Recent content by cbustrains

Some early tidbits on the Orlando service: 18 trains were sold out over the last weekend. Currently operating at 75% capacity between Orlando and West Palm Beach. Frequency will be doubled next week. Also has some interesting tidbits from Patrick Goddard about travel times, including saying...

The additional cars will definitely help! I couldn't find it in this thread, but have we gotten any sense of rationale as to why they went with 4 car train sets with no additional support until a year (or more) after the Orlando launch? It just seems rather odd that their math between...

There's been some speculation that only Brightline knows about its financials, but I think we can get a fairly decent glimpse into their financials when combining a couple reports together. I'm including a link to a Google Sheets that I created lays out what the March financials might've looked...

Yesterday, there was a significant announcement in Canada that the Canada Infrastructure Bank is funding "pre-procurement" activities that will lay the groundwork for a possible public-private partnership to develop dedicated passenger rail service from Toronto to Ottawa to Montreal to Quebec...

April 2019 results are out and they don't look pretty: "For the month ended April 30, 2019, we carried 71,308 passengers and generated total revenue of approximately $1.8 million. Daily trips by commuters and frequent business travelers continued to grow in the month of April, while...

Interesting, good insight Anderson. I've been thinking more in terms of additive increases rather than percentage increases; as ridership numbers go up, I would imagine the 7%-8.5% percentage growth would eventually become unsustainable. However, as you've indicated, the percentage growth...

The Miami Herald had an interesting article with some good tidbits of information on Brightline (albeit with some pieces of poor math and misunderstanding): https://www.miamiherald.com/news/business/article227318879.html A few interesting notes: March 2019 ridership was 90,000 (no revenues...

Anderson, great work in tallying all of that! Very interesting results-- I'm particularly surprised that the weekend ridership is so much higher yet the frequencies are much lower; as you've alluded to, it seems like they would benefit from more weekend trains. I've been trying to replicate...

If I recall correctly, I believe that the Eastern Flyer got delayed once Iowa Pacific won the Hoosier State service. I can't seem to find the article that I remember but here's one link that talks about why it was delayed...