I believe in mass transit. Congestion in Florida is a serious issue, and our auto-dominated land-use policies need reform. Investing in rail is one good idea, but it seems so difficult in this state to create meaningful change in a way that doesn't involve crony capitalism.
Noticeably absent is any outrage from the right on this.Florida Department of Transportation is prepared to dole out$795 million in state money - $432 million to CSX for acquisition of its A Line and to make improvements on CSX's other Florida tracks.
Meanwhile, local governments in Orange, Volusia, Seminole and Osceola counties are on tap to kick in another $764 million toward the project. Add to that hundreds of millions in federal matching money, and start-up and operational costs, and the state DOT's own estimate for the total tab for getting SunRail up and going comes in at about $2.6 billion.
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