{"id":236729,"date":"2026-04-18T09:02:09","date_gmt":"2026-04-18T09:02:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/236729\/"},"modified":"2026-04-18T09:02:09","modified_gmt":"2026-04-18T09:02:09","slug":"can-central-florida-improve-its-transit-connections-orlando-sentinel","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/236729\/","title":{"rendered":"Can Central Florida improve its transit connections? \u2013 Orlando Sentinel"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>On this week\u2019s episode of Talking Central Florida,\u00a0Gary Huttmann of MetroPlan Orlando discusses the future of transportation across the region, including long-term planning efforts and the challenges of keeping up with rapid growth.<\/p>\n<p>The conversation focuses on SunRail expansion, improving road capacity, and addressing congestion across Central Florida. Plus, the discussion explores emerging solutions including micromobility, last-mile connections, and how new technologies could play a role in the region\u2019s transportation network moving forward.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/@TalkingCentralFlorida\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Talking Central Florida<\/a> is hosted by Steve Mort. The show gets in-depth analysis from the journalists covering our region\u2019s most important issues.<\/p>\n<p>The show is a production of the News Collaborative of Central Florida with support from Central Florida Public Media, the Orlando Sentinel, the Winter Park Voice, and the Central Florida Foundation.<\/p>\n<p>View every podcast from the show at <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/@TalkingCentralFlorida\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">youtube.com\/@TalkingCentralFlorida<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"On this week\u2019s episode of Talking Central Florida,\u00a0Gary Huttmann of MetroPlan Orlando discusses the future of transportation across&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":236730,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[558,114,266,115,139,141,140,109,76686,80971,1798],"class_list":{"0":"post-236729","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-orlando","8":"tag-business","9":"tag-latest-headlines","10":"tag-local-news","11":"tag-news","12":"tag-orlando","13":"tag-orlando-headlines","14":"tag-orlando-news","15":"tag-social","16":"tag-social-business","17":"tag-talking-central-florida","18":"tag-transportation"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/236729","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=236729"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/236729\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/236730"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=236729"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=236729"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=236729"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}