tesla-seems-to-be-getting-real-about-self-driving-1831644553 https://jalopnik.com/2018-was-a-hard-reality-check-for-autonomous-cars-1831182272 No need to reinvent the wheel; the secret to successful transit systems doesn't require A/Vs, Seattle has had massive increases in transit ridership just by increasing the quality of service. AVs might be viable for the downtown Lymmo circulators or other small scale systems, but for a large regional system they're not helpful, unless we create a large automated and elevated train system like Skytrain in Vancouver and other automated rapid transit systems.

Automated cars will never exist in our lifetimes. Dedicated lanes with regular electric buses are what we need; no need to wastes time and money on technology that is vaporware from the beginning.

Yeah it uses DoubleMap lol, it's accurate probably 90% of the time, sometimes there's missing buses and there's a slight time delay but it's a godsend if there's multiple routes nearby that you could take. For example on Semoran/ 50 there's 3 routes that combine for a bus to downtown every 10 mins in the day, which is as good as the LA Subway haha. I stopped riding LYNX and relied on uber's exclusively for a few years after riding sharing launched in Orlando, but with the bus tracker and free fares for local college students they won me back. Honestly it's not bad for short trips and when it's not busy; around rush hour the buses maddeningly crawl through traffic but such is life.

I have free trips as a UCF student, which I combine with the Bus tracker app to hop on buses if they're near by, but also there's an app that you can use to pay digitally, but the 3 only comes hourly despite getting decent ridership which is a prime example of the level of service not meeting demand. The only routes with 15 min headways, which is the federal definition of frequent is the 8, which gets 8000 riders daily, many more than Sunrail, and the 102, which doesn't even have the ridership to justify it but it gets funding for good frequency from the special tax district along 17-92. There's definitely demand for frequent routes along Orange ave, Colonial, Semoran, and the other other major corridors that is not getting met at all. You should take downtown at least once tho just to try it out, LYNX Paw Pass and LYNX Bus Tracker are all you need to make the trip super easy!

Anywhere in Orlando? If transit was competitive with driving people who can afford to drive would occasional chose transit, right now that's not the case with the current bus system. It feels like a waste of a great location because no one in this building would likely ever take a bus anywhere, except maybe the downtown LYMMO.

True, looking at that route it is very circuitous, I assumed it just went straight down 192 but that would make too make sense for LYNX. I hope they straighten out their routes if they ever follow through with the route optimization plan they're supposedly working on, their long and meandering routes anger me as a frequent user thanks to my free fares as UCF student.

Or take LYNX #10 from Kissimmee, much cheaper, depending on where the BBQ Place is in St Cloud

If only LYNX had good enough service to attract users who could actually afford to live here- Tampa passed a sales tax to support transit, I'm sure Orlando could pass one as well if it was on the ballot, although I guess the logistics would be more difficult since LYNX provides service to 3 counties instead of just 1 like HART. Regardless, this project will be great if it goes through, lack of activity in between North Quarter and the CBD is one of the biggest problems with urban cohesion around DT . I hope the ball starts rolling on this and the other projects proposed in the area and it gets as vibrant and fast growing as South Eola, lots of surface parking lots to redevelop near here! I dream of the day Orange Ave between Ivanhoe and Sodo is a bustling urban corridor.

If this goes through I think the city should make the developer build a Sunrail station nearby ala Church Street Plaza phase 2, having the influx of traffic this would bring would be horrible for developing the walkability of North Quarter and nearby Ivanhoe Village.

You can now on the Silver Star or Silver Meteor twice a day lol, I know Amtrak sucks but take it to West Palm and transfer to Brightline and it's actually a pretty great ride!

Not familiar with this area but looking at on Google Maps the Fairchild chapel does look very distinctive and I wish they could reincorporate it into the new development. Not normally a NIMBY but there's plenty of other non-historic parking lots to redevelop over. This Orlando Weekly article with the FairChild chapel on a list of 27 historic landmarks that haven't been destroyed is deeply ironic lol https://photos.orlandoweekly.com/27-orlando-historic-landmarks-havent-destroyed-yet/?slide=1&fairchildd-greenlandconsulting

First i've heard of this project but I love it, glad to see mid-rise residential getting built outside of downtown! Along with the Yard at Ivanhoe, this is really going to make the neighborhood more vibrant; I hope the area and Mills continue to densify and create a secondary urban core built around the awesome Orlando Urban Trail.

It's a 1.5 miles from downtown and 1/2 mile from a Sunrail stop, not to mention one of the most frequent LYNX routes on Orange, if anything it should be bigger.

I live near Lake Underhill and commute from UCF, there's hourly bus service but it's faster to use one of these for the last mile instead of connecting from 50. Great idea about dual use LYMMO/Bike Lanes; in Denver the 16th street mall is a dual pedestrian and bus street which I loved.

Haven't ridden the scooters but the dockless bikes are great for the last mile for my bus commute! The real clutter is these dockless automobiles that take up space everywhere

Not so much the practice field, but if NeoCity is ever fully realized as a high tech economic hub it could generate a decent amount of professional riders who want to live in the bigger city and commute, since Sunrail from Orlando to Kissimmee is generally faster than driving and professionals can work on Sunrail opposed to driving. Right now Sunrail is mostly people commuting into Orlando from Kissimmee, so getting more reverse commuters would be a good use of excess capacity. In addition to the practice field there's the two other sports facilities, Johnson University, and Valencia Osceola Campus all within a mile radius. Irrespective of any new developments, an alternative analysis for Bus Rapid Transit was approved for 192 back in 2013 and the corridor already gets substantial bus ridership, so it's time to get er' dun!

Lynx and Osceola need to hurry up with their proposed BRT for 192. That would make connectivity to this practice field and NeoCity from Sunrail very easy and increase ridership from other commuters as well. Right now the biggest problem for Sunrail beside it's inadequate service is its lack of regional frequent bus connections. Orlando's' transit system needs to be holistic, not piecemeal!

Was reading this recently released Regional Transit Study for Central Florida and noticed Sunrail to Lakeland is being given close consideration, very interesting and hopefully a project that advances in the near future! https://metroplanorlando.org/wp-content/uploads/RTS-report_10.05.18.Final_.pdf

Only 6 units and 19 parking space This does nothing to help South Eola become more urban, although this appears to be the maximum density allowed for the area, it's crazy to me that the entire surrounding area of Lake Eola isn't zoned for high density urban dwellings.

You didn't hear it from me, but if you disable javascript in your browser you can get past the paywall! The article states, " There likely will be another "one or or two" projects in the next several years after the first project is completed in mid-2020 and after the Mill Creek Residential Trust LLC project is finished approximately a year later. " So it seems they're waiting to see how the first complex pans out before starting on more.

I like the Love Sculpture, every city should have one!

https://play.google.com/store/books/details?id=7CY3AQAAMAAJ&hl=en Not relevant to transit today, but while searching for the location of the old LYNX station I found this Environmental report for the canceled light rail that is very fascinating for anyone interested in the technical details of transit. Also if anyone has any old LYNX system maps or other Orlando transit history, I would love to see it. I have been reading old board reports going back to 2005, it's disheartening to see them discussing projects literally a decade ago i.e SR 50 BRT that they have yet to even begin now :/