Per the Orlando Sentinel:
http://www.orlandosentinel.com/news/local/breakingnews/os-xway-train-negotiations-20130401,0,2357080.story?obref=obinsite (http://www.orlandosentinel.com/news/local/breakingnews/os-xway-train-negotiations-20130401,0,2357080.story?obref=obinsite)
Questions about who would pay for what if there were an accident are holding up talks between Metro Orlando's road agency and the would-be builders of a $1.5 billion train system.
Officials at the Orlando Orange County Expressway Authority said Monday that they want to be sure the agency does not have to bear much, if any, responsibility if there is a collision on the BeachLine Expressway it owns between a car and the All Aboard Florida train.
"We need to be sure the risk is not ours or all ours," said attorney Steve Zucker, a consultant going over the proposed contract for the authority.
All Aboard Florida, based in Coral Gables, wants to be running by 2015. It is seeking land along the BeachLine owned jointly by the authority and the state Department of Transportation. The privately financed train would run from South Florida to Orlando International Airport.
The state and Orlando agency are willing to lease the land along the southern edge of the road for 99 years at little or no cost to All Aboard. But Zucker said they need a resolution on what is called indemnification. Until then, no deal.
The authority hopes to schedule more talks, officials said, but they may not take place until May, when a three-member committee involved in the agreement meets again.
Don Robinson, president and chief operating officer of All Aboard Florida, did not discuss the authority's fears of a wreck in an email, saying only, "We continue to have productive negotiations with OOCEA."
A sister company of All Aboard Florida, Florida East Coast Railway, already owns a set of tracks that stretch from Miami to Jacksonville. All Aboard Florida would have largely unfettered use of those tracks, which now carry 10 freight trains daily.
The BeachLine connects Orlando with Cocoa.
[horshack] oooh! ooh! oooh! How about a wall between the road and the tracks? [/horshack]
BULL SHIT! Hell, I'm more worried over a shipment of nuke's falling out of a C-130 and taking out Disney! Um? NOT! How much safer is modern rail compared to their holy highway? Let me count the ways... These Beachline guys are a clown act.
I thought this corridor was to include grade separated crossings? How else would a car hit the train? Maybe getting airborn after overdoing their 200 shot of nitrous during a highway road race?
^Just the typical negotiating process. I'm confident they'll come to an agreement and continue moving forward.
Yeah, I figured that. It just amazes me how the media spins things and creats "issues" out of things that are very routine.