BIG DOGS getting in FLA fight Scott in high speed "de-railment"

[nashville_brook]

US Dept of Transportation Secretary Ray LaHood meeting Friday with Florida elected officials to save rail project


http://www.orlandosentinel.com/news/politics/os-scott-rejects-rail-money-20110216,0,2863027.story

Florida's congressional delegation, state officials and Orlando Mayor Buddy Dyer are pushing back against Gov. Rick Scott's decision Wednesday to reject $2.4 billion in federal stimulus money to build a high-speed train between Orlando and Tampa.

"This is a century-type decision that needs to be vetted," Dyer said. "I don't think it was given a fair hearing."

U.S. Department of Transportation Secretary Ray LaHood intends to meet either in person or by phone Friday with Florida elected officials, likely including Democratic U.S. Sen. Bill Nelson and Reps. John Mica, R-Winter Park, and Corrine Brown, D-Jacksonville, to discuss ways of keeping the project alive even as California, New York and Washington state offered to take some of the money.

And some officials were bitterly critical of Scott for pulling the plug even before bids had gone out to build the 84-mile system. Eight consortia of companies from 11 countries had indicated they would be willing to put up some or all of the state's $280 million share of the project, while the bid terms would have required them to absorb cost overruns and any operating losses for 20 years.

[RagAss]

1. Scott is on a "High Speed" mission to destroy Florida.

[d_r]

2. dammit

I thought they were actually going to finally build the thing. At least the first part from Orlando to Tampa.

They have the land, it is going right up the median of the interstate. It isn't perfect - but this is a chance to get going on high speed rail. A start. A less than perfect start.


What a stupid backwards move from Scott. Son of a bitch.

[nashville_brook]

3. 24,000 good, white AND blue collar jobs -- killed by the teabagging shitface