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To: driftdiver
Really? Cause we already have Amtrak and there aint been much economic growth because of it.

That's because in recent decades, Florida's population and tourist industry growth have largely been fueled by highway and airport subsidies. But now that approach has become obsolete, and Florida's tourist industry risks strangulation from highway and air traffic congestion, not to mention destruction of tourist beaches and the seafood industries due to the oil addiction of highway and airline industries.

Florida needs to deploy modern energy efficient passenger rail systems as rapidly as possible or risk smothering in their own waste.

84 posted on 07/26/2010 10:44:32 AM PDT by Willie Green ("Some people march to the beat of a different drum - and some people polka")
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To: Willie Green

‘Florida needs to deploy modern energy efficient passenger rail systems as rapidly as possible or risk smothering in their own waste.”

Really wow, and here I thought people were moving out of Florida.

You still haven’t explained how these trains (even the Tampa one) will be economically viable? A $30 ticket will not encourage people to ride the train.

So how will these trains be economically viable.


86 posted on 07/26/2010 11:07:28 AM PDT by driftdiver (I could eat it raw, but why do that when I have a fire.)
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