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Tallahassee, Fla:
Florida is moving ahead with its goal of landing federal stimulus money to help build a high speed rail line from Tampa to Orlando and eventually Miami.
The Florida Department of Transportation is working on an application for the cash right now and plans to submit it to the feds this week.
The stimulus package includes an initial $8 billion for passenger rail in the United States. Florida is considered a leading contender for some of that money because it has already done a lot of work developing such a system.
About 90 miles of right-of-way for the tracks is mostly secured between Tampa and Orlando. Trains would run along the median of Interstate 4.
Slater Bayliss, who helped lead the successful campaign repealing Florida’s high speed rail amendment in 2004, says good things come to those who wait.
Bayliss says the state would not have been able to afford the sprawling system proposed five years ago, but the prospects of building a smaller rail line with federal help are much better now.
The state is seeking about $2.5 billion for the Tampa-to-Orlando leg and has already invested more than $1 billion in securing right-of-way for the line.
Logical idea,Mischief. That,in itself,will probably disqualify it in the minds of our inept elected officials.
A rail system that serves the east/west I 10 corridor linking with the north/south Amtrack system would be much better.
Florida needs high speed rail and this is exciting news for a deal we thought was gone may be reality soon. Kudos to the State for moving ahead on this effort.
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why don’t they just put a free ferry in from cuba and mexico then they would not have to stop in the panhandle on their way through,,,this is another bridge to no where,,,thanks charlie