SunRail-CSX deal supporters vow to try a third time — just don’t yet know how
May 8, 2009 at 6:48 am by Wayne Garcia
The controversial Orlando light rail plan, known as SunRail or the CSX deal to opponents, just won’t die. Today’s Orlando Sentinel is reporting that the city’s mayor, Buddy Dyer, is vowing that “nothing is off the table” when it comes to trying to figure out how to resurrect the twice-killed plan.
The leading idea?
Find another way to get liability protection for CSX, which would sell 61.5 miles of track to for passenger transit. That could allow backers to bypass the Florida Senate.
The Sentinel reports:
U.S. Rep. John Mica, R- Winter Park, said there are “different places to get liability, to get support,” but he would not elaborate. Mica and U.S. Rep. Corrine Brown, D-Jacksonville, have promised to deliver? $308 million in federal funding for SunRail, if an insurance deal is reached.
“This is important to the community,” [supporter Sen. Lee] Constantine said. “Yes, it lost in the Senate. But there’s always different ways to skin a cat.”
