{"id":202870,"date":"2010-01-20T08:57:46","date_gmt":"2010-01-20T13:57:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.skyscrapercity.com\/showthread.php?t=1049737"},"modified":"2010-01-20T08:57:46","modified_gmt":"2010-01-20T13:57:46","slug":"my-issue-with-the-proposed-hsr-station","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/202870","title":{"rendered":"My issue with the Proposed HSR Station"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>Let me start off with that I support the HSR proposal now. Earlier in the plan, I feared that Tampa may lose out in the benefits that I could see Orlando recieving being the centerpoint of the High Speed Rail. But after viewing numerous HSR systems and other train systems, I have less doubt that Tampa will be taken advantage of. And down the road, more lines may be added to the Florida system. Tampa to Miami, Tampa to Jacksonville, and maybe Tampa to Atlanta if we can rapidly improve the system and find some type of funding, either between both states or through federal funding.<\/p>\n<p>But the idea that more lines done the road may come in place is where I have a problem with the proposed location of the Tampa Station. If we&#8217;re talking about 4 to 5 lines here (Tampa-Orlando, Tampa-Miami, Tampa-Jacksonville, Tampa-Atlanta, and maybe Tampa to New Orleans), we&#8217;re not going to fit all them on one platform. Using one or two platforms won&#8217;t work either and that&#8217;s what Union Station has. So with a station larger than Union Station while also including light rail, bus station, drop-off, retail, and other needed things for the station (bathrooms, ticket window, etc); a station is not going to work on that site.<\/p>\n<p>And yeah I know, &quot;But all those lines could be 20 to 50 years away&quot;, but why build a station that we already know won&#8217;t be able to handle so many lines to have to build another station when needed? Why not build a station that has enough room to expand? Something like this is what I have complained about the City Council and Tampa, why let it happen here?<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Let me start off with that I support the HSR proposal now. Earlier in the plan, I feared that Tampa may lose out in the benefits that I could see Orlando recieving being the centerpoint of the High Speed Rail. But after viewing numerous HSR systems and other train systems, I have less doubt that [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3613,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-202870","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/202870","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3613"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=202870"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/202870\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=202870"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=202870"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=202870"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}