Another push for SunRail

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Florida Senate Democratic Leader Al Lawson, D-Tallahassee, and Florida House Democratic Leader Franklin Sands, D-Weston, called on the Republican leaders to work toward securing more than 2.5 billion in funding for SunRail and other rail projects.

Last year, the bill cleared the House but died in the Senate when staunch opposition led by Sen. Paula Dockery, R-Lakeland, brought it down on the floor. Earlier this year, a similar measure passed its only House Committee but again got held up in the Senate.

In October, talk of a special session began as Atwater said the federal government was looking for action on other rail projects in Florida before it considers approving the states $2.5 billion application for the first leg of the long proposed Tampa-Orlando-Miami bullet train.


Central Floridas top transportation priority is SunRail, said Harold Barley. He is the executive director for Metroplan Orlando, the Central Florida transportation planning organization. He is the Denise of the Central Florida TPO. Denise Bunnewith is the North Florida TPO executive director.Florida is moving forward someone said.

He launched a PowerPoint presentation. The first slide was of a donkey pulling a street car over tracks laid in a dirt road in what appeared to be a rural setting. Isn't it all about choices

State legislators pushing for SunRail are in the process of gathering support should a special session be called in the coming weeks.

Florida future is important.

LeMieux said for the state to receive federal funding, it had to show it was willing to pass SunRail in Tallahassee.