But if voters go for the idea in the Nov. 7 elections, Florida would be compelled to build the largest public-works project in its 181-year-old history. An estimated 50 acres or two million sf of right-of-way land would be needed for the system.
Worse, say state road officials, the $5-billion enterprise would decimate Gov. Jeb Bush's planned 10-year, $2.5 billion transportation improvement program for state-wide communities.
The bullet train proposal has been in the wings for at least 10 years. The idea never got off the ground because no private developer could ever calculate how to pay for the job.
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