Orlando, Florida "Orlando" and "The City Beautiful"
Orlando, Florida City of Orlando Entrance to Gatorland Sea - World Orlando Amway Center Top row: Downtown Orlando; 2nd row: Orange County Courthouse, Universal Studios Florida, Walt Disney World; 3rd row: Gatorland, Sea - World Orlando, Amway Center; 4th row: Lake Eola fountain, Camping World Stadium, Church Street Station Flag of Orlando, Florida Flag Official seal of Orlando, Florida Orlando (/ r l ndo /) is a town/city in the U.S.
Located in Central Florida, it is the center of the Orlando urbane area, which had a populace of 2,387,138, as stated to U.S.
Enumeration Bureau figures released in March 2016, making it the 24th-largest urbane region in the United States, the sixth-largest urbane region in the Southern United States, and the third-largest urbane region in Florida.
As of 2015, Orlando had an estimated city-proper populace of 270,934, making it the 73rd-largest town/city in the United States, the fourth-largest town/city in Florida, and the state's biggest inland city.
The City of Orlando is nicknamed "The City Beautiful," and its motif is the fountain at Lake Eola.
Orlando is also known as "The Theme Park Capital of the World" and in 2014 its tourist attractions and affairs drew more than 62 million visitors. The Orlando International Airport (MCO) is the thirteenth-busiest airport in the United States and the 29th-busiest in the world. Buddy Dyer is Orlando's mayor.
As one of the world's most visited tourist destinations, Orlando's famous attractions form the backbone of its tourism industry: Walt Disney World, positioned approximately 21 miles (34 km) southwest of Downtown Orlando in Bay Lake, opened by the Walt Disney Company in 1971; the Universal Orlando Resort, opened in 1999 as a primary expansion of Universal Studios Florida.
Like other primary cities in the Sun Belt, Orlando interval quickly during the 1980s and into the first decade of the 21st century, mostly due to the success of Walt Disney World, which was opened on October 1, 1971.
Orlando is home to the University of Central Florida, which is the biggest university ground in the United States in terms of enrollment as of 2015.
In 2010, Orlando was listed as a "Gamma " level of world-city in the World Cities Study Group's inventory. Orlando rates as the fourth-most prominent American town/city based on where citizens want to live as stated to a 2009 Pew Research Center study. 3.1.2 Outside Downtown Orlando Fort Gatlin, as the Orlando region was once known, was established at what is now just south of the town/city limits by the 4th U.S.
Jernigan appears on an 1855 map of Florida and by 1856 the region had turn into the governmental center of county of Orange County. It is known for certain that the region was retitled Orlando in 1857. The move is believed to be sparked, in part, by Aaron Jernigan's fall from grace after he was relieved of his militia command by military officials in 1856.
The most common stories are that the name Orlando originated from the tale of a man who died in 1835 amid a attack by Native Americans in the region during the Second Seminole War.
One variant includes a man titled Orlando who was passing by on his way to Tampa with a herd of ox, died, and was buried in a marked grave. At a meeting in 1857, debate had grown concerning the name of the town.
Hull recalled how James Speer (a small-town resident, and prominent figure in the stories behind the naming of Orlando) rose in the heat of the argument and said, "This place is often spoken of as 'Orlando's Grave.' Historians agree that there was likely not a soldier titled Orlando Reeves. Folklore is that Reeves was acting as a sentinel for an business of soldiers that had set up camp for the evening on the banks of Sandy Beach Lake. Several different lakes are mentioned in the various versions as no soldiers were in what is now downtown amid 1835. Gore, promoted the Reeves legend in History of Orlando presented in 1949. A memorial beside Lake Eola originally placed by students of Orlando's Cherokee Junior School in 1939 and updated in 1990 designates the spot where the city's supposed namesake fell. One legend has Reeves killed amid an extended battle with the Seminoles after being field promoted after his platoon commander fell. However, an in-depth review of military records in the 1970s and 1980s turned up no record of Orlando Reeves ever existing. Some versions attempt to account for Reeves having no military records by using the name of other citizens titled 'Orlando' that exist in some written records Orlando Acosta; however, not much is known about Acosta or whether he even existed.
This name is taken from a South Carolinian cattle rancher titled Orlando Savage Rees.
Rees owned a Volusia County sugar foundry and plantation as well as a several large estates in Florida and Mississippi. Rees' sugar farms in the region were burned out in the Seminole attacks of 1835 (the year Orlando Reeves supposedly died).
It is believed Rees could have left a pine-bough marker with his name next to the trail; later inhabitants misread "Rees" as "Reeves" and also mistook it as a grave manufacturer. In subsequent years this story has consolidated with the Orlando Reeves story (which may have originally incorporated part of Dr.
Of Orlando (Rees' great-great-grandson) offered small-town historians similar information. Unlike Orlando Reeves who cannot be traced to any historical record, there is considerable record that Orlando Rees did exist and was in Florida amid that time period.
Cheney put forth a new version of the story in an Orlando Sentinel article. Cheney (a small-town historian and then chairman of the county historical commission) recounted a story told to him by his father, Judge John Moses Cheney (a primary figure in Orlando's history who appeared in Orlando in 1885).
The elder Cheney recounted that another gentleman at that time, James Speer, proposed the name Orlando after the character in As You Like It. According to Cheney, Speer, "was a gentleman of culture and an admirer of William Shakespeare... Quoting a letter that Speer wrote, "Orlando was a veritable Forest of Arden, the locale of As You Like It." Speer's descendants have also confirmed this version of the naming and the legend has continued to grow. This account also has some validity in that, as mentioned above, Speer was instrumental in changing the name of the settlement from Jernigan to Orlando, though he may have used the Orlando Reeves legend in lieu of his true intent to use the Shakespearean character.
According to yet another version of the story Orlando may have been the name of one of his employees. It should also be noted that one of downtown Orlando's primary streets is titled Rosalind Avenue; Rosalind is the heroine of As You Like It.
See also: Timeline of Orlando, Florida Before European pioneer appeared in 1536, Orlando was sparsely populated by the Seminole tribe.
There are very several archaeological sites in the region today, except for the former site of Fort Gatlin along the shores of modern-day Lake Gatlin south of downtown Orlando.
The Reconstruction Era brought on a populace explosion, resulting in the incorporation of the Town of Orlando on July 31, 1875 with 85 inhabitants (22 voters), and later as a town/city in 1885. The reconstructionfrom 1875 to 1895 is remembered as Orlando's Golden Era, when it became the core of Florida's citrus industry.
This property is still owned by the Ward family, and can be seen from flights out of Orlando International Airport southbound immediately on the south side of SR 417.
Orlando, as Florida's biggest inland city, became a prominent resort amid the years between the Spanish American War and World War I.
In the 1920s, Orlando experienced extensive housing evolution amid the Florida Land Boom.
During World War II, a number of Army personnel were stationed at the Orlando Army Air Base and close-by Pinecastle Army Air Field.
Orlando AAB and Pinecastle AAF were transferred to the United States Air Force in 1947 when it became a separate service and were re-designated as air force bases (AFB).
In 1968, Orlando AFB was transferred to the United States Navy and became Naval Training Center Orlando.
In addition to boot camp facilities, NTC Orlando was home of one of two Navy Nuclear Power Schools, and home of the Naval Air Warfare Center Training Systems Division.
When Mc - Coy AFB closed in 1975, its runways and territory to its south and east were imparted to the town/city to turn into Orlando International Airport, while a small portion to the northwest was transferred to the Navy as Mc - Coy NTC Annex.
Perhaps the most critical event for Orlando's economy occurred in 1965 when Walt Disney announced plans to build Walt Disney World.
Although Disney had considered the regions of Miami and Tampa for his park, one of the primary reasons behind his decision not to locate there was due to hurricanes Orlando's inland location, although not no-charge from hurricane damage, exposed it to less threat than coastal regions.
The vacation resort opened in October 1971, ushering in an explosive populace and economic expansion for the Orlando urbane area, which now encompasses Orange, Seminole, Osceola, and Lake counties.
Another primary factor in Orlando's expansion occurred in 1962, when the new Orlando Jetport, the precursor of the present day Orlando International Airport, was assembled from a portion of the Mc - Coy Air Force Base.
View of Downtown Orlando (center) and periphery to Lake Apopka (upper-right); January 2011 Today, the historic core of "Old Orlando" resides in Downtown Orlando along Church Street, between Orange Avenue and Garland Avenue.
These neighborhoods, known as "Lake Eola Heights" and "Thornton Park", contain some of the earliest homes in Orlando.
In November 2016, Orlando Mayor Buddy Dyer announced city's intention to acquire of the Pulse Nightclub to build a permanent memorial for the 49 victims of the shooting.
The geography of Orlando is mostly wetlands, consisting of many lakes and swamps.
Central Florida's bedrock is mostly limestone and very porous; the Orlando region is susceptible to sinkholes.
Probably the most famous incident involving a sinkhole happened in 1981 in Winter Park, a town/city immediately north of downtown Orlando, dubbed "The Winter Park Sinkhole".
See also: List of neighborhoods in Orlando, Florida Orlando's town/city limits resemble a checkerboard, with pockets of unincorporated Orange County surrounded by town/city limits.
Such an arrangement can be cumbersome as some areas are served by both Orange County and the City of Orlando.
This also explains Orlando's mostly low town/city population when compared to its urbane population.
The town/city and county are working together in an accomplishment to "round-out" the town/city limits with Orlando annexing portions of territory already bordering the town/city limits.[not in citation given] The majority are positioned in Downtown Orlando and the rest are positioned in the tourist precinct southwest of downtown. Skyscrapers assembled in downtown Orlando have not exceeded 441 ft (134 m), since 1988 when Sun - Trust Center was completed. The chief reason for this is the Orlando Executive Airport, just under 2 miles from the town/city center, which does not allow buildings to exceed a certain height.
Downtown Orlando Information Center, 2008 Orlando International Airport ATC Tower, 2002, 346 ft (105 m) The Sea - World Sky - Tower, 400 ft (122 m), was the tallest fortress in Orange County outside Orlando's town/city limits until surpassed by the Peabody.
The Hyatt Regency Orlando Expansion Tower, Winter 2010, 428 ft (130 m), is the tallest fortress in Orange County outside Orlando's town/city limits. Orlando has a humid subtropical climate (Koppen climate classification Cfa) like much of central Florida.
There are two basic seasons in Orlando, a hot and rainy season, lasting from May until late September (roughly coinciding with the Atlantic hurricane season), and a warm and dry season from October through April. The area's warm and humid climate is caused primarily by its low elevation, its position mostly close to the Tropic of Cancer, and its locale in the center of a peninsula.
In 1998, a strong El Nino caused an unusually wet January and February, followed by drought throughout the spring and early summer, causing a record wildfire season that created various air character alerts in Orlando and severely impacted normal daily life, including the postponement of that year's Pepsi 400 NASCAR race in close-by Daytona Beach. Orlando is a primary population center and has a considerable hurricane risk, although it is not as high as in South Florida's urban corridor or other coastal regions.
Climate data for Orlando (Orlando Int'l), 1981 2010 normals, extremes 1892 present 2010 Enumeration Orlando Orange County Florida Orlando has the biggest population of Puerto Ricans in Florida and their cultural impact on Central Florida is similar to that of the large Cuban populace in South Florida. Orlando is home to the quickest burgeoning Puerto Rican improve in the country.
Between 1980 and 2010, Hispanic populace share rose from 4.1 to 25.4%. Orlando also has a large and burgeoning Caribbean population, with a large West Indian improve (particularly Jamaicans and the Trinidadian and Tobagonian population), and an established Haitian community.
Orlando has a large LGBT populace and is recognized as one of the most accepting and tolerant metros/cities in the Southeast.
As of 2015, around 4.1% of Orlando's populace identify as LGBT, making Orlando the town/city with the 20th-highest percentage of LGBT inhabitants in the country. The town/city is host to Gay Days every June (including at close-by Walt Disney World), holds a huge Pride festival every October, and is home to Florida's first openly gay City Commissioner, Patty Sheehan. Spanish-speakers represented 19.2% of Orlando's population.
Orlando is the core city of the Orlando-Kissimmee, Florida, Metropolitan Statistical Area, colloquially known as "Greater Orlando" or "Metro Orlando".
In 2000, the populace of Orlando's urban region was 1,157,431, making it the 3rd-largest in Florida and the 35th-largest in the United States.
As of 2009, the estimated Urban Area populace of Orlando is 1,377,342.
When Combined Statistical Areas were instituted in 2000, Orlando was initially joined together with The Villages, Florida, Micropolitan Statistical Area, to form the Orlando-The Villages, Florida, Combined Statistical Area.
In 2006, the urbane areas of Deltona (Volusia County) and Palm Coast (Flagler County) were added to problematic the Orlando-Deltona-Daytona Beach, Florida, Combined Statistical Area. This new larger CSA has a total populace (as of 2007) of 2,693,552, and includes three of the 25 fastest-growing counties in the country Flagler rates 1st; Osceola, 17th; and Lake, 23rd. See also: List of Florida companies and List of notable companies in Orlando, Florida Orlando is a primary industrial and hi-tech center.
Orlando has the 7th-largest research park in the country, Central Florida Research Park, with over 1,025 acres (4.15 km2).
Other notable engineering firms have offices or labs in Metro Orlando: KDF, General Dynamics, Harris, Mitsubishi Power Systems, Siemens, Veritas/Symantec, multiple USAF facilities, Naval Air Warfare Center Training Systems Division (NAWCTSD), Delta Connection Academy, Embry Riddle Aeronautical University, GE, Air Force Agency for Modeling and Simulation (AFAMS), U.S.
Numerous office complexes for large corporations have popped up along the Interstate 4 corridor north of Orlando, especially in Maitland, Lake Mary and Heathrow.
Orlando is close enough to Patrick Air Force Base, Cape Canaveral Air Force Station, and Kennedy Space Center for inhabitants to commute to work from the city's suburbs.
Orlando is the home base of Darden Restaurants, the parent business of Olive Garden and Long - Horn Steakhouse, and the biggest operator of restaurants in the world by revenue.
Modeling, simulation, and training (MS&T) trade is centered on the Orlando region as well, with a especially strong existence in the Central Florida Research Park adjoining to University of Central Florida (UCF).
Nearby Full Sail University, positioned in Winter Park, draws new-media students in the areas of video game design, film, show production, and computer animation, among others, its graduates spawning a several start-ups in these fields in the Orlando area.
Orlando has two non-profit hospital systems: Orlando Health and Florida Hospital.
Orlando Health's Orlando Regional Medical Center is home to Central Florida's only Level I trauma center, and Winnie Palmer Hospital for Women and Babies and Florida Hospital Orlando have the area's only Level III neonatal intensive care units.
Orlando's medical leadership will be further advanced with the culmination of University of Central Florida's College of Medicine, a new VA Hospital and the new Nemours Children's Hospital, which will be positioned in a new medical precinct in the Lake Nona region of the city. Historically, the unemployment rate in Greater Orlando was low, which resulted in expansion that led to urban sprawl in the encircling area and, in combination with the United States housing bubble, to a large increase in home prices.
Metro Orlando's unemployment rate in June 2010 was 11.1 percent, was 11.4 percent in April 2010, and was about 10 percent in about the same time of year in 2009. As of August 2013, the area's jobless rate was 6.6 percent. Housing prices in Greater Orlando went up 37.08% in one year, from a median of $182,300 in November 2004 to $249,900 in November 2005, and eventually peaked at $264,436 in July 2007.
See also: List of amusement parks in Greater Orlando and List of Orlando, Florida attractions One of the chief driving forces in Orlando's economy is its tourism trade and the town/city is one of the dominant tourism destinations in the world.
Nicknamed the 'Theme Park Capital of the World', the Orlando region is home to Walt Disney World Resort, Universal Orlando Resort, and Sea - World Orlando.
The Orlando region features 7 of the 10 most visited infamous parks in North America (5 of the top 10 in the world), as well as the 4 most visited water parks in the U.S. The Walt Disney World resort is the area's biggest attraction with its many facets such as the Magic Kingdom, Epcot, Disney's Hollywood Studios, Disney's Animal Kingdom, Typhoon Lagoon, Blizzard Beach, and Disney Springs.
Sea - World Orlando is a large park that features various zoological displays and marine animals alongside an amusement park with roller coasters and water park.
Universal Orlando, like Walt Disney World, is a multi-faceted resort comprising Universal Studios Florida, Islands of Adventure, Volcano Bay, and Universal City - Walk.
Orlando is known as "Hollywood East" because of various movie studios in the area.
Probably the most famous film-making moment in the city's history occurred with the implosion of Orlando's previous City Hall for the movie Lethal Weapon 3.
Orlando is now a large manufacturing center for tv shows, direct-to-video productions, and commercial production. In early 2011, filmmaker Marlon Campbell constructed A-Match Pictures and Angel Media Studios; a multimillion-dollar film and recording facility that has been added to the list of primary studios in the city. A Florida state film incentive has also helped increase the number of films being produced in Orlando and the rest of the state.
The Orlando Metropolitan Area is home to a substantial theater population.
Several experienced and semi-professional homes and many improve theaters include the Central Florida Ballet, Orlando Ballet, Orlando Shakespeare Theater, Orlando Repertory Theatre, Mad Cow Theatre, and Ice - House Theatre in Mount Dora.
The Orlando International Fringe Theater Festival, which draws touring companies from around the world, is hosted in various venues over Orlando's Loch Haven Park every spring.
At the festival, there are also readings and fully staged productions of new and unknown plays by small-town artists. Also in the spring, there is The Harriett Lake Festival of New Plays, hosted by Orlando Shakespeare Theater. Founded in 2002, the Orlando Cabaret Festival showcases local, national, and internationally famous cabaret artist to Mad Cow Theatre in Downtown Orlando each spring. A substantial amount of the teenage and young adult populations identify as being goth, emo, or punk. Orlando experienced the Second Summer of Love between 1991 and 1992 that popularized the subculture encircling electronic dance music in Florida. The culture progressed as time went on, starting in 1995 from when alternative-rock band Matchbox Twenty, and pop bands NSync and Backstreet Boys originated.
The Florida Mall is the biggest mall in Orlando and one of the biggest single-story malls in the USA at over 1,849,000 sq ft (171,800 m2).
Orlando Fashion Square is the nearest indoor shopping mall to Downtown Orlando and one of the first to open in the city.
Scenes were also filmed for Transformers: Dark of the Moon at the Orlando International Airport in early October 2010. Orlando is also the town/city very prominently featured in the ABC sitcom Fresh Off The Boat.
Main article: Sports in Orlando, Florida Orlando City SC Soccer MLS Orlando City Stadium 32,847 2015 0 Orlando Pride Soccer NWSL Orlando City Stadium N/A 2016 0 Orlando Magic Basketball NBA Amway Center 16,785 1989 0 Orlando Solar Bears Ice Hockey ECHL Amway Center 6,209 2012 0 Orlando is the home town/city of two primary league experienced sports squads the Orlando Magic of the National Basketball Association (NBA), and Orlando City SC of Major League Soccer (MLS).
Orlando also has two minor league experienced teams the Orlando Solar Bears ECHL ice hockey team and the Orlando Anarchy of the Women's Football Alliance.
Orlando also hosts the University of Central Florida (UCF) Knights college athletics teams, which compete in Division I of the National Collegiate Athletic Association (NCAA) as a member of the American Athletic Conference (The American).
The initial Orlando Solar Bears were part of the International Hockey League winning the last Turner Cup championship in 2001, before the league folded.
From 1991 to 2016, they town/city was also home to the Orlando Predators of the Arena Football League.
Starting in 2017, they will be sharing Orlando City Stadium with Orlando City.
The town/city has hosted the NBA All-Star Game twice: in 1992 at the old Orlando Arena, and in 2012 at the current Amway Center.
In addition, Orlando also hosted the 2015 ECHL All-Star Game at Amway Center.
Orlando is also the host town/city for the annual Florida Classic, one of the biggest FCS football classics in the nation.
Orlando was also home to the Orlando Renegades of the United States Football League in 1985.
Orlando is home to many notable athletes former and present, including baseball players Carlos Pena, Frank Viola, Ken Griffey, Jr.
Main article: List of mayors of Orlando, Florida Some of the private schools include Orlando Lutheran Academy, Forest Lake Academy, The First Academy, Trinity Preparatory School, Lake Highland Preparatory School, Bishop Moore High School and Orlando Christian Prep.
Belhaven University, Orlando Campus De - Vry University, Orlando ground Everest University, Orlando ground Florida Institute of Technology, Orlando ground Keiser University, Orlando Campus Nova Southeastern University, Orlando ground Palm Beach Atlantic University, Orlando Campus Strayer University, Orlando ground The Orlando Hoshuko, a weekend supplementary school for Japanese children, is held at the Lake Highland Preparatory School in Orlando. See also: List of newspapers in Florida, List of airways broadcasts in Florida, and List of tv stations in Florida Orlando is the center of the 19th-largest media market in the United States as stated to Nielsen Media Research as of the 2010 11 TV season. Three primary network affiliates operate in the city: WKMG-TV 6 (CBS), WFTV 9 (ABC) and Fox O&O WOFL 35.
WFTV and WOFL operate additional stations in Orlando, with WFTV operating autonomous station WRDQ 27 and WOFL operating My - Network - TV O&O WRBW 65.
The town/city is also served by three enhance tv stations: WUCF-TV 24, the market's PBS member station directed by the University of Central Florida, and two autonomous stations: Daytona State College's WDSC-TV 15 in New Smyrna Beach and Eastern Florida State College's WEFS 68 in Cocoa.
Bright House operates News 13, a cable-exclusive county-wide 24/7 news channel which covers Central Florida news, including that of Orlando.
25 AM and 28 FM stations transmit to the Orlando area.
Some of the country's biggest airways broadcast owners have primary presences in Orlando, including i - Heart - Media, Cox Communications, and CBS Radio.
Orlando's major newspaper, the Orlando Sentinel, is the second-largest journal in Florida by circulation.
Orlando uses the Lynx bus fitness as well as a downtown bus service called Lymmo.
The Orlando International Airport (MCO) is Orlando's major airport and the second-busiest airport in the state of Florida closely behind Miami International Airport.
The Orlando Sanford International Airport (SFB) in close-by suburb of Sanford, Florida serves as a secondary airport for the region and is a focus town/city airport for Allegiant Air.
The Orlando Executive Airport (ORL) near Downtown Orlando serves primarily executive jets, flight training schools, and general small-aircraft aviation.
Orlando, like other primary cities, experiences gridlock and traffic jams daily, especially when commuting from the northern suburbs in Seminole County south to downtown and from the easterly suburbs of Orange County to Downtown.
Orlando is the second-largest town/city served by one interstate, preceding Austin, Texas, and is the biggest urbane region in the US serviced by a single interstate.
The interstate begins in Tampa, Florida and travels northeast athwart the midsection of the state directly through Orlando, ending in Daytona Beach.
As a key connector to Orlando's suburbs, downtown, region attractions, and both coasts, I-4 generally experiences heavy traffic and congestion.
The highway intersects with I-4 in Downtown Orlando, providing a key artery for inhabitants commuting from easterly and suburbs including the University of Central Florida and Waterford Lakes area.
Toll Florida 528.svg Beachline Expressway (Toll 528) provides key access to the Orlando International Airport and serves as a gateway to the Atlantic coast, specifically Cocoa Beach and Cape Canaveral.
Toll Florida 417.svg Central Florida Greenway (Toll 417) is a key highway for East Orlando, the highway is also managed by the Central Florida Expressway Authority and serves as Orlando's easterly beltway.
Toll Florida 429.svg Daniel Webster Western Beltway (Toll 429) serves as Orlando's beltway.
The highway serves as a "back entrance" to Walt Disney World from Orlando's northwestern suburbs including Apopka via Florida's Turnpike.
Toll Florida 414.svg John Land Apopka Expressway (Toll 414) A new east to west tollway serving northern Orlando.
Florida's Turnpike Florida's Turnpike (Toll 91) is a primary highway that joins northern Florida with Orlando and terminates in Miami.
The Orlando region is served by one through barns .
Amtrak intercity passenger rail service operates from the Orlando Amtrak Station south of downtown.
Amtrak's Silver Meteor and Silver Star service Orlando four times daily, twice bound for points north to New York City and twice bound for points south to Miami.
Orlando Station has the highest Amtrak ridership in the state, with the exception of the Auto Train depot positioned in close-by Sanford. Historically, Orlando's other primary barns stations have included: Atlantic Coast Line Railroad Orlando station (now Church Street Station, a commercial development) Seaboard Air Line Railroad Orlando station (Central Avenue Station; 1898 1955.) The service is expected to substantially reduce traffic congestion along the I-4 corridor, especially between Downtown Orlando and the suburban communities in Seminole and Volusia Counties.
Phase I of the rail fitness runs from De - Bary to Sand Lake Road in South Orlando.
Phase II, which isn't expected to be instead of until 2016, will connect from De - Bary and continue north to De - Land, as well as extend from Sand Lake Road in Orlando south to Poinciana.
Attempts to establish a lesser light rail service for the Orlando region were also considered at one time,[when?] but were also met with much resistance.
On January 28, 2010, President Barack Obama said that Florida would be receiving $1.25 billion to start the assembly of a statewide high-speed rail fitness with Orlando as its central hub.
The first stage would have connected Orlando and Tampa, Florida and was expected to be instead of by 2014.
The Orlando Greyhound Station is positioned west of Downtown Orlando.
In downtown Orlando, taxis can be hailed on a regular basis.
Taxis are also available in and around the Amway Center, Orlando Convention Center, and all primary attractions/theme parks (i.e., Universal Studios, Disney World, etc.).
Transportation between the Orlando International Airport and various locations in and around Orlando are provided by airport shuttle services.
Main article: List of citizens from Orlando, Florida Orlando has nine global sister metros/cities as listed by the City of Orlando Office of International Affairs. Given Orlando's status as a busy global tourist destination and burgeoning industrial and commercial base, there are a several foreign consulates and honorary consulates in Orlando including Argentina, Colombia, Czech Republic, Haiti, Mexico, Switzerland, the Netherlands, and the Ivory Coast.
As a result, Orlando now has the second-highest number of foreign consulates in Florida next to Miami. The British Government directed a Consulate from 1994 to 2014 when all services transferred to the British Consulate General in Miami. Distance calculated from Orlando City Hall to nearest Atlantic coastline, near Oak Hill, Brevard County, and nearest Gulf coastline, near, Pine Island, Hernando County, using Google Earth's Ruler tool.
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