Mayor Buddy Dyers of Orlando
Mayor Buddy Dyers of Oraland was greatly concerned about growth in Orlando and improving transportation such as rail. He has meet with Secretary of Transportation, Ray LaHood, about a high speed rail line in Central Florida. This good news would, of course, create more union jobs.
The bad news is the federal government will only work with states and cities that already have a commuter system like SunRail and Tri-Rail.
Commuter Rail in Florida
The Florida Department of Transportation (FDOT), in cooperation with the federal government and local officials in Orange, Seminole, Volusia and Osceola counties and the city of Orlando, is advancing SunRail, a commuter rail transit project that will run along a 61-mile stretch of existing rail freight tracks in the four-county area.
The 31-mile first phase of SunRail would serve 12 stations, linking DeBary to Orlando. Phase II would serve 5 additional stations, north to DeLand and south to Poinciana. Service is expected to begin in 2011 - just as FDOT is expected to start a major I-4 reconstruction project through the heart of Central Florida.
Tri-Rail already links Miami, Fort lauderdale and Palm Beach. According to Wikipedia, Florida High Speed Rail is a proposed high-speed rail network in Florida. Funding for the system was authorized by a 2000 referendum of Florida voters but repealed by 64% of Florida voters in a 2004 referendum.
The first phase, planned for completion in 2009, would have connected Orlando to Tampa, with a later extension to St. Petersburg. Later phases might have extended the network to Miami, Fort Myers, Jacksonville, Tallahassee and Pensacola.Some have argued that the wording on the 2004 referendum was misleading.
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