The High Speed Rail Amendment passed in the last general election in Florida has just been nullified. I Guess we'll just go back to Jeb's plan to cover the entire state in asphalt and concrete.
I guess we (floridians) need to put out a petition like "derail the bullet train" did. We can attempt to get it back on the ballot again.Amtrak OBS Employee said:If I may add a bit of my opinion here, I am dissappointed with the fact this has been repealed, too. However, all this does is remove it from the state constitution as a mandatory undertaking. This doesn't mean the train still can't be built! It is just gonna make a bit tougher to get it started. We need to band together in a different fashion, and make it known to our governor and legislature that the we the citizens want high speed rail! I would be happy if there was any sort of rail infrastructure being proposed for our state. I would absolutely love it if we had something similar to the Northeast Corridor or California here in our great state of Florida!
The only way I see to make our state government "really" know what we want, is too take drastic action. And that is give us the results we are asking them to do, or we will vote them out and put those in office who will! The only way I see to do that is for all Floridians to unite on this matter! Sadly I don't see that happening that way anytime soon, if ever! I have never felt the train issue belonged in the state constitution, actually. But if that is what it takes, then when it appears again, I will support it (especially if Amtrak may be involved in some way)!
I know what your talking about. The originol plan for commuter rail was to have a DLD-KIS corridor and then a Northern corridor on FLCentral tracks. In deland they could build the commuter station off of the small branch line. That way the parking lot can be off of a major road.battalion51 said:I definitely think Commuter Rail service from at least Sanford (Deland would be great) down to Kissimmee would be great. As far as the airport is concerned, I would try to set up DMU's on the Stanton Spur out to the airport. Set up meets at the connection station just South of Taft Yard and you're set.
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