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The wheels are greased to push the CSX deal through the Florida Legislature this spring, no matter the enormous costs for citizens.
$1.2 Billion Takes Just 3,600 Cars Off I-4
- The rail line doesn’t go to key places, like the airport, Walt Disney World, the convention center, International Drive or the University of Central Florida. The route didn't come about because it was the best option. It came about because CSX offered to sell a portion of its A-line around Orlando.
- The line expects only 3,600 riders its first year and only 10,700 a day in 2030 -- a fraction of today's 170,000 daily car trips on I-4. A local economic-development group says the deal would significantly add truck congestion to Interstate 4. The lack of relief for I-4 congestion is one reason why the Federal Transit Administration said that when it came to making the case, this project rated LOW.
- To get the money, in 2005 the Department of Transportation delayed highway projects for two years in every district of Florida but one – Orlando’s. Click here to see the projects deferred in your area.
- The deal was struck in secret, and influenced by people with close ties to the railroad. Perhaps as many as 70 people, who are supposed to represent taxpayers, were forced to sign confidentiality agreements. A majority of lawmakers, including Sen. Mike Fasano, who chairs the Committee on Transportation and Economic Development Appropriations, didn't know about the deal until former Gov. Jeb Bush announced negotiations were finalized.
- Central Floridians argue that paying a 30-year debt service (total: $340 million) on a rail corridor owned by the state is unfair. They want the state to pay for this infrastructure, just as it pays for Interstate 4. The four counties will have to pay even if the project fails or the agreement is terminated. There’s also debate about whether it’s constitutional to force taxpayers in four counties to pay the bond on an economic-development facility in a fifth county -- Polk.
- The deal helps Orlando by getting freight trains out of downtown and into northern and western counties. But never did citizens of Lakeland, Auburndale, Bartow, Mulberry, Ocala, Plant City and Wildwood have a say about this freight super-railway.
- In Lakeland, the freight super-railway will bisect a charming, redeveloped downtown. The tracks separate emergency medical providers from the nearest hospital. When one of 16 current daily trains breaks down – not an infrequent occurrence – pedestrians must climb between train cars to cross the street.
- The state agreed to put the Winter Haven hub next to a residential area whose citizens were given no say about the dramatic change in their quality of life. Besides more freight trains, the hub expects to put more than 1,500 trucks a day onto area roads.
- Supporters say the railroad only wants to increase – from 16 to 20 – the number of freight trains running through Florida’s inland communities. But the route already has that capacity.
Why does CSX seek capacity for 54 trains a day, when it already has capacity for 27 trains a day, and says it only wants to increase frequency from 16 to 20 trains a day?
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