Universal Orlando Resort to Epic Universe Transportation News & Speculation

[Evan]

I honestly think even if they continue with this, it will fail spectacularly. And even if it manages to reach completion, it won’t be super beneficial to the campuses, and they’ll still need to spend a lot of money on an actual transportation system.

 

[Disneyhead]

People are like, "the water table is too high to build tunnels in Florida".

They built a tunnel under the English Channel. Nothing is impossible.

That said, they will have to use trains not Teslas to accommodate the volume. And at that point isn't it just a high tech subway?

 

[RFRees]

Apparently the Vegas loop operates at a "peak of 4,500 passengers per hour" with the current Tesla vehicles. (I'd imagine that's with full vehicles.) Not sure if this has been independently verified.

 

[fryoj]

People are like, "the water table is too high to build tunnels in Florida".

They built a tunnel under the English Channel. Nothing is impossible.

That said, they will have to use trains not Teslas to accommodate the volume. And at that point isn't it just a high tech subway?

Yeah, the whole "can't do tunnels in Florida" thing is just incorrect on many levels but people keep parroting because they don't want this tunnel.

By the time this would be done, I think they'll have some sort of tesla bus, or even just have the Universal electric busses go through it. They could either have stops at a few key locations, or just a main line that lets them surface at each end and use the surface streets there. At that point it would pull all of that bus traffic off, at least, Kirkman. I'd think that would be a good thing.

Of course there's the multi-billion dollar question of if it makes financial sense to do, or if it's better to just keep running busses up and down the road.

 

[Tbad556]

There's a difference between "possible" and "smart". It's one of the key reasons the Fort Lauderdale loop fell through. And that was with The Boring Company being willing to pay for the entire project. Same goes for Miami's proposed loop. One of their key reasons it's been in limbo is the concerns of chronic flooding, porous limestone foundations, and its low elevation near sea level.

We can debate until we're blue in the face about whether it "can" be done. But time and time again, they've shown that they aren't serious about moving forward with these projects. They've been having discussions about loops for nearly a decade and out of 14 proposed tunnels, they've successfully opened one.

I mean, some of these discussions are straight up ending in The Boring Company ghosting interested cities. Bexar County/San Antonio got as far as selecting The Boring Company to build one and it ended it the company leaving them on read.

I'll be absolutely stunned if this moves past the negotiations stage.