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The high speed rail amendment in Florida was killed by overwhemling majority
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[quote]QUOTE: <i>Originally posted by passengerfan</i> <br /><br />When I-95 reaches gridlock and their up to their butts in alligators on either side maybe they will reconsider once again. California is just waiting for a final decision on High Speed rail and I don't think Californians will make the same mistake. The problem we are faced with now is witch route to take and should it serve more of the valley than at presentently proposed. The State Capital at Sacramento should be served and the proposed routing would only serve Sacramento about six years after the main route is completed. Florida voters will live to regret the decision as the price of interstate expansion will be far more than a high speed rail line and serve less people. Interstates have a tendancy to fill with traffic no matter how many lanes are added. High Speed rail can serve far more people than two extra lanes of interstate and their won't be any trucks on the HSR. <br />[/quote]AS a former state highway tech I can assure you that you are on very stable ground. But the trouble of it is: that the politicians that are in the hip pocket of the asphalt paving-automobile-trucking lobby that virtully owns the 50 states and their national government will work their hardest to keep that from changing and it will not change happen any time soon. That is if Nothin' don't happen.
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