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Scott Meets with Transportation Secretary

January 28th, 2011 by flanews

Florida Governor Rick Scott is in Washington DC tonight meeting with the Secretary of the Department of Transportation. The two will discuss high speed rail and shipping ports. Scott has been combing the globe looking for investors to pitch in 280 million dollars to fund the state’s portion of a three billion dollar rail system connecting Tampa to Orlando.

“My focus is making sure that I understand ridership studies; I understand what the costs are going to be and if the private sector is willing to step up on top of that and focus on our reports and the rest of our infrastructure, highways, things like that so we’ll have a broad discussion about all those issues,” said Scott.

If the state doesn’t come up with the money by September, the 2.4 billion dollars offered to Florida by the federal government for the project will go to another state.

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