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Metro
Orlando
Transportation
AIR Orlando International Airport Rankings
and Service:
• Orlando International Airport (OIA)
is one of the fastest growing major airports in the country
• OIA provides service to more
major U.S. destinations than most other cities in the U.S.
• Of the 30.8 million passengers
served by the OIA in 2000, 2.5 million were international travelers
• Covers an area of almost 15,000
acres, the third largest airport, in terms of land area, in the U.S.
• Orlando has schedule non-stop
service to 69 U.S. destinations, more destinations than any other
airport in Florida
• More than 1,000 daily flights to
all major cities, including direct international service
• Over 80,000 passengers use the
award-winning airport daily
Highways
• Interstate 4 (I-4)
• Florida Turnpike
• Beeline Expressway (S.R. 528)
• East/West Expressway (S.R. 408)
• Central Florida GreeneWay (S.R.
417) . Named one of the nation's ten "Top Roads" by the
American Automobile
Association.
• U.S. 441
• U.S. 17/92
• U.S. 27
• S.R. 19
• S.R. 50
Ports
• Port Canaveral (Atlantic Ocean/40
miles east of Orlando/Channel Depth of 45 feet)
• Port of Tampa (Gulf of Mexico/84
miles southwest of Orlando/Channel Depth of 34 feet)
• Port of Sanford (St. Johns
River/20 miles north of Orlando/Channel Depth of 12 feet)
Public Transit
Lynx
• Serves Orange, Osceola
and Seminole Counties. An area of approximately 2,00 square miles
with a resident population of more than 1.3 million people
• 208 coaches easily recognized by
the "Moveum of Art"
• Ridership since 1992 has doubled
to more than 19 million passengers annually
• Lynx earned the Public
Transportation Company of the Year from the American Public Transit
Association in 1998 for the second time in three years
• Lynx buses travel more than 10
million miles each year
Lymmo
• The Downtown Orlando bus
circulator carries an average of 4,000 passengers per week
• 10 coaches easily recognized by
the "Moveum of Art" displayed on each coach
• Free ridership along a three-mile
loop in the heart of Downtown Orlando
• Eighty percent of all public
parking facilities in Downtown Orlando are located within one block
of the Lymmo system
• Eleven lighted and computerized
Lymmo Stations and eight additional stops
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