High Speed Rail Future Uncertain
January 6th, 2011 by Mike Vasilinda
The future of high speed rail in Florida is once again up in the air. Federal stimulus money will pay for 90 percent of a proposed system between Orlando and Tampa, but Governor Rick Scott says he wants to know more before signing off on the deal.
“There’s a feasibility study that’s supposed to come out that’s going to give me more information, I think it’s in February. So, at that point I want to go through and see what the feasibility is, what the actual cost to the state will be. I also want to sit down with the companies that possibly want to run this and see which ones of them want to fund things if there are going to be any operating losses” says Scott.
One of former Governor Jeb Bush’s first acts in 1999 was to cancel a plan for high speed rail. A citizen’s campaign then passed an amendment, but Bush also led the successful effort to repeal the amendment.
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