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A comment on One-Of-a-Kind Private Train Takes on Florida’s Traffic Nightmare. Parent comment

Re:One-Of-a-Kind Private Train Takes on Florida’s Traffic Ni... by macintux on Monday May 21, 2018 @12:20AM (#17116114)
Perhaps it helps that there’s a lot of undeveloped land in Florida: this is also roughly the model that The Villages (massive retirement community in north-central Florida) uses.

The developer builds and sells the homes but retains the town centers and thus makes money on leasing retail and restaurants.

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Re:One-Of-a-Kind Private Train Takes on Florida’s Traffic Ni... by vonmoltke on Monday May 21, 2018 @09:17AM (#17118130)
> Perhaps it helps that there’s a lot of undeveloped land in Florida

There is barely any undeveloped land in the metro area that the Brightline is starting life in. There is underdeveloped land on the rail corridor that can be used to further increase population density, but that is true of many metro areas.

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