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Today has been smoother. On time and completely full train.

Either or, whatever it takes......cause after my experience yesterday, I would question riding it again due to reliability.

So apparently and SUV was impatient sitting behind another car who was correctly stopped for the gates. The SUV decided to overtake the car and go through the barriers. Guy is now dead.

So here is my review of brightline. It sucks. When it goes I'm sure it's fine. However, people (RIP) on camera try to drive around the railroad barriers. Now they are dead. Sorry that I am not giving more remorse...... but what did they expect when trying to play games with death? I am sorry that they got killed, but they had nobody else but themselves to blame. Now, 4 hours later, not even halfway to Miami, another car on the tracks. And yes, from people I know in Melbourne, they watched the car skip the barriers.

Well that is good from the financing standpoint. However, that press release from 2022 says a 2025 opening. There has been zero movement other than those press releases during the fall of 2022. No followup press announcements, the Tao group web page doesn't list anything upcoming either. Is there any filing for construction with the county? If not, then they are at best very delayed and at worst, a dream project that fell apart.

I think Nobu has the financing. Not sure about the Tao group. Outside of some press releases, nothing else. Tao is a hospitality firm who manages restaurants and nightclubs in the big party night life cities such as NY, Vegas, and Miami. I don't think they ever would have had to front the kind of money for an entire hotel with the nightlife buildout before and not sure they are capable of doing it all by themselves.

Yea, but seeing it on their website announced is a little .ore solid than a developer doing a press release promising a specific brand.

I believe it is behind marriott world center.....about a mile or two from the Osceola County line. Heart of orlando my butt lol.

At least more than newspaper press releases...... https://www.nobuhotels.com/hotel-collection/nobu-hotel-orlando/

Gonna be a nail biter on whether we pass 58 million. Had a 647K jump year over year with November 2023 factored in. 12 month rolling now at 57,138,805. My prediction will be about 57.7 million for the year.

I like it. I was really worried about an Orlando Health Arena or Advent Health Arena.

I was told, true high speed (160mph+) is capable with one diesel locomotive, but we would need short trains for that and the acceleration time almost makes it not worth it. Actually running both locomotives at the same time can do it, but I don't think brightline would like the economics of double the fuel.

I just did Madrid to Seville, 328 miles, and 2h45. All electrified and no road crossings. Similar line to Cocoa and all points west.

Maybe they should switch to dual mode and electrify the potions that have no road crossings, from cocoa all the ways to tampa when the time comes. This can dramatically decrease the transit to Tampa from Miami and Orlando.

Is Acela electric? Just curious, designed for 125mph. What on God's green earth could make that section any more safer and designed for higher speed? I was literally on a line with turns, through towns, etc from Madrid to Sevilla and went 167mph, however electric. The cocoa to Orlando line being restricted to a lower speed makes no sense. What possibly would need to be added for higher speed being approved? What is wrong with the geometry? It's literally a straight run with no crossings.

But why? There is no logical reason to need to have a speed limit on that section. If anything, this section checks off all the boxes for very high speed rail. Dedicated non shared tracks, no road crossings, straightline.........makes no sense other than power issues regarding extra powerplant or electrifying the tracks. Kind of the like FAA freaking out over anything built higher than 600 feet anywhere in the county nowhere near the airport........when other cities have no problem for 800 to 1000 footers in direct air traffic paths like Miami and San Diego.

They have everything needed for superfast speeds between cocoa and Orlando considering no road crossings and a straight run.......but they tap out at 125mph. I heard some discussion that it may be due to the fact that it is being run by diesel trains and to get it faster would take two train powerplants, which make it less economical. The only way to get it really fast is electrifying the tracks, which isn't really possible on the east coast run, but uber expensive on the straight run.

They do it cause they can and it makes them look better. Vegas is the only major airport that would see a considerable passenger count from general aviation. All other major cities have general aviation airports that take the bulk.

Also checked the airports ahead of us, apparently air traffic is booming across everywhere. Paris is averaging 5.5 to 6 million passengers a month. Same with JFK. However, Miami continues to run behind Orlando considerably, but I think that is due to Fort Lauderdale

Las Vegas currently ahead of us by 200k passengers for the calendar year, but then again they cheat with their numbers and included 800,000 general aviation passengers to their total.

Wow wow wow. I cannot believe the county allowed this to go through. The old chevron station that was sold and razed on the corner of turkey lake and sand lake roads was sold for 7 million dollars.......to build......a Marijuana dispenserary. I thought the location of these places needed to be in specific zoned areas.

Rolling 12 months through October 2023 is 56,491,946. Continue to be on track for 57.5 million for 2023 unless we have blowout November and December numbers. Air traffic as a whole has gone up everywhere, but I think Orlando rose a lot higher than others. Using last years numbers, with an estimate of 57.5 million, this would be enough to bump Orlando up to being top 10 worldwide by displacing Paris Charles de Gaulle from #10.

It will be one of the Demings.

People hate on BD too much. Honestly, if it was not for him, we would still have the Orlando Arena, but WITHOUT a tenant. Very easily could have been the Tampa Magic, Nashville Magic, or Las Vegas Magic.

I'll dig deeper into the numbers. As far as my complaint, I only did it here, but I do believe some UP members are connected to the airport, so that probably helped