The shock is realizing that Florida Man is just because of open criminal records, not because of region. There's "Florida men" everywhere, just in different flavors. Be careful out there.

Ideal is a circle; long is just more expensive. Flat is really good though.

I'm in NZ; we have long and hilly/mountainous, rail is not good here. I wish it were, I love trains.

I mean, it does absolutely pour rain every day for about 5 minutes (in my experience), but if that is an issue I imagine the trains could just, stop for that 5 minutes. Because it literally just comes and instantly goes, but also it's an extremely heavy deluge.

Sure. Loads of salt, humidity, and wet squishy ground are great for steel tracks and super heavy trains....

but then you're in Jacksonville without a car.

Jacksonville wasn't part of the first one, it was Tampa - Orlando - Miami. Not sure about the others. Valid point, even with a train we're so car dependent other things would also have to be in place for a lot of people to use it.

It was going to happen, using private funds to build and operate it for 10 years, before giving it over to the state, but Rick Scott killed it as soon as he took office as Governor, without ever mentioning it during his campaign.

Later, he backed a new conventional rail system, in which he has an ownership stake.