Rail Opportunity? Wake Up Florida

[JeffreyS]

Amazing stat, there is not one rail project that brings in more than 30% of its costs. Staggering.

well there goes the Tea Party people and the lees-than-half-truths....Amtrak's Acela line actually makes a profit...and several public transit lines (like DC Metro) recoup 40% or more of operating costs.

but lets look at Florida's HSR route (just the Tampa - Orlando) part...it is expected the state would have to contribute around $300 million.....ridership is projected to be around 30,000 a day.....so, if we didn't build the rail and those people were instead in cars on I-4, we would have to widen it to 8 lanes....how much would that cost?

In the end, I think these DO NOTHING folks will be quite disappointed by the governing done by some of "their" newly elected officials.

More likely in the end the playoffs or something will come along and as soon as the job situation is normalized they will stop paying attention to anything not sponsored by Budweiser. Similar to the part time democrats who rallied for change.