Monday, October 19, 2009

Florida rising

In the race for a slice of the $8 Billion HSR pie, Florida is doing it's best to get a seat at the table. The Palm Beach Post has a good piece highlighting the benefit of passenger rail for the state as, "The synergy and relationships that can be established between universities and hospitals and biotech clusters are more successful when you don't have one- or two-hour delays."

This comes on the heels of Florida
Governor Charlie Crist endorsing State Senate President Jeff Atwater’s proposal to call a special session to fund commuter rail projects.

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2 Comments:

Blogger neroden@gmail said...

Should run one train from NYC to Tampa via Orlando, one train from NYC to Miami via the East Coast, and then see if there's still a use for a short train between Tampa and Orlando....

9:51 PM  
Blogger doulasc said...

When amtrak uses the FEC from W.Palm Beach to Jacksonville,will the route to Orlando lose amtrak service or will Amtrak still run a train on that route too as well.

10:46 AM  

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