Brightline announced it had set a record for weekend ridership<\/a>, transporting more than 40,000 guests, a nearly 40 percent increase compared to the same weekend of spring break travel last year.<\/p>\n\u201cIt is not only economical but also very convenient,\u201d said Jesica Jones, another Brightline rider.<\/p>\n
SunRail has also seen people make the switch.<\/p>\n
\u201cThese two had doctor\u2019s appointments down at AdventHealth and it is just a lot cheaper than driving a diesel truck down there. Ut cost me a lot less,\u201d said Lydia Williams.<\/p>\n
Her husband is driving her car to work to save on diesel fuel, so with the diesel truck as her only option, she chose the train.<\/p>\n
\u201cFor a gallon and a half of gasoline because it is almost $6. I can take the train down and back and it does not cost as much, so that is what we are trying to do is save money on gasoline,\u201d Williams said.<\/p>\n
Circumstances like this remind community leaders why it\u2019s important to have options.<\/p>\n
\u201cWe have to realize one size doesn\u2019t fit all and every family and every individual doesn\u2019t have the same needs,\u201d said Amy Lockhart, a Seminole County commissioner. \u201cSo it is really important as a community we focus on trying to provide as many options as possible so that people can live their day to day lives with as little disruption as possible.\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n
Seminole County\u2019s Scout program and LYNX buses have not seen a ridership increase due to gas prices, at least for now.<\/p>\n
Lockhart says ticket prices on SunRail will not increase for the next fiscal year. She also said when they started Scout last year, they were focused on diversifying transportation and with the Scout fleet, there are electric vehicles, so price increases are not a concern for those riders either.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"ORLANDO, Fla. \u2014 Whether it is traveling across the country, the state or around town, travelers in Central…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":206211,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[2173,2175,115,1335,139,141,140,9429,1014,2180,729,2177,11901,1798,835],"class_list":["post-206210","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-orlando","tag-app-traffic-transit","tag-app-traffic-and-transit","tag-news","tag-orange-county","tag-orlando","tag-orlando-headlines","tag-orlando-news","tag-sarah-winkelmann","tag-seminole-county","tag-topic-latest-traffic-transit-news","tag-traffic","tag-traffic-and-transit","tag-transit","tag-transportation","tag-vod"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/206210","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=206210"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/206210\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/206211"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=206210"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=206210"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=206210"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}