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On February 16, 2011, Governor Rick Scott formally announced that he would reject federal funds to construct the project, attempting to kill Florida High-Speed Rail. On March 4, 2011, the Florida Supreme Court unanimously turned down the request of two state senators to force Scott to accept federal funding for the project.
The Corridor Identification and Development Program, abbreviated as the Corridor ID Program, is a comprehensive planning program for inter-city passenger rail projects in the United States administered by the Federal Railroad Administration (FRA) under the 2021 Infrastructure Investment and Jobs Act (IIJA). Each route accepted into the program ...
On January 18, 2013, U.S. Department of Transportation Secretary Ray LaHood announced that M-1 Rail would receive $25 million in federal grant support for the streetcar project. [ 20 ] [ 21 ] [ 27 ] He had previously committed to the funds on the condition that a regional transit authority was created for the Detroit area. [ 28 ]
Eleven years have passed since President Barack Obama landed in Tampa with the promise of a gift that could transform Central Florida: a federally funded high-speed rail line to Orlando. Not a ...
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The Florida Department of Transportation was preparing to build a high-speed rail between Tampa, Lakeland, and Orlando. This would have been the first phase of the Florida High Speed Rail system. Soil work began in July 2010 with the federal government expecting full construction to begin in 2011.
The project, a conversion of about six miles of abandoned railway running parallel to Ludlam Road in West Miami-Dade into a lushly landscaped trail for people on foot and on bikes, is today barely ...