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Bullet Train Ballot Item Bothers State Road Experts

ORLANDO-If voters approve the $5-billion, four-city, high-speed rail network, 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 alone would be needed for the system.

By Alex Finkelstein | Updated on October 09, 2000

ORLANDO-It’s a bizarre scenario. A proposed $5-billion high-speed rail network, linking Orlando, Tampa, St. Petersburg and Miami is being touted as a magnet that would attract unprecedented commercial real estate activity and trigger equally unprecedented economic growth for the entire state.

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.

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