It Figures: How Buses Can Beat High-Speed Rail in Florida

Some numbers to ponder as you sit in traffic and contemplate the cost of high-speed rail in Florida:

There are 448,800 feet in the 85-mile trip from Tampa to Orlando.

The average passenger bus is 55 feet long.

Placed end to end, it would take 8,160 buses to reach 85 miles.

At an average cost of $200,000 per bus, the cost would total $1.632 billion (roughly half the high-speed rail's projected $3 billion-plus price tag)

If each bus would make just ONE trip per day, they would transport 163,812,000 people per year and would employ 24,480 drivers per day.

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