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Will the Brightline high-speed train ever come to Tampa?
I discuss Brightline's Florida service and the prospect of extending rail travel to Tampa.
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[00:00] Florida has really lagged behind in public transportation for a long time especially Tampa I me we have the port right where you can go out to do cruises but that's not really Transportation we've had the Amtrak train it can take you from Tampa to Orlando or Tampa to
[00:13] Miami Tampa to Miami is about 5 and 1 half hours it's an hour longer than driving but I mean it's a little bit of a pain right but but recently right in 2025 we're going to have flying taxis as promised to us by the jetss and the bright line which is already operational takes people from Miami to Orlando and
[00:31] it stops around Bo boaron and Fort Lauderdale a couple other places West Palm Beach Orlando to Miami in about less than 2 hours it travels up to 125 M hour and they just received a $16 million Federal grant to connect Orlando to Tampa so this is really opening up Tampa quite a bit to public
[00:49] transportation getting around the state freely
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